WKU engineering students have developed an automated dice roller and tester. It will be demonstrated live and results for several dice brands presented.
Description:
Anyone who uses dice and any educator looking for innovative student projects will find this interesting. Each year there are hundreds of millions of dice produced. Not all of them are fair. We have developed a revised a statistical/graphical method to test the fairness or unfairness of dice. At a glance our plots will will indicate if a die is fair or not and provide an indication of how unfair it is. It works not only with D6 dice but with polyhedral dice as well. The device is portable, runs without human intervention, interprets dice rolls, and stores it in a database. We will demonstrate it at Gen Con. Anyone with an interest in fair or unfair dice will be interested in this. Dice companies will be very interested in it. Educators will find this project a very interesting case study because of unanticipated obstacles faced and solutions found by the students.