I thought the same until I tried it! You end up with the same problem - two faces at 90 degrees to each other that need to slot together at the same time - but this time all the way around the cube (six faces at once) rather than just on one side (four faces at once). I don't think there's any particularly easy way to get those things together, but once you do tease it into position, they stay in shape pretty well!

I had heaps of fun making modular origami when I was younger, and while icosahedrons were my favourite, the same principals can be used to make cubes. (link below) I have a feeling that the origami dice that you used are essentially the same individual units, but turned inside out. Thinking a little harder about it though, the way I used to do it would have been easier to assemble because of the way the tabs/slots are situated. I'd be curious to see if making an origami die to the relevant proportions of a die you already have and constructing it around the outside would make for a better roll with the added weight. mathcraft.wonderhowto.com/how-to/modular-origami-make-cube-octahedron-icosahedron-from-sonobe-units-0131460/

You're right, they look exactly the same! Thanks for the link, I've known of these shapes being used for cubes for a while and had a vague understanding it finds a wider use in origami, but I don't think I've seen the other polyhedra. I guess the advantage to using them this way around is that you can print the die face on the large unfolded area in the middle; the disadvantage is that all the pockets are now strictly on the inside, so it's a bit trickier to work all the tabs home. (Realistically, the other factor that I didn't really go into in the video is size. The template I provided is about as small as it's possible to make these, and the larger you make them the easier they are to put together... it's just that it's easy to end up with a die that's eight centimetres across!)

I don't, I'm afraid - the indented parts on mine are 15mm across, which is a little more than 9/16ths of an inch - so I generally just scale my images to 13 or 14mm squares (14mm is very close to 9/16", so that would probably also be a good size) in Inkscape/Illustrator/favourite-layout-program-of-choice, to make sure that they fit in the indent without riding up the edges at all.

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Depends where you are! In the UK you can get them from: blankdice.co.uk/ www.thediceshoponline.com/ In the US: indentedblankdice.com/?p=87 www.printplaygames.com/ www.thegamecrafter.com If you search for "indented blank dice" you may find other options nearer to you. You can also often find these dice in games in second-hand shops or boot sales; there's quite a few titles that have used them over the years.

I try and avoid PVA for most PnP stuff, because it's a very wet glue and it often causes paper to wrinkle. If you're talking about getting stickers to stick down, the easiest option is just to use label paper in the first place. Failing that, at least for the size sticker you need for dice or tokens, you can stick double-sided tape (the kind with a backing paper) on the underside of the printed material, cut the shape out, then peel back the paper from the double-sided tape to stick down. If you're talking about covering the sticker with a protective layer, then there's several options. Often I like to just spray with an acrylic lacquer (the stuff I use is intended for cars, so it's nice and durable, and I found a good supplier that sells it cheap in bulk). If you're not in the position to do that or prefer something thicker or glossier, you can find self-adhesive clear plastic - it often comes on rolls, here in the UK we find it in stationers as "book covering" material, or under the name 'cold laminate'. You could even just use a sticky tape - packing tape or repair tape or something like that, if it's wide enough for what you're covering.

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Just print it on sticker paper it cost me 50cents for a color copy on a normal sized page