What were Roman Dodecahedrons used for?

From where?

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Carluccio’s :ok_hand::+1::wink:

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Yes, I noticed the difference in hole sizes on at least some of them and the dimples would ensure that however far you roll them they would always stop with one of the twelve holes upward.
So they could be used as a competitive game, assuming that each hole could count as some sort of score. Perhaps each hole might originally have contained a plate or block with a number or letter.
Very strange anyway.

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Tesco, silly!

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No idea what they were used for but some of the pictures of them remind me of little faces - like shocked emoticons! :open_mouth:

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Every little helps!

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Here is an academic paper suggesting a possible practical use for such dodecahedra.
I think it makes a lot of sense.

dodec.wps (arxiv.org)

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Thank you for that, is does sound logical

But it might be scuppered by the 20 sided one they found which doesn’t have big holes you could look through

I think that one makes it look as if they might have been some sort of die and a game?

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Strange. Perhaps that (and others) may have been simply decorative objects.

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China where pasta is known as noodles.

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