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How To Check The Balance Of Your Dice | DIY Easy Trick
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2018
- A quick video on the DIY salt-water dice balance test. It's super easy, super fast and you can tell which dice are fair to use in your next dungeons and dragons or pathfinder game!
I used chessex dice when testing the weight, balance and spin of these dice. The clear dice seem to be the most FAIR dice to use, while the solid or swirly colored dice seem to not be 100% fair.
Dice like the ones shown are typically used in Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder or an infinite number of other tabletop games and RPGs.
If you want to learn how to make your own dice like I did in the video above, check out my playlist that shows how I made both the Gold Dice and the Skittles dice here!: • How to Make Your Own D...
If you like what you saw, gimme a like! Or even better, subscribe for some more content on DIYs RPGS and other nerdy crap.
Man, I think I kept seeing the same 20 numbers show up, those dice must be weighted.
Ahh crap, sometime life just throws a curve ball at ya
I wonder why....
oh! me small brain
Which is especially weird considering that it's a d8 :P
That's especially weird, because it was a D6.
I keep getting the same 10 numbers and not the good ones
DON'T DO THIS WITH YOUR FINGERS IF YOU HAVE A PAPER CUT!
Ahh, spoken with true experience in mind! haha :)
@@Rybonator Yup, one mistake that will never happen again.
PAIN APPEASES THE DICE GODS! YOUR LACK OF SACRIFICE WILL CURSE YOUR ROLLS!
I always find that you can wash out the salt with lemon juice.
(Don't fkin do that please!)
Blood for the blood god, salt for the dice god!
I used to have a secret designated "DMing dice" It rolled a lot of 1s. My players in that game were dumber than a box of rocks, often drunk, and made horribly inefficient characters (we were just there for the fun and laughs) so one of the ways I ensured they weren't constantly rerolling characters was to use the dunce die.
Preservation of fun! Love to see it.
that's really sweet oh my god
“I just, i like salt”
She is a poet with words.
Same
Marry her. Or marry her again. 😂
Right lol!!! You just know it was something random like that when they started dating and he was “yup imma marry that women”
I love how the wife at the end really quietly goes "no, I just,.,., I like,,, salt" like I properly cackled 😂😂😂
Ssshh, don't encourage her :P
I like salt too, no shame
@@Rybonator She likes a salty taste. Congratulations, my good sir 😉👍
@@MrBlack0950 i like salt to but that just makes me gag thinking about drinking that
@@hardwirecars no one said anything about drinking it
My copper dice kept sinking to the bottom. Should I assume they're unbalanced and keep landing on the heavy side? Also they're green now.
Lol I am going to assume this is for the funny, but in case it's not here is an answer!
Metal is far too heavy to check this way, and yeah... rust from saltware :( No fun.
Coat it in plastic and put it in mercury
@@Rybonator You were right to assume that.
Copper doesn't rust it. When it oxidizes it turns green. That's why pennies turn green and why the roof on the Canadian Parliament Hill are green.
Marikroyals copper oxidises with oxygen
The oxygen is taken out of the water with salt being a catalyst for the reaction
It might as well be rust
Show my dice have tendency to roll 20.. not exactly a problem... had me rolling
I mean... when life gives you lemons
Dice to use for important moments
@@antoniusbritannia8217 D&D is more fun with the looming chance of failure.
Had me rolling... 20s!
You must be pretty easily entertained lol
Now I know why I was having shit rolls. They killed my second character TWICE.
Oh dang, throw those dice in jail!
I see you watch Doormonster
Andrew Ender Frost don’t know what you mean. I was playing a cleric who died, his godess gave him a second chance, then got revived in a NPC monk character that had also recently died. My character THEN proceeded to die in the same session, due to making a pact with an evil god, and revived in his old body, half-demon zombie death knight.
Well, if they killed your second character twice, your cleric must have had resurrection prepared.
Andrew The Mighty well no, but actually, yes. My characters soul was put into a body of a recently deceased monk by my goddess to carry out my mission. Then I betrayed her to join up with her son, and was reborn as a death knight with a direct connection instead of the speaking in riddles and signs bullshit.
