Roll the Dice is a single line hexagonal kite with a three-legged bridle. It's a design of six dices connected in an impossible way, made out of blue and white Icarex, with black application. The drawing on the right was made during a car trip to a kite-festival and caused a severe headache when finished. The mind tries to create a three-dimensional image of dices, but due to the placement of the dices, the mind perceives alternate true and inverted dices.

The building plan for this kite is very simple... cut out six white hexagons and eighteen blue equilateral triangles (each side of the hexagons and triangles is twenty cm; don't forget the seams). Then sow three triangles to each hexagon, which will leave you with six larger equilateral triangles. These larger triangles are then sown into the large hexagonal kite. The black application (eyes and ribs of the dices) is then added and the sockets for the (eight-mm) carbon are added at the extremities of the kite. Reinforce the outer perimeter of the kite after the black application is sown on!!!

This application is a bit nasty... not only does one need to cut and  sow a hole load of black eyes for the dices, but the rounded ribs of each dice must be imitated. In order to avoid large losses in material templates for separate parts of the rib-structure were made... so give this a good thought. The three-point bridle is attached to the center and the two upper extremities of the kite and is roughly sixty cm long. As the Roll the Dice is a flat kite, it needs a very long tail!

The prototype, which flew its maiden voyage at the Festival of the Winds in  1998, was even more mind-boggling and very dynamic. However, De Vliegerende Hollander destroyed the prototype because of misplacement of the dice-eyes by a sub-contractor. Unfortunately this was done before a proper picture of the kite was made... but the Sydney Morning Herald of 14/09/1998 proves the kite did exist.

Related links
Dice Kite II: Lie-Dice, Dice Kite III: Dice Rotor, and Dice Kite IV: Dice Game