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May 2025
54m 50s

110 = Inventive Dice and Paperwork Advic...

Matt Parker, Bec Hill
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🎲What’s the best design for non-traditional dice?


📄 What should you call paperwork that doesn’t involve paper?


🙋And it’s more a comment than a question in AOB


Head to our socials to see Matt’s excellent Angry Man In Local Newspaper photos.


If you’d like to peruse and purchase more dice variations, head here:

https://mathsgear.co.uk/collections/dice 


If you have any paperlesspaperwork suggestions, join in here!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AProblemSquared/


If you’re heading to the Edinburgh Fringe, you can get tickets to see Matt here:

https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/getting-triggy-it-matt-parker-does-maths


And you can get tickets see Bec here:

https://tickets.gildedballoon.co.uk/event/14:5884/


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