Lou Zocchi
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Louis Zocchi, Sergeant, USAF (Retired), is a gaming hobbyist, former game distributor and game publisher, and maker and seller of polyhedral game dice.
Zocchi and his company Gamescience have published a number of games over the years (many designed by Zocchi), but are best known for making dice, and inventing the Zocchihedron (100-sided) die. Zocchi is a well-known figure at gaming conventions like Gen Con and Origins Game Fair, where he demonstrates the innate unfairness in most mass-produced gaming dice.
Most dice, according to Zocchi, do not roll accurately because of their flawed manufacturing processes. The dice favor certain numbers and are more likely to land on those numbers. Zocchi attributes the "superstition" of many gamer who have certain dice to roll high and others to roll low to the fact that major dice manufacturers smooth out the straight edges of their dice in machines much like rock tumbler. The result is that plastic dice originally molded evenly are unevened...
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