How to distinguish fake dice

Summary: Dice is a regular hexahedron with 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 points on each side (holes are not allowed). Generally, the materials are hard. If the material is too loose and the number of points is wrong, it should be fake.

Dice (tóu zi). The traditional folk entertainment in China is dustpan throwing. As early as the Warring States Period. Usually used as props for table games, the most common dice is six-sided dice, which is a regular cube with one to six holes (or numbers) on it, and the sum of the opposite numbers must be seven. China's dice are used to being painted red at one and four o'clock. Dice is a random number generator, which is easy to make and obtain.

Historical source

According to legend, the inventor of dice was Cao Zhi, a writer in the Three Kingdoms period. Originally used as a tool for divination, it later evolved into a game of concubines in the harem, betting on wine or silk sachets with dice points. At that time, the dots on the dice were all drawn in black, and it was not until the Tang Dynasty that red strokes were added.

However, according to textual research, the dice unearthed from Qi Tomb in Qingzhou, Shandong Province were not invented by Cao Zhi. Dice, as one of the six major operas in China, is regarded as the ancestor of China's operas, and it was popular as early as the late Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.