"You can test it on any dice that you want"
Me: *sweats nervously* I use metal dice
Lol Just use mercury instead. (Note: DO NOT DO THIS.)
Rybonator k I will
Instructions unclear, made a hat.
@@manthak377 The only possible response, 10/10
You’re gonna need a lot of salt
Locally sourced salt 😂
From his League of Legends team.
@@alcaz2924 I think he was getting at its salt from his tears because of low subscribers
@@buddyguy4723 you got 0, kid
@@giampaolomannucci8281 oh wow you're a very observant idiot. You do realize I was inferring the meaning of his joke in the video and explaining it right? yeah of course people who don't make videos don't have subscribers usually, just like you. Moron.
buddy guy speaking of salt🧂...
I checked the balance of my dice a few months ago, I'm glad to say my favorite sets (the borealis series from Chessex) are the most balanced sets I have ever owned. Nice to see a proper recipe for this besides "add salt".
Nice! Glad your favorites work so well :)
Thank you for this! My party has been rolling all over the place lately. Of all the saline tests, I think your video is one of the most straightforward. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Well hopefully this will get you back on track, or at least able to identify the cheaters! Intentional or otherwise. Glad you liked it :)
So? Were they cheating? Sorry for replying 1 year later lol
"i just like salt"
you know what lady... same
Y'all need those Salt Life stickers :)
I got this REALLY big D20 and unfortunately it turns out it’s weighted towards 1 :(
It’s still cool, but unfortunately I can’t actually use it...
Ahh dang that's no fun :/ Now if it were weighted towards the 20... totally viable haha
Use it as a life counter or just a display piece.
Use it for DMing where 1s are arguably more fun than 20s
Use it while DMing for NPCs that you want to have slightly higher chance of failing.
1s are pretty fun to roll! 2s are just boring
Nice way to know if you're getting hustled. I mean, I hope no one is, but nice way to check.
Had a lot of people asking how to check, and a lot of people at the local game store I go to talk about this since a bunch of people like to make dice!
No one:
TH-cam algorithm: how to weigh dice
How I got here.
No one:
TH-cam Algorithm: How to make and weigh dice!
My ambition due to living in a D&D/Pathfinder/Warhammer heavy hobby shop: DO IT!
The dice algorithm giveth and it taketh away haha :)
>how to check if your D&D dice are weighted
>Container of salt
Uh oh...
I just hold the dice it works because im very salty
@@daylenhigman8680 are you data?
I tested about a dozen sets of Chessex pearl/swirl style dice. Of the dozen I tested only two were balanced. Eight d20s rolled low (5 or lower). And the last two rolled middlin' numbers.
Of those sets, I knew I had bad 'luck' and dumped them all and I like aesthetically pleasing completes sets so had to replace a lot of dice. Recently I bought two sets of Halfsies brand dice (that's 2d20, and 4d6, as well as the rest of the dice) and have been super pleased with them. See, I don't mind rolling low numbers when they are mixed in with high numbers, and everything in between. :)
Nice! Glad you found a set that you enjoy :)
"YOU GAVE ME LOADED DICE!!"
(Please somebody recognize the reference)
I understood that reference
Hey El Dorado :)
James Willis, El Darodo
GUARDS ARREST HIM!
"HE GAVE ME LOADED DICE!!
GUARD! ARREST HIM!"
(^_^)
When your dice has only rolled on 15s 18s and 20s but your the player
"Oh noooo"
you're*
José Vargas “when you are dice”
Reagan Bui lol, there’s 2 “your”s in there
@@Rybonator what ever are you to doo. You would *never* roll those for important moments.
It doesn't seem like you're dissolving the salt, you might wanna heat the water beforehand, then mix in the salt, then cool it down, which will give you a properly dissolved salt solution without salt in suspension
Great tip! Much appreciated :)
Aka saline
more likely that the cloudy substance is anti-caking agent
Aka oversaturated solution. Finally i can apply my degree on chemistry in something D&D related.
