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posted by n1 on Thursday November 19 2015, @02:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the snake-eyes dept.

Pieces from a mysterious board game that hasn't been played for 1,500 years were discovered in a heavily looted 2,300-year-old tomb near Qingzhou City in China.

There, archaeologists found a 14-face die made of animal tooth, 21 rectangular game pieces with numbers painted on them and a broken tile which was once part of a game board. The tile when reconstructed was "decorated with two eyes, which are surrounded by cloud-and-thunder patterns," wrote the archaeologists in a report published recently in the journal Chinese Cultural Relics.

We finally know what happened to Andy when he disappeared after casting Time Warp...


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  • (Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Thursday November 19 2015, @08:46AM

    by WalksOnDirt (5854) on Thursday November 19 2015, @08:46AM (#265289) Journal

    Hey! How about telling us what form the 14-sided die was. Maybe a cubooctahedron [wikipedia.org] or a truncated cube [wikipedia.org]? Were all faces equally likely to come up?

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:28PM (#265365)
    Hey! How about following the article link you you could see the picture of the 14-sided die right at the top of the damn page!
    • (Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Friday November 20 2015, @04:20PM

      by WalksOnDirt (5854) on Friday November 20 2015, @04:20PM (#265856) Journal

      What? Read the article?

      Ok, now I have and it is a truncated octahedron. It looks close to fair.

  • (Score: 2) by The Archon V2.0 on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:30PM

    by The Archon V2.0 (3887) on Thursday November 19 2015, @03:30PM (#265366)

    Or a dipyramid like a d10.

    That reminds me, I need to get a blank or 3d-printed d16 so I can make a 2d4.