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cascading dice

Postby monsterz » Apr 1st, '05, 15:03



can someone help me think up some patter for cascading dice, i just cant think of any !!

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Postby daleshrimpton » Apr 1st, '05, 15:23

Is this like dice explosion? Describe the effect...

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Postby monsterz » Apr 1st, '05, 15:28

o ok sorry, one large die is shown in a small seethrough container the magician shakes the contatiner and the large die spltis into many smaller dice

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Postby monsterz » Apr 1st, '05, 16:28

no one has ANY ideas?

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Postby daleshrimpton » Apr 1st, '05, 16:39

Impatence gets you nowhere.

Some of us do have other things to do. :)

now this is exactly like the Dice explosion.

Look at what you have. A die, constructed from millions of particals. Atoms, if you like.
Now what else do you have?
A chamber. Maybe this is what they use to " split the atom?".

apply this to your patter, and see what develops...

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Postby monsterz » Apr 1st, '05, 16:43

lol thanks, sorry didnt mean to be impatent :oops: ive been trying to think of some think for a few hours and i had nuffin , man patter isnt my strong point :P

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Postby magicdiscoman » Apr 1st, '05, 17:10

write down what items you have in a list then right next to them ideas you have about them eg.

1) clear platic box:- transporter tube, black hole container, a box, a seathrough thingy.

take thease ideas and see if you can sea a patern that will lead you on to a story.

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Postby katrielalex » Apr 1st, '05, 17:57

I, being a sciencey kind of person, really like the idea about splitting the atom. You take the big die, patter about atom splitters being long tubes where they smash atoms together to make other atoms, and put the die in the tube. Then you explain that this usually breaks the atom into several smaller ones, and open it again.

This just seems great to me!

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Postby zigzag » Apr 1st, '05, 22:00

heres an idea..
cut out 2 equal sized portions out of carpet or a flashy surface of some sort..put the container on one surface and put the other surface about a foot away...now show a hammer and ask a member of the audience what they think your going to do with the hammer...then while theyre talking just suddenly start hitting the surface without the container (just dont smash your table)..then again ask if they know what happened...after a couple of responses just pick up the container...shake it and voila...then you can make up some story saying that the pads were able to teleport the force or something...just a rough idea

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