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Darrel writes, in part:
"I believe he (Marucci) uses it (the die) as a gold bar with the box being a bank.
"I use it as a Die, but start off saying that I play snakes and ladders on a giant board, with the box being the shaker.
"It gives a reason for having what would otherwise be a dodgy looking prop."

One of my suggestions, in my column in the Linking Ring, was to paint the die gold and use it as a gold bar.

Actually, I use it as either a Rubic's cube (It's just the right size)or as a bone, in the late Bill Larsen Sr.'s brilliant and hilarious routine on Mother Hubbard.

But whatever the case, Darrel hits the nail on the head by saying that it needs a reason to be whatever it is (in his case, a giant die from a snakes and ladders game).

Excellent point and handling.