They’re just bog standard six-siders, honest!
- Front left: 4 on top, 6 and 2 facing.
- Rear left: 1 on top, 2 and 3 facing.
- Front centre: 3 on top, 6 and 5 facing.
- Rear right: 2 on top, 6 and 3 facing.
- Front right: 5 on top, 6 and 4 facing.
Mahjong players be like:
You were saying?
Dang, need to find me a deck like that, travel sets keep getting me stopped in the airport
Here’s one source. I cannot vouch for or against it; I buy inside China, not outside.
They could count the number of lines still ;)
Only works from 1-3. 4 has 5 strokes (6 lines), for example.
You only count the four central strokes for four when its written that way, how those kanji came about or how theyre taught to children, is that the stroke number is equal to the numbers value up until you reach ten.
That doesn’t work at all though? 五, 六 have 4 strokes, and 七, 八, 九, 十 have 2 strokes.
And the die uses the old form of 5: 伍
They might gues 1-3 , nice try though
I’m not a native speaker of any language that uses Chinese numerals, but I have some familiarity with them and these look weird to me.
1, 2, and 3 are the ordinary forms, 5 is the more formal version used in finance, 6 looks like the ordinary form but with an extra stroke, and 4 is so off that I only identified it by process of elimination.
Welcome to the wonderful world of calligraphic writing. 😬
But… whats even the point of rolling them openly then ?
Complying with the social contract under a technicality.
