A performance art related to juggling and sleight of hand in which the performer scoops dice off a flat surface using a dice cup and stacks them into vertical columns, relying on the centripetal force and inertia created by particular movements of the cup; canceled casino dice are favored for the hobby because their square edges and extra weight stack more easily. Practitioners vary the stack through different dice arrangements, colors, scooping methods and props, with the normal stack, the fast stack and the point stack among the most commonly performed versions, and the hobby has organized competition, Germany having hosted a national dice stacking championship, using a purpose-built DiceBoard and full-area and speed-area categories, in May 2008.
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Dice stacking is a performance art, akin to juggling or sleight-of-hand, in which the performer scoops dice off a flat surface with a dice cup and then sets the cup down while moving it in a pattern that stacks the dice into a vertical column via centripetal force and inertia.
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