Industrious Dice

That is the nerdiest thing I’ve ever seen and it’s appropriate that he was wearing a top hat while presenting it.

However, the point of dice is typically not so you can count the numbers but so others can count them. People sitting at a table with you cannot see “up”, they can only see from an angle and so these dice while mathematically cool are completely impractical. Great example of white tower design.

The article points this problem out. It's recreational mathematics, not intended to be practical.