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Ya know, I recently designed and built my own board game. Made a 3D version, diorama-style, and it's hella lit IMO. Only issue is I needed dice. So I found a pack of 30 dice at a dollar store...mistake 1. They are so poorly balanced, I never realised balance was an issue until this day. Then I bought loose dice at $2 a piece, thinking they'd be much more efficient. Incorrect; still a waste of money. I ended up using my Risk dice instead and just swapping out every time we play, because I'm not spending an absurd amount of money on something as basic as dice.
This video would have greatly helped me explain to my peers why I thought my first game with the cheap dice was accidentally rigged, and not me complaining about losing my first game of my own board game haha
Dude! Awesome! I've been looking into making my own dice... I was worried they'd end up unbalanced. Now I have a way to test them. Thx dude!
Happy to help Alex! :)
Thank you! This is the only video I found that actually works. No one else specified how much water or salt or at what temperature, and your recipe worked great for me.
This was the first video of yours I ever saw when I got my very first set of dice. I instantly subscribed and I've seen just about every video you made since!
Stared at the "Morten's" like "WTF?" Took me a second. Probably the funniest thing I've heard all day.
Haha Oh me and Morten go WAY back
Great video! We check out dices of members in tabletop wargame tournaments quite often here in Russia. There are plenty of smartasses who use modified or DIY dices with off-centred balance.
Ahh dang, gotta catch them cheaters!
I don't even play any kind of these games! The randomness of TH-cam's algorithm is the best!
Orrr, the universe is trying to tell you that you should start ;)
"isn't that a bit too much just for dice?" me:"you're dead to me"
Amen
If it's cloudy it means that you still have undissolved salt, so adding more salt will not increase the concentration and density of the salt water. If you add excess salt and give it a little time you will form a saturated solution with maximum density. If you want more density, you need to increase the temperature to dissolve more salt, or use a different material.
I was skeptical that there was actually anything wrong with using swirled plastic colored dice until I saw this. Your visual demonstration was really helpful!
(Thank you.)
P.S. Growing up, my mom was fascinated with seeing salt-licks hanging on rural livestock fences. On road trips, she would make us stop and go taste the salt. She loved them so much that she eventually bought one to put in our suburban flower garden. ...Naturally it killed the soil and flowers.
Glad I can help :) The difference is SUPER small, but it does exist.
My mom made us lick them too! Country bois unite haha
Y'all know those have already been licked by cows right? Cows that regurgitate cud? Idk I just don't jump to taste the last thing many other animals have licked lol
Fair enough, you earned my subscription and a thumbs up. To my defense youtube suggested me this video just now, it's my first video that I watch form you :). Keep it up pal ^^
Thanks for the sub and like :) Hopefully you enjoy the rest of the stuff on my channel!
My favorite dice are the better quality (but admittedly less pretty) Chessex opaque dice.
Instead of the lighter acrylic or epoxy resin used in a lot ot RPG dice, Chessex opaques are made of some sort of urea or phenolic resin (similar to Bakelite).
This gives the dice a nice heavy feel, and a satisfying 'clack' sound when they hit each other, but it also means they are too heavy to float in salt water.
Apparently you can use Epsom salts instead of table salt to get these dice to float, but I haven't gotten around to trying it yet.
Another common issue with dice, other than weight distribution, is dimensions. You should also measure your dice with calipers to ensure that no one diameter is significantly higher or lower than the others. an egg-shaped die will strongly tend to land along the widest horizontal axis.
True! Gotta make sure you have as accurate as can be :)
This and sharp edges (not round) are actually 100% more important than tiny imperfections in weight. You're not rolling your dice in salt water after all.
This is assuming the center of buoyancy in in the center of the dice, if the center of mass is in the center but center of buoyancy isn’t, then the test will still result in false alarms.
Fair enough, it does make that assumption :) That's why I try and adjust the salt content of the water, but yeah it can give off false alarms. The TRUE way to check it is to troll 10,000+ times on each one, but even then it could lead to false conclusions.
