Model: Chance Cube
Type: Gambling Device
Cost: 5 credits
Availability: 1
Background: A chance cube, also formatted as chance-cube, or alternatively known as a die, was a gambling device in the form of a small cube. Some types of chance-cube could only give two results after being thrown, as three of their sides were one color, while the other three were another color. Toydarians like Watto or King Katuunko were known for using such chance-cubes. Imperial cadets Pandak Symes and Nazhros Oleg used a chance cube to decide who would get the bottom bunk in their barracks, with Symes winning the roll.
Another variant had from one to six dots marked on each side of the cube. Han Solo had a pair of such cubes decorating the cockpit of his starship, the Millennium Falcon. It was Solo’s copilot, Chewbacca, who had hung the cubes as a joke inside the ship’s cockpit several years before the Battle of Yavin.
In grav-ball, the team that won the chance-cube toss got to start at the center of the game’s grid.
During the Battle of Eriadu, Abediah Viess gave three golden chance cubes to her crew so they use them to decide who would pick the next target for orbital bombardment.
Appearances: Episode I The Phantom Menace
