Attempting poker chipset design

• 13 March 2009
• Category: Game Tangent

The perrenial discussion of poker chips has resurfaced yet again and for odd reasons I’ve taken to fiddling with ChipTalk’s Chip Factory. It is a cute little system.

The chipset I finally came up with:

Among the design’s advantages, asides from using a moderately standard colour sequence, are that the edgespots bind to both the previous and next chip in the sequence, including wrapping around the ends of course¹. Thus the chips themselves form explicit documentation on their relative placement within the value ranking system².

My normal poker chip requirement list:

• At least 7 visually distinct colours including white, red, green, black or blue
• At least 10 grams per chip (11.5 preferred — I’ve used dice/suited chips so much they feel right to me)
• Inter-chip friction important (stacking/non-slippy)
• Edge spots preferred must not interfere with chip colour recognition
• No writing on the chip (that includes no denominations)

The above set mostly match that.

Gahh! I posted the wrong image and didn’t notice. Corrected:

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