Awesome Dice

Add some flair to your tabletop gaming sessions with Dragonstone Gaming’s Prophecy Dice. This metal dice spinner is designed to look like a vintage pocket watch. Push and release its button and a random number appears on its dial. It combines seven dice and comes in a selection of finishes. The optional leather slipcase is an elegant touch.

We love the look of these handcrafted damascus steel dice. Metalsmith HANS shows us how he made them by forging and pressing steel ball bearings inside a tube, then slicing the metal into cubes, beveling their edges, then drilling pips into their sides. After heating and quenching them, a final sanding and bath brings out their beautiful crackled pattern.

The Karakuri Channel has made some amazing little mechanical gadgets and kinetic artworks. This video shows how they built a small but complicated machine that tosses dice onto a turntable. Once they land inside its ring, an arm clears the dice and sends them up an elevator to start the process over. (Turn captions on for English descriptions.)

These six-sided dice are precision-machined from various metals, including stainless steel, aluminum, copper, and gold-plated steel. They’re designed for perfect balance and fair gameplay. Price shown is for the base set of six dice with a matching metal display tray. Individual dice are also available, including upgrades to black zirconium and tungsten.

This oversized 6-sided die reminds us of those giant ones they toss on The Price Is Right. The 5.8-ounce, 2″ x 2″ x 2″ die is machined from a block of Ultem, a strong thermoplastic with a translucent amber hue. Best rolled on a rubber mat, carpet, or grass if you don’t want to mar your table. CountyComm is making only 200 of these, so grab ’em while you can.

The Cardyhedron offers a unique spin on dice, providing a complete set of tabletop gaming dice in a pocket-sized card. The metal card has six smooth-spinning dials, including d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, and d20. Just give a dial a spin and see what number it lands on. The cards will come in several colors and each includes a handsome leather carrying case.

Are you a devoted dungeon master? An avid tabletop gamer? Or maybe you just want to lighten up daily life by rolling dice for your choices and decisions? The D-20 wristwatch has you covered. It lets you roll virtual dice – from 4- to 20-sided – at the push of a button. It even highlights 1 and 20 hits on D20 rolls. It’s water-resistant and comes in three colors.

Slot Dice look and work like tiny mechanical slot machines. Pull the lever, and the central wheel spins and stops on a random number. They come in D4, D6, D8, D10, D12, D20, D100, and fortune teller variants, each in a different color. Available individually or in a full set at a special Kickstarter price.

If you dump a bunch of dice into a jar, they’ll just land in random positions. But if you jiggle the jar while spinning it, they will eventually work their way into orderly layers, filling in all the gaps. The Action Lab’s physics lesson explains the entropic forces at work that encourage objects to organize themselves.

What’ll ya have, Mack? Let Chronicle’s Cocktail Dice call the shots. Roll the three dice for your answer: one die is for liquors, one’s for mixers, and one’s for garnishes. With 216 possible combos, the fun is in the surprise. The 32-page booklet further helps customize your drink with what you have on hand.

Here’s an unconventional way to generate random numbers for board games. This unique gaming accessory packs a complete polyhedral dice set onto a zinc alloy wand. Instead of rolling these dice, you spin them, and the number is indicated by a blue pointer. In addition to the six dice on the wand, its spinning base functions as a D20.

These limited-run D6 dice from CountyComm are precision-machined from Ultem. This heat-resistant, translucent amber polymer is quickly becoming one of our favorite materials. It’s typically used to make products like circuit boards, aircraft parts, and eyeglass frames, but recently, it’s been turning up in EDC items like pens and compasses. Sold in pairs.

Yarro Studios’ mechanical dice spinner is a modern spin on a vintage gadget. Push its button, and its flywheels go spinning. Let go, and two random numbers appear in its windows. The Dice-o-Matic is made from aluminum and comes in D20/D20, D10/D10, D12/D8, D6/D4, and D6/D6 with pips. There’s also a Zoltar Dice-o-Matic decision-maker.

These limited-run six-sided dice from CountyComm are precision-machined from a lightweight, phosphorescent material that can glow for up to 24 hours. Like other glow-in-the-dark stuff, expose them to direct sunlight or a UV light source for the brightest and longest-lasting effect. They’re sold in sets of two.

Etsy shop Fever Dream Supreme makes this giant-size d20 for Dungeons and Dragons players. Each 10-inch, 5-pound die is handcrafted from whitewood and hot-branded numbers on its 20 sides. It makes a great display piece or a hidden storage box if you opt for the removable panel. Available with or without stain or numbers.

These unique dice from Aether Objects are made from cassette tapes. Each die has strips of vintage cassette tape preserved forever inside see-through resin. Their embossed numbers are painted with a vibrant yellow inspired by ’80s cassette graphics. Sold in a set of seven dice and packed in a cassette-style storage box.