The Magic 8-ball toy is a toy usually good for maybe one or two laughs before it quickly gets boring. Even so, some have been known to make all their important life/strategic decisions using it, or an equivalent mechanism. The way the toy works is you ask it a question, shake it, and the answer to your question appears in a little viewport. What you’re seeing is one side of an icosahedron (20-sided polyhedron, or for you D&D folks, a d20). On each face of the d20 is a potential answer to your yes or no question. ...