{"id":7855,"date":"2024-03-14T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/?p=7855"},"modified":"2025-01-30T09:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-30T08:56:09","slug":"the-oddball-dice-series-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.virtual-dreams.org\/dice\/the-oddball-dice-series-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Oddball Dice #10 – Rare King Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

For the next two weeks, I will make daily posts where I\u2019ll spotlight unusual or lesser known dice that I have in my collection that I hope are interesting for everyone to see and learn about. Each day I\u2019ll cover a different theme, I hope you enjoy this series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The King Cards dice most people don\u2019t know about<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When people say King Cards, most collectors think of King Cards Pearl or King Cards Rainbow, which are fairly well known to collectors. However, King Cards also released other things that you don\u2019t see all that often. Here are a few examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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King Cards Snow Time 16mm pips
<\/strong>Translucent dice with little blobs in them, almost like a chunkier version of the luminary particles, except they don\u2019t glow in the dark. They were made in a number of different colours. Chessex made a polyset version of the white with black design and called it Orbits, but they were not widely distributed and may have been a test set.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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King Cards Glitter 25mm pips<\/strong>
These are actually kinda cool, there\u2019s this one die that has metallic strings woven throughout, and it looks very different from different angles, depending on the alignment of the strings. The pips have different metallic colours on each face, and they look like they might be printed on since they don\u2019t have grooves.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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King Cards Marmoriert (Marbled) 16mm pips<\/strong>
Made as 16mm pips in different colours with very subtle swirling. I have eight different colours, I\u2019m not sure if more were made.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

What a number of people may also not know is that back in the day, King Cards sold a lot of the same dice as those that are known to collectors by other names, namely\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n