Rybonator you could try rolling it down a slope and use a slow motion camera to film the entire thing, if the centre of mass is off, it will have a higher moment of inertia (via parallel axis theorem) therefore resist rotation, so as long as you are using D20 or higher numbers, and as long as your dice is the same size and mass, the difference in angular velocity of the dice captured by the slow motion camera will tell you if it’s a good dice.
Thank you, I was looking for someone to point out the difference in buoyancy and mass. Just because dice float differently doesnt mean they will roll in a particular manner. Im not saying its impossible, but floating has different physics than rolling.
Your wife is a mood. Also, i like your humor. Subscribed.
Wait, what the heck is that +1 ring of bling you are wearing? YOU CAN’T HIDE IT! I GOT A 17 ON PERCEPTION AND YOU AREN’T TRYING TO HIDE IT!
It's an Aggie Ring :) Class of '16 Whoop!
Also my sleight of hand check was a 16 so you just BARELY beat it out!
Rybonator it would help if I had a higher perception, but I have this weird magic spell that lets me relive moments I have seen on my handheld spellbook. Yoo toob ;p
Love your vids and thank you for the response! I used to build sets for table top games like warhammer back in the day when I was much younger so I thoroughly enjoy seeing what you put together! (This vid also helps me understand my dive Kharma better :P)
Thank you for making quality work! Keep it up I will be tuning in from here on out for sure!
Lol the Yoo Toob got me :P
Glad you like my content :) That's awesome! I need to up my terrain skills, I've been so dice focused lately haha
Rybonator I used to play with a variety of flocking when it came to grass and moss. It really helped make things fuzzy :) it works really well for snow as well! That and I strait up went outside to get bits of moss for tiny little bushes. After a while they are fragile and break apart, but while they last they really add a nice effect! :)
Tried this with my die, and it just sank like a rock.
This is the first video i watched of you. Im going to watch all your videos.
Hope you like em :)
"Oh boy! I can't wait to test my dice!"
*Dice drop to the bottom*
👁👄👁
That explains why I get so salty about my rolls
Chloe Mcholoe Same lol. all my rolls suuuuuuckkkkkkk
Sorry is no one going to talk about how your salt container is "lite sale" and has 50% less sodium? Who the hell wants less salt in a product that is meant to be all salt lol. Makes so little sense.
I am just using it as a placebo effect form of salt... even though I know it has less "salt" in it haha.
Perhaps the same reason you buy 3-6% bleach
AnduRo you buy diluted bleach because pure bleach is way too extreme and way too dangerous. You don’t need pure bleach, you only need very diluted bleach for most purposes.
Typical table salt is Sodium-Chloride (NaCl). Doctor's used to tell patients with high blood pressure to reduce sodium intake and the most common switch was to use Potassium-Chloride (KCl), another form of salt, instead for salting food.
Morton's "lite salt" is probably a 50/50 mixture of NaCl and KCl.
Nowadays doctor's don't generally tell patients to reduce sodium intake for blood pressure (but may on depending on a patient's specific situation) but people that want to reduce sodium intake for other reasons can easily find KCl alternatives to NaCl in grocery stores.
but don't buy 50/50 antifreeze/water. that's just less antifreeze and overpriced water, ie, a *scam* always get pure antifreeze and add water to radiator to dilute it.
oh, and don't use it to check dice. (just a guess)
Thank you, for the informative video. Also, your wife is hilarious!
Of course!
Also sshh! Don't let her know that :p
Hmmn, finally something to clear up the miss conception about dice with the groups I have to work with.
Idk who Ms. Conception is, but yeah I hope this clears things up for you haha :P
@@Rybonator They turn every die "good side up" in hopes that the molecular movement and other stuff makes all the dice remember how to stop and other "magical" jumbo mumbo, they should know better?
@@EnraEnerato oh... Oh Lord lol. I guess it's like wearing your favorite team Jersey on game day, sitting at home. Whatever makes you happy :)
@@Rybonator Sometimes they do it when we are not yet done calculating the result (Star Wars Fantasy Flightgames dice with different symbol, D6, D5, d12), it's annoying when we are not yet done...
