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...
(Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Thursday November 19 2015, @08:46AM
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
(Score: 1) by WalksOnDirt on Friday November 20 2015, @04:20PM
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
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.