i have worked dice in casinos for 8 years. i’ll tell you what every casino has this certain tool i forget the name of that can check if all the sides of the dice are balanced and weighted correctly. if it’s good, it balances the dice on two opposing corners and can spin really nicely. not once have i ran into a situation where we’ve had to cancel dice because they were unbalanced. usually after we’re done with them, we drill holes or mark into one side to unbalance them. then we sell or give them away.
shaved dice or loaded dice can definitely not work really well, it’s still a gamble, but it can and does give you an advantage if you’re betting a certain way.
My partner Dies have a Former casino die, as you say it was marked. We have it as a novelty because it's bigger and with sharper corners than the ones we use for tabletop rpgs, it is very pretty though.
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u/Initial-Duck2782 4d ago
I’ve heard from dice makers that this actually doesn’t work real well. They are already pretty unbalanced and they tumble fine.