@@EnraEnerato oh gosh I bet
3:19 nice
How does the 1/3 cup of water (2.33 oz) need more or less salt depending on the size of the glass again?
^
It's about increasing the water's surface tension. Which is affected by the depth of the water in question. Which in turn is affected by the length, width, and height of the container the water is in.
@@clothar23 nope has Nothing to do with Tension, it is only about the water becomeing denser than the dice, so the dice floats like wood on water.
Absolutely maddening. Can't see anything, and he never lets them actually come to rest.
How to check if your dice are balanced
Step 1: break them open
Step 2: check for weights
If there are no weights, then congrats, your dice are balanced and you can get to rolling
Just buy double of each set so that you can open one, and roll the other :P /s
Wish I knew that before
I didn't want to waste the water after I checked my dice, so I drank it all. I feel really bad now... what should I do?
For a college project I rolled a set of dice, by hand, more than 10,000 times and recorded the result. I can say with confidence that minor imperfections in the balance have _no_ appreciable effect on the fairness of the dice in real world use. Checking your dice balance is pointless unless there's money on the line.
The algorithm has sent me and I bear likes for the video. Thank you good sir for this curious yet useful tip!
Does this take charging the dice into account?
Haha oh no, that's magic that you cannot account for.
that spoon sound was jarring. i had too do a double take it wasnt my pc breaking down XD
lol, gotta make sure you were paying attention!
I jumped up thinking someone was breaking into the house through my window lol
Great video, can't wait to test mine. Is there any type of "fix" if you notice one or two numbers coming up more frequently? Like sanding the opposite face to try to reduce the weight on that side? (Not that I think it really makes that much of a difference in the end...)
Honestly like you said, it's probably not that big of a difference. I plan on testing how much weight it takes to REALLY effect a dice roll in a future video.
But yeah that would probably take out some of the weight, but be careful, if you make the shape all wonky, that's no good too!
Good idea!
Thanks :)
id only expect this demonstrated from other people if i was gambling but id do it for my own dice in table-top gaming.
Nice and clear video with good info. Good job!
Thanks, I appreciate that :)
I had about 50 sets of Chessex dice. All of the swirly ones had air-bubbles in them. One set was so bad, that the D4 was basically hollow.
Oh dang, that's no bueno. But at least if you step on it, it will crumble instead of impale you! So, you know... you got that going for you.
@@Rybonator no see if he steps on that D4 it's an initial D8 in damage with a damage over time effect added for every step after the shard embeds itself in his foot
@@maladroit5581 also roll against an infection, against loosing your balance, and on self control for starting to scream.
@@ulrichkalber9039 oh and an instant loss of concentration for any spells
Gonna have to try with my huge bag of dice.
Go for it!
@@Rybonator so maybe I'm using the wrong salt or something, but all but 8 of my dice sank to the bottom. And none of them were the metallic looking kind. :(
My d20 has a tendency to roll 1, big fun.
I think what you're using is a different measurement from a tablespoon it looks about twice the size of one, hence the difference from your number to other recepies
This made me laugh a tad, because of the fact that since dice and nerd things in general are expensive af here, I bought a Wiz dice set (really cheap) instead of Chessex ones that costed double and lo and behold they don’t seem to be so good... Mine are clear too so I think that does help with the randomness
Hey well you lucked out on the purchase then :)
thanks dude, i got accused a lot of having weighted dice in my dnd game yesterday (even though i started rolling digital dice in the second half to prove it wasnt the dice and i *still* had good luck) so im going to check them today, thanks!
omg at first i thought the thumbnail said something like "how to make a balanced breakfast with dice" LOL
Nah, THAT'S in my candy dic emaking video haha
A source of vitamins d and d
Dude, I'm totally trying this. Thanks for the info!
Of course! Hope you find it helpful :)
I think I'll just use some connections and have CNC-cut dice made from the fine mechanics workshop at my university. That should give me some good dice.
Do it! I'd love to watch the process for creating some metal dice like that :)
They will only be as good as the material they are made out of. If the stock isn't consistent, the dice won't be.
