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Shake 'em Dice – Education Game Review
Shake 'em Dice is a Education game from Robert Seber, first launched in 18th April 2013.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 290+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Shake 'em Dice Stand Out
Fantastic if you need dice for a board game, for entertaining a young child or for studying probability in maths.
Tilt, twist and shake your phone to make the dice roll and tumble using realistic 3D physics. It's as if you have real dice inside your phone.
Red dice are free. Green dice, gold coins, 3, 5, 8, 10, 12 and 20 sided dice are available as an in-app purchase.
Pinch to zoom, tap to show options, shake or double tap to automatically shake the dice.
Add and remove dice and watch them tumble!
This Education game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Shake 'em Dice is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th May 2020
Recent improvements include:
Buttons shrink slightly when tapped
Tap dice to exit color mode
Download & Availability
Shake 'em Dice is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Shake 'em Dice on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Simple dice roller that sounds and moves like real ones.
It would be a 5 star app if you could change the size of the dice. They are pretty small, albeit accurate in size. Update: in response from the developer, problem solved! Use two fingers to zoom in and out! Thanks.
Had the rest ! Now we have the best for our games.
It was great! We love the diversity and multiplayer is a blast.
It does the dice trick role when shake great game weird dice.
We like to make basic decisions through chance. We don't always keep dice on us and we even lamented not bringing our D20 while on vacation. Certainly easier and more convenient to have such a thing on your phone, especially when you're at a restaurant or a bar. Only problem is all these other dice apps seem to use number generation only, cleverly disguised or otherwise. While there's probably no difference between rolling physical or digital dice, the efficacy of the latter and by extension RNG is certainly very questionable. Neither here nor there of course. Point is, this app answers this problem for us intelligently. Instead of pressing a button to, in theory, roll dice, it uses physics powered by the iPhone's gyroscope and accelerometer to put the power in your hands to shake the dice as long as you want and roll however you please, with assurance that you're getting a true roll in the palm of your hand. Individual dice cost a dollar each, but you can buy all the dice offered in the app for two dollars. That's a coin, numbered variety D6, customizable pip-variety D6, a D4, a D5, A D8, a D10, a percentile D10, a D12, and a D20 for a fraction of the cost for a set of Chess*x. Not to mention that you get the added value of being able to take the dice with you wherever you go, so long as your phone's charged. The possibilities are endless, not just making decisions. Impromptu games of Yahtzee at a party, make up for missing dice in Monopoly, generate an invoice number in your small business, teach children math. WHATEVER.
Great Dice App. Love the tangibility of the dice. Laying our iPad down on the tabletop, its so close to actually having real dice right there in front of us. Great for educational activities. Only thing we would add is the ability to select dice to set aside, so as to not re-roll them. Many activities and games requires this function. Other than that, well done & thank you.
PHYSICS INTENSIFY AND we LOVE THE SOUNDS AND THE. Bum bum bum when you shake it and ur volume is all the way down.
Its hard because we cant buy any dice its just easier to use an app which free dice instead or make our own private game but we get it money can make you greaty.
App flashes on and off our iPhone. It works on the iPad. Unfortunate.. Because you need the dice on a separate device while on Google Classroom on the iPad.
Got us through coronavirus, without you we would have had to make puzzles.
This is genuinely the best app Ive ever used and it definitely brings us too much joy. Try putting it over your head:).
We were walking alone when suddenly a man came up behind us and started attacking us. We were sooo scared but then we remembered our sauce app. We flung it out with our greatest velocity and rolled a solid 32. The attacker was so taken aback by our roll skills that he preemptively combusted and faded from existence. Ever since that day we have been sober, and learned the miracle that is dice.
You start out with a default dice. There's a button to add and subtract as many dice as you need for whatever game you're playing. We've tested, we've had around 70 dice at once, just to see how far it would go. You aren't bombarded with adds either. It's 99 cents to buy another type of dice, which is either cost the same or cheaper than physical dice. Which, if you can't run to the store, it's a great sub. Our Best friend came over and this app save our game of Monopoly. 10/10 would recommend.
We love this app . We love dice . Thank u.
But please add the option of 20 side dice.
That we love how realistic the dice appear to be in the screen, like a glass box.
This app produces 3D dice for gaming You can pinch to zoom out and you can have as many dice as you like for free (tap the screen and hit the + for more). For types of dice other than your standard 6-sided one, you must pay. They roll perfectly. All you have to do is lightly move your device back and forth or even just tilt it; no vigorous shaking needed (the story from the reviewer with a child violently shaking their iPad sounds horrifying ). We just scoot it back and forth on the carpet and it rolls for us.
Works wonderful for d&d, thanks much.
Does exactly what it's supposed to do and does it well.
