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Industrious Dice

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1. penteract ◴[] No.41874965[source]
Such a waste of faces :). Give a tetrahedron's faces 0,1,2, and 4 pips and throw it into a v-shaped groove so that it lands on an edge. (This is also a solution to numbering the corners of a cube).
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2. tromp ◴[] No.41877364[source]
So you get, with equal probabilities, 0+1, 0+2, 1+2, 0+4, 1+4, or 2+4 = {1,2,3,4,5,6}. Same as 2:07 in the video, but using only 1/3 of the faces. Brilliant!