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Cleaning out a library and found these with pieces from several dozen board games. I'm not 100% sure they even go to a game.

The symbols don't look like alchemical or occult symbols I'm familiar with.

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[-] boborama@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 2 weeks ago
[-] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 14 points 2 weeks ago

Within the space of six months, three people have found identical unidentifiable sets of dice with what looks like sigils on them? Spooky.

[-] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

If you find a 7th one and you use them in the correct order, I think a wormhole will appear. It's probably near some supercapacitor.

That, or if you figure out the correct sequence, 2 people from the Air Force are going to show up and offer you a job you can't refuse.

[-] eezeebee@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 weeks ago

The symbols don't look like alchemical or occult symbols I'm familiar with.

That's the thing about sigils. Anyone can just make up their own. That's my guess anyway.

[-] Madison420@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

They're position markers with arbitrary symbols. If you look they're all the same symbols, all marked with the same multi media and uwmc #. They're probably for museum photo cataloging or perhaps loan out markers for items.

[-] Bubs@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Looks like a possible student project of some sort. Searching up the text gave me these potential answers:

IMC UWEC May stand for Interactive Media Communication. I would guess that's the name of the particular class. UWEC is the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.

Multimedia 3537 Likely a specific university course code. Part of their multimedia communication course

[-] one_old_coder@piefed.social 5 points 2 weeks ago

Do you have the names of those games?

[-] FiniteBanjo@feddit.online 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

if you search multimedia 3537 some results are in Russian, the symbols vaguely resemble Russian old alphabet or Cyrillic, idk

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

They remind me of a uni project a guy was doing in 2010. Machine and human readable cubes to allow a machine vision and computer to read communication lines from a human.

You'd place the cubes in a row to spell out a sentence of instruction. And the camera capture would send to be deciphered.

At the time I couldn't comprehend how this was useful, but maybe specific graphics were easier for the machine vision to recognize then actual words.

He tried explaining it to me, but after a few times I said something like "I'm either dumb as a brick and can't get this or you have gone off the derpend."

[-] Arghblarg@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

I could swear I've seen that bottom symbol (second lowest die) somewhere... they remind me of Blissymbols a bit, but I don't think that's what they are.

[-] GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

Schizo dice, maybe?

[-] treadful@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago

Can we see more sides?

[-] GrilledCheese@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 weeks ago

Schizo dice, maybe?

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