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Originally Posted by PK Games
So basically they were used as "models" to show different shapes. And G Gygax went "hmmm if only they were numbered!"
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I believe (from the Wired article somebody linked to earlier) that Gygax was using a system of picking sight unseen a single chit from a set numbered 1 to 20 before he was show the icosahedron in an education supply catalogue. So he already had the idea of a 1-20 random range (flat distribution etc.) but didn't have a die shape until he saw the icosahedron...
Nick Middleton