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DOES THEY WORK?
ANSWER: Yes! There's a 5% probability per Rare Chance per die. This die body was rolled 100,000 times to test. But your skepticism is deserved. As simple as it appears, it took several iterations and rounds of prototyping to find the right low probability plane length. Any smaller and the percentage dropped precipitously. (It would almost balance and then flop over to a number.) Even a little larger and the Rare Chance happened too often to be special. It took about 2 years to get just right.
WHAT GAMES ARE THEY FOR?
ANSWER: Any game that incorporates a regular D6. That's the simple beauty of it. Toss one into a game and you'll quickly discover some creative play and develop some house rules of your own. For a few ideas or to add your own, visit us on our reddit forum here.
DO THEY CHANGE THE 1-6 PROBABILITY?
ANSWER: Yes, but only minimally, and to all sides equally. Because one Rare Chance affects 3 numbers and the opposite Rare Chance affects the other 3 numbers, the result maintains an equal distribution of probability for 1-6. The new 1-6 probability is therefore reduced to ~15%.
WHAT'S UP WITH THE NAME CEETEEBEE?
ANSWER: This is more of a story than you bargained for, so buckle up...
No one is just one thing, and B. Timp's first foray into entrepreneurship was with a hobbyist/student entomology supply store. That business was named Catch the Bug. While he hopes to still revive that, that's on the backburner for now. He kept the acronym CtB for the dice/gaming business and named this project Cream/Tan/Beige because he thought that was funny and added the knights as mascots in their signature colorway.
But why is it spelled out ceeteebee? Great question! That requires a bit of history.
For those of us old enough to remember the beginning of the internet, it was the wild west of creation and speculation. People discovered that URLs could be purchased and owned and that someday someone might come knocking. The owners of those URLs could then charge whatever they wanted. Short handle URLs were purchased en masse by these speculators. (Some early internet gold mining.) While CtB dot com is not a website, to purchase it would cost tens of thousands. Committed (maybe foolishly) to CtB, we spelled it out and saved a lot of money.
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