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Although there is a beauty in the offline potential in a tabletop game, it does not prevent this analogue entertainment form from penetrating the Internet. Cultures, memes, celebrities and myths are all spread like digital wildfire. One of the more puzzling but undeniable ideas for defending online table culture is Wheaton Dice Curse.

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Actors, artist and internet personality Wil Wheaton has made a massive name for himself in the “Nörd” scene. From children who act in stand at me to his time in Star Trek, he eventually established himself as a voice for table games of all kinds. Unfortunately, his accident resulted in dice in a certain infamy. Let's explain.

What is Wheaton Dice Curse?

Wil Wheaton speaks at the Phoenix Comic Fest 2018 at the Phoenix Convention Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
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Wil Wheaton has played countless table top games publicly, even hosting its table show for the production company Geek & Sundry called table top. This would lead to Wheaton showing up on a number of other popular table shows, such as critical role and the magicians in the coastal game held on PAX 2010.

Wheaton, however, seems to have unusually bad ride with dice rollsOften rolls a “critical failure” in Dungeons & Dragons games or others similarly disastrous rolls in other table games. This happened so regularly that society (and Wheaton) noted and called his bizarre statistical tendencies Wheaton Dice Curse.

There is no explanation. There are some … I do not know what ancient relic his family revealed two generations ago that led this blood curse from generation to generation to this day, but that man breaks mathematics and physics. I don't understand it.

He has accepted the playful nature of the curseEmbrace it and openly joke about the phenomenon with other players. Wheaton will often call out when he will also roll badly to reinforce the comic value.

It also inspired a related superstition like Wheaton comes into contact with someone else's dice will make them cursed.

How many Nat 1S rolled Weaton?

Wil Wheaton speaks at Phoenix Comicon 2012 in Phoenix Arizona.
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Although we do not have the complete and complete information required to know Wheaton's life, totally critical failures, we have a metric to pass by.

According to State -Analysis by Critrostats.com, Wheaton rolled a D20 total 54 times Between his guest appearance in two sections of critical role. Of these rolls, ten was a “natural” and 25 was under a five.

Since a D20 has, yes, 20 pages, each number has only a five percent chance of showing up at a given roll. Wheaton, though rolled an approximately 18.5 percent of time. Similarly, there is a 20 percent chance of rolling under a five on a standard D20. He managed to raise the same numbers about 48 percent of the time.

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