Home-made 8-inch Dice Tower

Bought this at Michaels for $5. Other than the modified opening at the bottom, this is what it looks like sitting on the store shelf. Initially the top and middle portions had solid wood pieces through them. To make the holes for the dice to fall through I had to cut those pieces. In order to gain easy access to the inside portion I used a strong utility knife to slice between the base of the top piece and the top edges of the bottom piece. It only took a couple of minutes to cut through the glue and remove the top piece. To cut out the flat floor pieces I drilled a large hole just on the inside of the corners, then used a sheet rock knife to complete the cuts. Once I had those two floor pieces removed I had an opening from top to bottom. I cut out the slot at the bottom (where the dice come OUT of the tower) using the same utility knife... carefully slicing through the wood until the pieces were removed. To make the "baffles" or tumblers I used a thin sheet of paneling and cut them to size. I used a total of five baffles, which makes for a good amount of noise and does a great job of randomizing. The pieces are not perfectly level. I intentionally made them slightly crooked to add to the randomness and preven the supposed cheaters from cheating.

To attach the pieces I simply cut them so that they fit tightly inside the tower, holding themselves strongly in place. Once I had a piece positioned properly I put a small bead of wood glue along the edges and pushed it down into the edges. This will provide WAY more support than you will ever need and is very very easy. After placing two baffles in the top and three in the bottom I glued the top piece back onto the bottom and let it dry for approximately an hour and I was ready to roll.

I know these may not be the clearest instructions, but if you have one in front of you ready to work on it will all become quite clear.

One more thing, the tray it's sitting in I made about 8 years ago. It was thrown together very quickly. I needed something that provided some bounce (for randomness) and something to quiet the sound as I didn't want to wake the wife :) The secret material on the bottom is just a 99 cent mouse pad that I cut to shape and glued to the bottom. It makes the dice roll completely silent unless it hits the sides.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• DICE TOWER
• home made
• Memoir 44
• dice game
• d&d
• dungeons and dragons
• d&d dice
• dice tumbler
• Settlers of Catan
• randomizer
• wood
• board game
• instructions

[SininenOsq]

Nice

[Dragdamar]

How well does it work to a 22 die energy blast?

[BrianTheMagicGuy]

I got one of these and detailed it, it looks great. Thanks for the tip!

[jfridy]

Dice towers are a friend to all who hate seeing dice knock over the pieces on the board.

[KevinOpalka]

man i want to make on of those

[Barticus88]

He rolled five sixes

[BlocklandWorld]

At first i didn't now what a dice tower is, now i get it. Nice! 5/5!

[REG4M3R]

Thats really cool