Dice stacking

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Dice Stacking or die stacking or tower dice is a game of skill for a player, wherein the playing dice with the aid of a cup are stacked.

procedure

A dice cup is used to pick up multiple casino dice from a flat surface, particularly a table or hand. Then the cup is placed upside down on the table so that the cubes are stacked like a tower without touching the cubes directly with the hand. The game achieves its charm through the different variations in picking up the dice as well as the number of dice to be picked up and the associated level of difficulty. Deeper dice cups are used to stack a large number of dice on top of one another.

competition

The WDSA (World Dice Stacking Association) has drawn up a comprehensive set of rules so that dice stacking can be played as a competition. Dice Stacking is playable through the invention of Heiko Sehnert and his "DiceBoard", on which a fixed sequence of movements is drawn. The dice stackers can compete against each other in two disciplines, on the one hand in the "full area" discipline and on the other hand in the "speed area" discipline.

The first German championship in dice stacking took place on May 24th, 2008 in Essen, where Maximiliano Pugliese emerged as the winner. He was also able to win the second German championship ahead of Tim Dithmer and Martin Middendorf, who both took second place. The freestyle double, which was added to the 2nd German Championship, was won by Martin Middendorf together with Adrian Vogel. The third championship in cube stacking took place in 2010 in Bocholt (North Rhine-Westphalia). Here, too, Maximiliano Pugliese prevailed against the competition and, for the third time in a row, achieved the title of "German Dice Stacking Champion".

Record and materials

The world record holder for the most dice stacked on top of each other is the German magician Enzo Paolo, who created a tower of 23 dice using a specially made beaker.

The tallest cube tower built "in stages" (can be seen on a video on YouTube) consists of 40 cubes, which Maximiliano Pugliese (Germany) stacked on top of each other in 4-fold steps. 40 cubes were stacked on top of one another in the form of so-called "point stacks". This technology counts as a comparable medium among the cube stackers.

Due to the increasing interest in this extraordinary game and sport, companies and private individuals are trying to use it for their commercial products. Mostly cheap products are offered that can hardly be used for dice stacking. Only original casino dice offer the possibility of quick learning success and are ideal for difficult tricks. Casino dice are so good for dice stacking because they don't have rounded edges like conventional game dice. In addition, the points on the individual sides are not milled, but were first milled out exactly and then filled up with a white material. As a result, casino dice offer a maximum support surface and thus great stability of the dice tower.

techniques

Upstack: With this technique, the casino dice are picked up from the table, the hand or other surfaces with the cup. Then the cup with the dice is placed on the table or on other objects and a dice tower is formed. This is the basic technique for all other dice stacking tricks.

Downstack: Here, the dice are individually taken from an existing dice tower in the cup and then placed back in a tower on the table.

Point stack: The point stack is one of the most difficult dice stacking techniques. Here, a few cubes are first placed in a beaker and placed on an object with a special swinging movement, e.g. B. on another cup, another dice tower or, as Thomas Fischbach has shown in " Wetten, dass ..? ", On nail heads.

These 3 techniques are only basic techniques and you can create many different tricks from them.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Homepage of Maximiliano Pugliese .
  2. ↑ Ralf Laue: World records in dice stacking . Recordholders.org. Retrieved February 2, 2011.
  3. ↑ Maximiliano Pugliese's world record .

See also

Sports stacking

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