@@ionstorm66 I'm talking about pure, fine mechanics grade aluminium.
My observation when I did this experiment is that ALL DICE are biased if the water is dense enough. Using sugar to nake a thick syrup will let any die roll around to it's heart's content until it feels comfortable. My conclusion? Whenever you roll dice make sure something stops the rolling soon. Letting it tumble for too long will make it more likely to settle by its own weight.
Good observation :) Thanks for the knowledge!
Lol when u said the other dice has a tendency to lean on the 2 18 and 15, i thought about that scene from road to el dorado...
"You gave me LOADED DIIICE!?!?!?" XD
Lol I love that movie!
@@Rybonator yaaaass!
yooo the whole time I was thinking about drinking the salt water. happy I wasn't alone lmao
Both you and my wife are strange human beings haha :)
My mom is going to kill me after she finds out I used her whole sack of salt.
She keeps salt in sacks? Yeah I wouldn't mess with her salt either haha :P
Why are you using her good salt? Go buy the cheap stuff from the dollar store.
Would like to see this done on one of the swirly center dice
Chucking dice fir 20 years...learned something new
It's not a HUGE difference, probably less than .1% but it cane matter to some folks :)
"Wife" is a mood
Don't encourage her ;P
My clear ones I got have some air buttles in them. :( I think my glow in the dark ones are probably the best. I need to test my swirlies.
Ohh glow in dark would be awesome! I should get some pigment for that and do some experimenting.
Yes! The glow in the dark are super cool! then again I am kind of just obsessed with glow in the dark. I may get a giant set soon. So much easier to see what I rolled.
OH! I just bought some giant dice so I can make molds out of them to do some more interesting custom dice. Maybe large glow dice would be cool.
Might be easier to make big dice? Less detailed?
For sure. Even if something is slightly off on those, it's not nearly as big of a deal.
I'm not really sure why TH-cam recommended this to me, but I do know that I have to go home and test my dice now.
Thank you! I have some chessex festival color dice in jail rn because I was rolling 2 and 3 SO MUCH. I thought I'd love them, but they're breaking my heart 😭
Turns out my salt isn't dissolving lol. Big dice aren't floating but the ones I needed tested are. They definitely have some issues!
I'm gonna sub BC I haven't laughed in a week and your wife made me laugh like fuck
I'll tell her she gained a sub haha :P
Why not just calculate it with a simple chi squared
FLangevor how would that be?
because thats a prediction, and this is the facts.
@@thatsnotveryfresh that's not how that works
@@pigsnoutman roll the die like 100 times and there's your data ser
@@SteelFlange_ the point is not having to do that
Ok i smell what youre steppin in, ill sub
Lol I hadn't heard it put that way before. That one got me :)
I have no dice, and do not intent on playing a game where such dice are needed, yet here I am
You have no dice YET ;D
Why I am here?
I don't even play DnD :(
The universe is trying to change that ;)
Magic the gathering also uses alot of these dice too. And I find having more than just a regular D6 for counters is really helpful
@@maladroit5581 spindown d20 to count life points
But mtg doesn't need to roll dice
@@Rishkar-Peema-Pants no but I use them for counters on creatures to keep track of all that for creatures that gain or lose counters often, such as planeswalkers
@@maladroit5581 yeah right.
What i was trying to say is that itdoesn't matter if the dice are weighted or unbalanced because you're not gonna roll them anyways :)
Thanks. I never knew
For people asking about metal dice it is worth noting that the liquid must be more dense than the solid. That means you aren't likely to have a liquid in your cupboards to test metal dice. Unless you are a chemist and have a bunch of mercury or gallium on hand.
As a heads up, if you're having problems getting enough salt to dissolve to make up for the weight of the dice, use Epsom salt.
Well yes but actually no, you'll be able to disolve a lot more since epsom salt contain a lot of water but the salt concentration will be yhe same in the end
@@Draconic404 really? is that accurate?
