What Is It? game 156 - Neatorama

It is time for our giveaway collaboration with the always amusing What Is It? Blog! Can you guess what this object is?

Place your guess in the comment section below. One guess per comment, please, though you can enter as many as you'd like. Post no URLs or weblinks, as doing so will forfeit your entry. Two winners: the first correct guess and the funniest (albeit ultimately wrong) guess will win T-shirt from the NeatoShop.

Please write your T-shirt selection alongside your guess. If you don't include a selection, you forfeit the prize, okay? May we suggest the Science T-Shirt, Funny T-Shirt and Artist-Designed T-Shirts?

For more clues, check out the What Is It? Blog. Good luck!

Update: The object is an old gambling die. shin knew what it is, and Sonnuvah had the funniest answer: a 35-pound dumbbell buried up to its neck! Both win t-shirts from the NeatoShop.

First come, first served? LOL

I think it's a weight!

Type Bike, Size M please

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Wow!!! It is an original D6 from the ancient rights of D&D! All Hail!

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in the olden days, for use in the torture chamber. each number on the dice represents one torture method, and if you get the empty side it's a wild card. :D

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awww Look Out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! S please!!

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i forgot the t shirt Look Out Schroedinger's Cat, It's a Trap! S size please!

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It's a dice, beta version.
You know, before they sorted the bugs out.

Wizard of Oz, short version, Small, military green! :)

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Microsoft Dice Vista. Looks like it took a lot of effort to make and may be good for something, but haven't figured out what yet.
Bad to the Gnome XL

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steampunk die/holeless bolt.

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A moon...? No wait, it's a space station!

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Hex Nut Die

Moose Likely to Succeed, Medium, Serene Green

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A dreidel

Moose Likely to Succeed, Medium, Serene Green

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This is a knob off of Spinal Taps first set of amps, they were powered by steam back then, and yes it does have "11" stamped on the other side.

Lag Kills XL

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It is a die from a printing press

it was rocket science - Lg

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Clearly a vintage game die, but it reminds me of the one that came with a game I used to have called "Wff 'N' Proof" - did I get it?

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It is an ancient coffin for ancient Egyptian stop signs.

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It's not a D6, it's a D8 that landed on 0.

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BuffaloSnow is close (#11), but it is a die from an adjustable stamp/seal. Probably one of the numbers to change the time or date.
Skull and Swords - XL

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It's looooog, it's log! It's big, it's heavy, it's wood! It's looooog, it's log. it's better than bad, it's good!

silence is golden, duct tape is silver.. small

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Oh! change that to the schroedinger's cat T, please! Still small :)

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A piece from a perpetual calendar

All you need is Heart-XL

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It reminds me of a playing piece from an old game called Put n' Take.

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Oh geez, forgot to add my tshirt! lol

Comic Skull/Crossbone 2XL.

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It is an Allen Key of sorts.

you stick it in the hexagonal hole, about half the height, and grip the top with a spanner and turn.

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It's what's left of your mom Timmy. There was an accident at the factory and...she..she was compressed... into this handy paperweight.

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It's a dice that determines how many times I'll call her each day....*sob*

Birds and the bees shirt please! Size S

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Its actually a very boring paint by numbers puzzle

Mclovin shirt :) Medium

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It's a Victorian-era hexagon detector. One puts it in a (suspected) hexagon, and if there is a 1:1 ratio for the number of sides then one has a genuine six-sided figure in your hands.

This one is rather simple but there were more ornate designs available to the English upper class at the time, gilded and inset with ivory. There are also heptagon detectors from the era, but they are considerably rarer and thus much more valuable.

"suppoort cloning", chocolate and XL please

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I spent hours and days as a schoolboy playing tabletop cricket with two hexagonal rollers like that. One had numbers on to represent a score of runs off one ball, but you didn't ever score five, only 1, 2, 3, 4, 'Howzat!' and 6. Howzat meaning an appeal for which you rolled the other roller to find it was caught, lbw, no ball, run out or whatever.

Anyway, it's a game roller for a tabletop sports game but obviosly not cricket, presumably something american, basketbase or something.

Cheers.

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Wait, wait... it's a 35-pound dumbbell buried up to its neck! The poor thing.

"pillage then burn", military green xl (if this one is fortunate enough to win)

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It's a hexagonal prism made of wood with numbers on it.

Hip hip array, L

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my guess is a piece from a 3d type calendar

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Its obviously a prototype of a 8 sided dice for dungeon and dragons.

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This is from the silent film era and is the revolving number plate for James Bond's Model-T Ford. The car also had an ejector-seat (a mule hidden under the passenger seat for which Bond had a poking-stick to irritate it), and to avoid pursuit it could drop hundreds of banana-skins at the tug of a lever

I heart maths XL

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It is a bronze sex toy for female robots of course.
Basically it is inserted into the female robot's hexobulator and rotated.

I will not go into explicit details as this is a family website, but I think you can use your imagination to figure out the rest.

fuzzy wuzzy logic - xl

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A Department of Transportation road marker?

You're Not the Boss of Me ... My Cat Is - 2XL

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The above item was used in the ancient art of alchemy. It let the fates tell you how many drops of unicorn blood were needed to successfully turn lead into gold. If it landed on its side, then the time wasn't right.

***Support Bacteria, 2XL***

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it's robot poop!
astronomers do it under the stars- 2xl

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