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enter image description hereDoes anyone know what these cubes are used for? Is it a board game?

The dice are all identical, with sides, [D,S,S,T,M,Glyph].

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  • Cubes have 6 sides, you have shown 5, what's on the 6th? Is it a repeat of one of the other sides? – John Sep 21 '17 at 16:54
  • None of these, anyway... https://boardgamegeek.com/wiki/page/word_dice_game# – steenbergh Sep 21 '17 at 17:01
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    @John If they're all the same, based on a few different angles visible in the big pile, I think there are two sides with an S opposite each other. – Cascabel Sep 21 '17 at 17:20
  • @tuskiomi LCR dice have 3 identical sides, and then each of the 3 letters on the other sides. – GendoIkari Sep 21 '17 at 18:39
  • FWIW the "Glyph" looks to me like a dart. Building from there, maybe D/T could stand for Double/Triple (rings on a dart board)... – Benjamin Cosman Sep 21 '17 at 19:40
  • I half expected a "dart dice" image search to find something like this, but it didn't :( – ikegami Sep 21 '17 at 20:13
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    @BenjaminCosman I agree. S = Single, D = Double, T = Triple, and the Dart = a Dart. This probably has something to do with darts. Not sure what the M is for. – Southpaw Hare Sep 21 '17 at 21:19
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    Maybe M is for miss? – BJ Myers Sep 21 '17 at 22:48
  • Probably just imperfections in the printing; but the glyphs don't all look the same. In the bottom picture of the individual die, it looks like an electric cord. – GendoIkari Sep 24 '17 at 22:32

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While trying to track this down, I found a patent that describes something very similar to this. This die may be a further iteration of the idea described here: http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2018/0021669.html

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