Lou Zocchi
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Lou Zocchi

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Louis Zocchi (born c. 1935, died 2026) was a game designer, a US Air Force veteran, an amateur magician, a guitar teacher, and a maker and seller of polyhedral game dice, including the GameScience line of dice. In 1974, he was the first person in the United States to make polyhedral dice. He also holds a few dice patents such as inventing the 5-sided die and the self-named Zocchihedron, or 100-sided, die. He has…

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run Zocchi Associates, a game distributor out of Biloxi, Mississippi. He has previously been a game distributor and game publisher. Zocchi was originally from Chicago, Illinois, and he previously lived in Japan for four years where he used the Avalon Hill game Word Power game to teach English to Japanese citizens. In the mid-1960s, after serving 10 years in the US Air Force, he was living in Alamogordo, New Mexico, working as a sergeant at Holloman Air Force Base control tower. Winner of the 1986 Charles S. Roberts Hall of Fame Award at Origins '87. Zocchi passed away on 15 April, 2026. Memorial thread in wargame forum

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