Roll me a story.
Sep. 2nd, 2010 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynSo there's this new DW group, ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
storycubes. It's based on Rory's Story Cubes which is a set of 9 d6 each with different pictures on the faces (total of 54 images). You are supposed to make up a story using all 9 images from your roll.
The group mod rolls for anyone who requests it and the person then posts their story (can't get a new set of cubes until posted previous story).
Based on the pictures shown in the marketing materials and reviews. Based on the images of the requested rolls in the group. I have discerned 53 of 54 images. I have made a pretty good stab at finding out which images go together on each die (there was a mistake I found and I stopped for the evening.)
I'm finding this very intellectually entertaining.
I might have been interested in the Story Cubes themselves if there was a phone app (only Apple phones) or an online flash thing. But the more I look at the combinations other people are getting, the more idiotic this sounds. It's not a coherent prompt. If you could massage your roll in some fashion, perhaps. Or ignore anomalous dice. But I think it would have worked better with 6 d9, so there would be fewer mandatory prompts and so there wouldn't be as many contradictions. And honestly I think it could have used more words. The stuff they chose to include is bizarre... the symbol for Learner's Permit, but not a door or anything food-related or furniture-related.
So mostly I'm treating it like one of those logic problems.
ETA: 6pm Friday
Solved it. Know 53/54 possible images. Have all 9 dice accounted for (one face says _____ for the unknown image).
1: castle tower, credit card, eye, pyramid, rainbow, tree
2: arrow, cane, cellphone, face (mask), lightning bolt, scales
3: face (frown), key, shooting star, tepee, ?, fountain
4: fire, footprint, lock, magnet, sheep, L-learner
5: airplane, apple, flashlight, skyscraper, world, face (smile)
6: beetle, dice, hand, magnifying glass, turtle, cat
7: all-directions arrow, fish, flower, keyhole, parachuter, comedy & tragedy
8: clock, house, lightbulb, quote bubble, fletched arrow, _____
9: bee, book, magic wand, abacus, bridge, moon
storycubes. It's based on Rory's Story Cubes which is a set of 9 d6 each with different pictures on the faces (total of 54 images). You are supposed to make up a story using all 9 images from your roll.The group mod rolls for anyone who requests it and the person then posts their story (can't get a new set of cubes until posted previous story).
Based on the pictures shown in the marketing materials and reviews. Based on the images of the requested rolls in the group. I have discerned 53 of 54 images. I have made a pretty good stab at finding out which images go together on each die (there was a mistake I found and I stopped for the evening.)
I'm finding this very intellectually entertaining.
I might have been interested in the Story Cubes themselves if there was a phone app (only Apple phones) or an online flash thing. But the more I look at the combinations other people are getting, the more idiotic this sounds. It's not a coherent prompt. If you could massage your roll in some fashion, perhaps. Or ignore anomalous dice. But I think it would have worked better with 6 d9, so there would be fewer mandatory prompts and so there wouldn't be as many contradictions. And honestly I think it could have used more words. The stuff they chose to include is bizarre... the symbol for Learner's Permit, but not a door or anything food-related or furniture-related.
So mostly I'm treating it like one of those logic problems.
ETA: 6pm Friday
Solved it. Know 53/54 possible images. Have all 9 dice accounted for (one face says _____ for the unknown image).
1: castle tower, credit card, eye, pyramid, rainbow, tree
2: arrow, cane, cellphone, face (mask), lightning bolt, scales
3: face (frown), key, shooting star, tepee, ?, fountain
4: fire, footprint, lock, magnet, sheep, L-learner
5: airplane, apple, flashlight, skyscraper, world, face (smile)
6: beetle, dice, hand, magnifying glass, turtle, cat
7: all-directions arrow, fish, flower, keyhole, parachuter, comedy & tragedy
8: clock, house, lightbulb, quote bubble, fletched arrow, _____
9: bee, book, magic wand, abacus, bridge, moon
