How To Check The Balance Of Your Dice | DIY Easy Trick

A quick video on the DIY salt-water dice balance test. It's super easy, super fast and you can tell which dice are fair to use in your next dungeons and dragons or pathfinder game!

I used chessex dice when testing the weight, balance and spin of these dice. The clear dice seem to be the most FAIR dice to use, while the solid or swirly colored dice seem to not be 100% fair.

Dice like the ones shown are typically used in Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder or an infinite number of other tabletop games and RPGs.

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[freewilly]

Man, I think I kept seeing the same 20 numbers show up, those dice must be weighted.

[RM.-_-.]

DON'T DO THIS WITH YOUR FINGERS IF YOU HAVE A PAPER CUT!

[XCyclonusX]

My copper dice kept sinking to the bottom. Should I assume they're unbalanced and keep landing on the heavy side? Also they're green now.

[lmndaffdil]

I love how the wife at the end really quietly goes "no, I just, ., ., I like, , , salt" like I properly cackled 😂😂😂

[AsdyThePriest]

I used to have a secret designated "DMing dice" It rolled a lot of 1s. My players in that game were dumber than a box of rocks, often drunk, and made horribly inefficient characters (we were just there for the fun and laughs) so one of the ways I ensured they weren't constantly rerolling characters was to use the dunce die.

[therizinosaurus]

Show my dice have tendency to roll 20.. not exactly a problem... had me rolling

[albestri]

Now I know why I was having shit rolls. They killed my second character TWICE.

[manthak]

"You can test it on any dice that you want"
Me: *sweats nervously* I use metal dice

[Xaaaach]

I got this REALLY big D20 and unfortunately it turns out it’s weighted towards 1 :(

It’s still cool, but unfortunately I can’t actually use it...

[penzette]

"i just like salt"

you know what lady... same

[dikiswevalo]

Thank you for this! My party has been rolling all over the place lately. Of all the saline tests, I think your video is one of the most straightforward. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

[theboybrutus]

No one:

Youtube algorithm: how to weigh dice

[pLanetstarBerry]

I checked the balance of my dice a few months ago, I'm glad to say my favorite sets (the borealis series from Chessex) are the most balanced sets I have ever owned. Nice to see a proper recipe for this besides "add salt".

[KeieiH]

Nice way to know if you're getting hustled. I mean, I hope no one is, but nice way to check.

[jameswillis]

"YOU GAVE ME LOADED DICE!!"
(Please somebody recognize the reference)

[NickYT]

>how to check if your D&D dice are weighted

>Container of salt

Uh oh...

[paulh]

I tested about a dozen sets of Chessex pearl/swirl style dice. Of the dozen I tested only two were balanced. Eight d20s rolled low (5 or lower). And the last two rolled middlin' numbers.

Of those sets, I knew I had bad 'luck' and dumped them all and I like aesthetically pleasing completes sets so had to replace a lot of dice. Recently I bought two sets of Halfsies brand dice (that's 2d20, and 4d6, as well as the rest of the dice) and have been super pleased with them. See, I don't mind rolling low numbers when they are mixed in with high numbers, and everything in between. :)

[trashmix]

When your dice has only rolled on 15s 18s and 20s but your the player

[jonne]

It doesn't seem like you're dissolving the salt, you might wanna heat the water beforehand, then mix in the salt, then cool it down, which will give you a properly dissolved salt solution without salt in suspension

[marquioos]

I don't even play any kind of these games! The randomness of YouTube's algorithm is the best!