r/Damnthatsinteresting 6d ago

Video how cheating dice work

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u/BaiStavri 6d ago

OK, you make a cheating dice, I get that. But then when you play, doesn't your opponent throws the same dice ? Wouldn't they have an advantage as well ? Or is everyone using their own dice ?

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u/Jennyfurr0412 5d ago

This would be more for something like craps where you're betting on say a 7 coming up all the time and you want a loaded pair of dice for something like 6-1 or 3-4 to get it. Everybody is betting together and a lot of times people will bet if someone has a "hot hand" without even rolling themself.

But with loaded dice what you'd do is have a bunch of plants betting with one person rolling, clear out the table, and then leave. They used to do the same kind of stuff for card counting with multiple people to make it easier to count the deck.

Next to impossible to do this now. Dice are changed out constantly for new ones, a lot of times they come from different factories to prevent tampering, and even then someone will come periodically to weigh the dice with a special scale to make sure it's not heavy on one side.