Fun with dice 🎲

You know what to avoid when being challenged by a three year old, don't you? Correct, never accept when they dare you into a game of memory. I learned it the hard way, several times. I know, I might be a slow learner. 

Recently, when trying to avoid private humiliation at memory once again, I managed to switch the prodigy's attention to a number of games based on pure luck - better odds for me...

The game came with a six colour die (instead of numbers) - certainly familiar to most tea lovers:

• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Red
• Black
• Purple

Thus, not a full match for our beloved portfolio colours 

• White
• Yellow
• Green
• Blue
• Red
• Black

but close enough. A perfect solution for the tormenting challenge many of us are facing every day: what to brew? 

   

One may count purple as white or just drink a purple tea if not into whites. Or decide to drink a white tea only when the die lands on a white corner, this would be option seven then... 

While the above is certainly a nice gimmick, in realitea I often use 12 or 20-sided dice spin down-dice (not shown in the photo, that one only has ten sides). I like using dice as an aid to easily keep track of the numbers of steepings which may easily range north of ten, depending on the tea type.

In case you'd like to give it a try, I suggest you pay attention to the prefix spindown or countdown, often sold as D12 or D20. Spindown means the next figure you want to show on top is always next to the current one and not on the opposite side as in regular dice and also the one in the photo above. Nothing more distracting than having to search for numbers on a die when trying to relax.

Give it a try: Alea iactanda est.   ⚪🟡🟢🔵🔴⚫🟣