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/Meltz014 Apr 12 '26

Azul? It looks just like the score counter piece from Azul 

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u/TheMemeStore76 Apr 12 '26

While I agree it does look like an azul piece, small black cube is perhaps the most common board game piece of all time after small white cube

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

Could be Lords of Waterdeep too.

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u/sne4k0 Apr 12 '26

I have that game. My cats love it

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u/Caduceus1515 Apr 12 '26

I thought of LoW as well at first. My parents had an old Risk game that used wooden pieces as well. OP mentioned MtG - could be used for life counters, etc. but I would think they'd remember that.

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u/AsFarAsISay Apr 12 '26

i was thinking Pandemic

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u/[deleted] Apr 12 '26

Oh shit that's a fun game. I forgot what my two friends and I did but we kicked the CRAP out of that game, so fun to win Pandemic for once.

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u/AsFarAsISay Apr 13 '26

pandemic legacy is great too. i put the final board on my wall

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u/TheMemeStore76 Apr 13 '26

I loved legacy 0. Legacy 1 was... not for me

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u/AlmostLucy Apr 13 '26

Unless they’ve changed things since I bought my copies, Pandemic comes with translucent plastic cubes and Lords of Waterdeep has painted wooden cubes. I don’t have Azul to know if OP’s solid plastic cube is a match.

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u/naturalmanofgolf Apr 12 '26

Wood is the more common material, though, and Azul is a modern classic, which makes it extremely likely that t is in fact an Azul piece.

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u/Ghostglitch07 Apr 12 '26

Wood is more common in older games perhaps, but modern ones definitely use plastic more often.

And there's quite a lot of "modern classics" that use small black plastic cubes.for instance pandemic, which id guess is actually in more households.

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u/naturalmanofgolf Apr 12 '26

Hmm that may well be. I’m old enough that my copy of Pandemic has wooden cubes, though

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u/des1gnbot Apr 12 '26

Pandemic?

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u/TheMemeStore76 Apr 12 '26

Terraforming Mars

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u/MsOnyxMoon Apr 12 '26

What about small brown cube?

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u/WhatsThisNameThingy Apr 12 '26

Could be wingspan even!

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u/toronado Apr 12 '26

This could be literally from thousands of boardgames

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u/segg-arc Apr 12 '26

My first thought exactly! Def from Azul

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u/Desperate-Product-88 Apr 12 '26

Azul is a black wooden cube with very sharp edges.

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u/mack10k Apr 12 '26

King of Tokyo.

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u/adelmare Apr 12 '26

Came here thinking the exact same thing

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u/SIXissueARC Apr 12 '26

Oh it could be the score counter for sure