Dice other than d6 see extensive use in antiquity

[acgoldis]

Can you see dice other than d6 being used in antiquity? If so, for what?

Were they never used because they're hard to make?

I can see d12 used for month and astrology oracles, d4 for seasons, d8 for the Roman 8 day week.

 

[Legofan4]

They were used. Examples of other types have been discovered.

 

[jacob ningen]

Can you see dice other than d6 being used in antiquity? If so, for what?

Were they never used because they're hard to make?

I can see d12 used for month and astrology oracles, d4 for seasons, d8 for the Roman 8 day week.

astralagi are counterexamples coins being d2. tetrahedron are easy to make. D10 is easy to make but as it is nonplatonic they'd probably use equivalence classes of d20s

 

[Mildtryth]

Can you see dice other than d6 being used in antiquity? If so, for what?

Were they never used because they're hard to make?

I can see d12 used for month and astrology oracles, d4 for seasons, d8 for the Roman 8 day week.

Four-sided dice were rather common in Rome. And they could make dice with more sides, given that there are surviving examples of twenty-sided dice, but the most common were those with four or six sides.

 

[GuildedAgeNostalgia]

What if Instead of a cube, they rolled cylinders with flattened sides?

 

[Mildtryth]

What if Instead of a cube, they rolled cylinders with flattened sides?

Actually, four-sided dice were pretty much what you're describing;