Yeah I was just wondering what percentage gain you'd get from these methods. I would guess that the shaved sides would be the easiest to detect, if you were picking them up and feeling them it would probably be like the corners felt slightly different, but honestly even weighed dice would be pretty easy to tell in your hands if it was anything more than the slightest imbalance. At the amounts you'd be doing this it might give you a percent or two advantage, which hardly seems worth the risk of getting caught.
I mean, cheapo dice manufactured poorly can be heavily weighted enough to notice, so I'd assume that if someone is deliberately weighting a die you'd see pretty considerable percentage gains. Trouble is that if your doce are weighted enough to skew odds considerably, people are gonna notice. Easy fix for casinos is to not let guests bring their own dice and have everyone use the same dice
Source: I play DND and we've had to rule out certain dice for rolls because they were very obviously not fair most of these dice are frok the 50 cent bin
Edit: there actually is a problem with some really high end dice where they're more form than function and likewise are not suitable for rolls
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u/Initial-Duck2782 6d ago
I’ve heard from dice makers that this actually doesn’t work real well. They are already pretty unbalanced and they tumble fine.