So it turns out, I have to learn how to do this by noon tomorrow. The cool thing is I watched a single tutorial and successfully did it within my first few tries. The not cool thing is a couple hours later, I'm still not getting consistent results. I need to be able to stack 3, then 4, then 5 dice within a couple minutes. My best so far is managing to stack 5 three times in a row. And three is just pretty easy to do at this point.
Why do you need to be able to do this by noon tomorrow?
I mean, it's a nifty physics trick but I don't see the real world application.
It's part of a week of daily contest events at work. The office is broken out into 7 competing teams. We had a week like this not too long ago, and one of the teams pissed off everyone else in the office by being hyper-competitive and bending rules. So everyone wants to beat them. This time around, my team is neck and neck with that one, and everybody else is already way behind. So we're under a bunch of pressure to take them down. Dice stacking is today's event, and as of yesterday, almost nobody knew how to do it. Only one person in the whole office could do it with any consistency, and they're on the team we have to beat.
When I first started practicing, I made sure to play some Eye of the Tiger and Bon Jovi and stuff in true 80s training montage style
Training paid off! I was the only person in the whole office outside of the rival team to successfully stack 5 dice, and I did it in the 2nd best time, sealing 2nd place for my team in the event. It took me 22 seconds to stack 3, then 4, then 5 dice in succession. The whole office chanted my name and dealt out high fives. In the overall week-long ranking, we're now exactly tied.
Everybody wants us to beat this other team, because they're literally pushing their work off on other people so they can spend most of the working days practicing this stuff and coming up with dirty tricks to give them an advantage.