Loaded Dice, Without the Confiscation Risk
Gamblers have weighted, shaved, and magnetized dice for five thousand years — it is humanity’s oldest cheat. This is the modern, harmless edition: the roll button is the loaded part. Tap its left third and the die tumbles, bounces, and lands on 6. Every time. Tap the right third and it lands on 1 — a delightful option when someone else needs to roll low. Tap the middle and it is a genuinely fair die (until you re-aim the middle yourself, which is the third trick below), and that is precisely what makes the con work: you can demonstrate its honesty all evening before the one roll that matters.
One-Shot Presets for Exact Numbers
Need a specific face — say a dramatic 4 to tie instead of win? On a keyboard, press 1–6 before the roll and the next tumble lands exactly there. Presets are deliberately one-shot: they fire once and vanish, so anyone replaying your moves afterward finds an ordinary fair die. A nearly invisible dot confirms your preset armed; the practice mode overlays the secret zones and narrates everything while you rehearse, and the fullscreen button hides this entire page from your audience.
Rather not rely on finger placement at all? The middle third of the button is the honest one, and the visible Middle of the button control decides what it rolls — 1 through 6, or Fair for an honest six-sided roll. Set it to 6 and a middle tap rolls a six every time, as does a keyboard roll, which carries no tap position at all: press Enter on the roll button and the die obeys the setting. It remembers your pick for next time, the secret edge thirds still outrank it on any tap that reaches them, and fullscreen presentation mode ignores it entirely — so a face you set last week can never hijack a live game.
The Reveal Is the Punchline
Like every gag on this site, the prank ends with the confession — win three suspicious sixes, let the outrage peak, then flip on practice mode and show them the zones. The die itself never lies about its nature to you, and the cheat sheet below is generated from the same constants the die obeys, so what you read is exactly what it does.
For Honest Rolls (and Other Cons)
When you actually need fair dice — game night after the reveal — our dice roller handles multiple dice honestly, and D&D players can roll real ability scores with the 4d6 stat roller. To keep conning your friends instead, the rigged coin flip is this trick’s two-sided sibling, and the prank & gag tools hub has the whole repertoire.
