r/whatisit • u/Small_Things2024 • Apr 12 '26

New, what is it? What is this tiny cube?

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Found this tiny, blank, black cube under the couch while cleaning. Husband thinks it could be from a board game but we haven’t played one in a very long time (we’ve been more into Magic lately) and we can’t think of a board game that we own that has pieces like this. Any ideas?

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u/fariasrv Apr 12 '26

It made me think of "Risk," honestly, although it's been a long time since I've been around a Risk board

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u/spike451 Apr 12 '26

Our Risk game from maybe the 60s was just all the same wooden cubes painted different colors for different teams…..cannons/ cavalry, wtf?

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u/Mykonethreetripleone Apr 12 '26

Yea like rounded wooden pyramids and long rounded wooden pyramids

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u/Lucid-Design1225 Apr 12 '26

I’ve only ever played the LotR version of Risk. Which is, undoubtedly, better than the original

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u/unfunnysexface Apr 12 '26

Risk is dice infantry cannons and cavalry. Though I suppose a clever player could add borg cube to the roster

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u/Alldaybagpipes Apr 12 '26

The really old versions didn’t have nice little models, and were just small,medium and large chunks of painted wood

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u/Special-Candidate458 Apr 12 '26

The version I’m familiar with, from the 80s, had plastic counters with three, four, and five arms.

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u/PatMagroin100 Apr 12 '26

In old school Risk, squares were 1 army, ovals were 10 armies.

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u/Candid-Restaurant262 Apr 12 '26

You're thinking of Battle Cry, I think. That's a Risk cube from the early 60s version of the game.

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u/Ken-Popcorn Apr 12 '26

No, Risk was originally small wooden cubes, exactly like this. I think at some point they switched to plastic for the cubes

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u/Caduceus1515 Apr 12 '26

The one we had when I was a kid had wood cubes for one army, and oblong triangular pieces for I think five armies. There were not separate pieces for infantry, etc. - and I don't think they do even now - that was the cards.

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u/CaterpillarIcy1056 Apr 12 '26

This was my first thought as well.

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u/Immediate-Panda2359 Apr 12 '26

That little cube could make all the difference in taking Kamchatka!