It was my understanding that The dead sea has such a high salinity specifically because it has other types of salts in it which allows it to have more "saltiness" than it could have with sodium based salts. Specifically, magnesium based salts, which includes Epsom salt, make a big difference in getting past the traditional saturation point.
Regarding the scenario I was referring to in the original comment, the cup I used literally could not dissolve enough salt, no matter what I did, how much I stirred (even used a whisking machine), or the temp of the water. Wound up with a pile of salt at the bottom of the cup that raised the dice halfway up the cup.
Used Epson salt in the same cup and worked like a charm without any of the crazy shenanigans I tried before.
Sure, that's all anecdotal, but it lined up with my previous understanding of Epsom salts. I Could totally be wrong, but it makes sense given the situation.
@@noblesseoblige319 idk about the dead sea, I think its just a the limit of dissolution but nile red did a video about epsom salt, its like 90% water from what I remember, you can check it out
"I just like salt" so relatable😂 or is it just me
You and my wife at least haha
Also very rare “good salt meme at the start”
Like at first when I heard locally sourced salt I was like “fuck this dude talkin bout” but then I’s all like ohhhhhhhh dis nigga funny
It's hard to get a good salt meme these days, but if you mine hard enough you just might get one in the salt mines of TH-cam
I've tried this at home once and it worked just like in the video. The thing is I'm not entirely convinced that the slight unbalances that can be perceived by this method actually do translate into consistent differences when you roll the dice. If a specific unbalanced die deviates only slightly from the expected outcomes, I don't see a problem. I'm also not sure if there's something that could cause the die to be inconsistent that would not be revealed by this method, though I doubt it. I think we should find some better way of testing and analyzing that.
It is supposed to mimic the balance machines that casinos use in their dice balance testing. However you are totally right. Most of the time this may equate to a .1% difference, which in the grand scheme of things. Who cares! :)
@@Rybonator that's a margin of error I'm perfectly fine living with. I guess I don't need to throw away all my dice after all! Hahaha
Thanks for the reply!
This is super helpful thank you!
Glad i could help! :)
I don’t know what i walked into, I thought it was just chance. I guess with different materials come different results. Wow
Honestly it changes things in a super minuscule amount, like from a 5% chance per face, to like a 4.5-5% chance, so don't worry yourself too much :) BUT for some people, complete fairness makes a big difference!
Rybonator with the way the numbers are laid out the weighting has even less of an effect as well. I believe so, anyway. I've just been pondering this lately I don't have any maths to prove it. Opposite faces do average 10.5 though which sort of evenly distributes the values on each face. If a particular face is more likely to show up, so are the adjacent faces. So if you're more likely to roll a 20, you're also more likely to roll a 2, 14 and 8 (I think this is standard)
I'm sure there's some ever maths out there regarding this, just dumping my thoughts here
Over 200 casinos disliked this.
All them damn casinos doxxing this video :p
Whoop! Nice video! Gig 'em '12
Whoop! Gig'em '16!
That's insane!
Thanks for the tip!
She revels in the tears of her fallen enemies
So this is a way to check whether a die is weighted unevenly?
yes
Gotta do this to see if my dice are unbalanced or just plain bad luck with the nat 1s the last 3 sessions.
If they are, throw them in dice jail :)
you can heat the water to increase the amount of salt that you cn dissolve if your dice keep sinking
That's a great point! Thanks :)
Who else is watching this in 2027 because D&D became mainstream again?
!Remind Me 2027
As a chef watching you measure the salt was very painful
As a chef...you should be smart enough to know he wasn't trying to be even close to precise.
I guess you aren't though.
@@brokenwave6125 Ah so you should be smart enough to know that if you assume shit you'll just make an ass out of yourself.
i guess you aren't though.
@@TheAndymacm That was an atrocious sentence.
Anyways...he's not preparing a meal or precise recipe so calm the fuck down.
Chefs are like vegans...they have to tell you what they are when no one asked...
@@brokenwave6125 woosh
this is taking your gaming to a silly level, needed to checking the balance of dice
When your friend has a 'magic' 🎲 that always seems to roll 20, it makes you wonder if they know this trick. 🤔