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A giant Rubik's Cube that can be used as a dice when arranged correctly. A set of pastel dice, bought in Galerie Kaufhof in Berlin. Thanks to Gail, a new set of international dice. These angular metal ones are from Lanzarote. Atypyk have produced this set of dice with the dots all over the place, but they can still be used. And they come in this Christmas bauble container. In New York I found a games shop with a whole new range of dice. This one has the numbers 1 to 100 and it really does work even though the faces are tiny. I'd never seen a die within a die before, and I bought this cubic one as well as an octohedral one. This was a great Christmas present from Serene. It's a gold die lapel pin. My brother brought me these stone dice from Cyprus, though they were crafted in Pakistan. I have these dice cufflinks, and you can unscrew the pins and use them as real dice! The smallest dice I've found come from Switzerland. I bought them in a games shop in Brig, after my famous long cycle ride. I'm amazed I've still got them all, they're only 5mm wide! My spherical dice always confuse people until they pick them up and hear the rattling within. A small ball and pattern of grooves mean the die always lands fairly on one of the numbers. This pointy die has an ivory sort of feel, I can't remember where I got it. It's like it's been carved out of bone. There are 5 platonic solids - the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron and icosahedron. I've been to Poland about 6 times now, and I bought these on my first visit. They have little holes drilled in rather than the usual pitted style of dots. My transparent die is from Reading. By this stage I had a dice collection and I'd never had a see-through one before. Again, fairly common dice, but speckly and a bit different. I'm not completely obsessed. I don't buy every dice I see! Never play Ludo with me using when I'm using this one. You can see it's all sixes! This giant die is 10cm wide and made of different coloured woods. It was an unwanted wedding present from an anonymous donor.

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