Players of games like Monopoly and Settlers of Catan roll a pair of six-sided dice and use the sum of the results. There are a number of designs for non-standard dice that give the same distribution of results. One well known one is the pair of Sicherman dice, created by Col. George Sicherman, and popularized by Martin Gardner, which has the only other numbering of a pair of six-sided dice with positive integers that gives the same sums as standard dice. Col. Sicherman will be interviewed as part of this presentation. Moving beyond six sided dice and beyond taking sums gives more ways to arrive at the desired distribution, some of them discovered by the presenter.
Alexandre Muñiz designs puzzles and dice, many of which are described on his blog, and will be crowdfunding shaker dice using a novel application of graph edge labeling in the spring of 2022. He sings with the Portland Christmas Revels and the Sherwood Renaissance Singers, and dances with Renegade Rose Morris.