This is such a simple yet beautiful app! 10/10 would dice again.
Very entertaining. Useful in so many ways. The extra dice are pricey but it doesn't really matter since it comes with one and it's good. Amazing app. Love it.
Nothing fancy, covers the bases for most dice rolling needs. Nice touches (e.g. The dice hitting the screen when turned upside down.).
Got tired of chasing dice when they rolled off the table when playing with grandkids. This has been a real game changer. Now the grandkids love to shake our phone and we are not trying to get dice out from under the couch, counter, etc.
Helped us not believe our cheating brother for the scum he is.
We recommend this game to anyone very entertaining.
Saved our boardgame day when we didn't have any dice around.
Us and our friends can never decide what to do and we always end up asking Siri to roll a die and now that we got this app we can roll the dice ourselves. 100% would recommend.
Great app! One of the best dice apps out there. The only thing we could add, is that the extra dice are a bit overpriced. If the creators could bring down the prices on the extra dice, we think that many more people would buy them! You wouldnt have to bring them down much, just like, 30 cents or so. Thanks for reading.
This app is very useful when family game night rolls around because if we can't find any of our dice we can just use this free app instead of buying a dice at the store.
Wish you could pick a background. On the 12 sided die the 6 shows as a 12 on the upper corner. Also 6 and 9 should have lines under. Other than that pretty good.
We were over at our brothers house. His youngest wanted to play a board game and as a fellow youngest chIld we often play games with him more than spend time with other family members.nAfter looking through two different Operation (complete with buzzer) boxes with most of the pieces missing, he chose monopoly Jr. By now you know where we are gong with this. Yes the game had everything but dice. He was disappointed, we were annoyed and asked him if he knew where any dice might be, he didn't and we were irritated but before we put the game back in the box we searched the App Store. Yup, you know it! We found and downloaded this app. It was exactly what was needed although by the third time our nephew took our iPad and shook it hard to roll the dice we acted like an over protective mother and warned him that the game was over if he shook our device like that again. The app was perfect and we played a great game and had a lot of fun together. As a former player of D&D we would have loved an app like this if the dice weren't so expensive. We could go to a strategy toy store and buy expensive dice boxes for the prices this app charges. But since we only needed six siders it was perfect. Recently we had to delete it for space. But any time we need extra six siders we will download it again.
Good for practicing spelling words but we don't like that some dice cost money.
We love the sound of the dice and how easy it is to use, the only thing wrong about it is the fact that you have to pay to use other ones.
As it was a simple and nice dice generator we got this app and paid for the in app purchases and… NOTHING. Other than that it was pretty good. Would recommend( not The in app purchases though!).
The dice roll mechanism is weird and its both hard to shake up the dice and to have them land in a clear readable fashion. They vibrate rapidly when at rest and if they touch the corners or sides of the screen they dont land flat leaving room for argument as to whether the roll is legit. We also cant figure out whether to roll with the screen upright or flat. Either way, it is very difficult to read a 4-sided die roll. We wish these dice worked better. We prefer the real thing and BTW you can buy like 5 to 10 packs of real dice (4-sided, 5-sided, 6-sided, 8, 10, 20, and 100) for less than this glitchy app.
As a teacher we would love to recommend this app. As we assign homework in which students must use dice, and astonishingly, not everyone has dice these days. However, when the sum is supplied it defeats the purpose of rolling and adding dice. Is there a way to turn off this option? It would improve the app. Significantly.
A coin counts as a "dice" on this app?! How misleading.
We would buy this for 1 dollar if it included everything, but to only give us one choice of die and then make each type another dollar purchase is stupid.
We hate the game because no fun In it.
It claims we purchased different die for .99 but we had no intention of doing so. It was literally we went to roll the dice and it was now telling us its charging us .99. Thanks for ripping us off. When we submitted a ticket to Apple for a refund it was denied. What a joke.
App allowed for in-app purchase by fingerprint while we wasn't on a purchase screen. So annoying.
This game should be takin off the App Store, this game is dumb.
This game is bad dont get it its not even a game.
Buttons are so small and close together we cant help but hit buy, two button licks and we were tricked out of $2. The app is poor and rips you off. Well designed from that standpoint.
Why do you have to pay for almost every thing you only get we dice and you have to use only that.
Makes no sense, ugly, unresponsive and you have to buy all but the D6. Do not recommend.
Charging money for simple dice mechanics is outlandish.
Not very good. App keeps closing and can't see numbers very well.
Dice don't stop rolling and you HAVE to shake your device in order to get them to do anything to begin with.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.16
- Size: 326.52 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Robert Seber]()
Last updated: 19th May 2020 | Genre: Education | Developer: Robert Seber