While there's a beauty to the offline potential of a tabletop game, that doesn't stop this analog entertainment format from pervading the inteꦑrnet. Cultures, memes, celebrities, and myths all spread like digital wildfire. One of the more baffling but unden𝄹iable ideas to perpetuate online tabletop culture is the Wheaton Dice Curse.

Actor, performer, and internet personality Wil Wheaton has made a massive name for himself in the 'nerd' scene. From child acting in Stand By Me to his time in Star Trek, he eventually established himself as 🅷a vꦬoice for tabletop gaming of all sorts. Unfortunately, his misfortune with dice resulted in some infamy of its own. Allow us to explain.

What Is The Wheaton Dice Curse?

Wil Wheaton h♍as played countless tabletop games publicly, even hosting his tabletop show 💛for production company Geek & Sundry called TableTop. This would lead to Wheaton appearing on a number of other popular tabletop shows, such as Critical Role and the Wizards of the Coast game held at PAX 2010.

Wheaton, however, appears to have uncommonly poor luck with dice rolls, often rolling a 'critical failure' in Dungeons & Dragons games or other similarly catastrophic rolls in other tabletop games. This happened so regularly that the community (and Wheaton) took notice, calling his bizarre statistical tendencies the Wheaton Dice Curse.

There is no explanation. That is some… I don't know what ancient relic his family uncovered two generations ago that led this blood curse from generation to generation to this day, but tha♋t man breaks math and physics. I don't understand it.

Matt Mercer

He has accepted the playful nature of the curse, embracing it and openly joking about the phenome🔴non with other players. Wheaton will often call out when he's going to roll poorly, ꦺas well, to amplify the comedic value.

It also inspired a related superstition that Wheaton coming in contact with someone else's dice will cause them to also become cursed.

How Many Nat 1s Did Wil Wheaton Roll?

While we don't have the full and compl🌌ete data required to know Wheaton's lifetime total of critical failures, we do have a metric to go by.

According to stat analysis by , Wheaton rolled a D20 a total of 54 times between his guest appearance in two episodes of Critical Role. Of those rolls, ten were a 'natural one' and 25 were below a five.

Since a D20 has, well, 20 sides, then each number has only a five percent chance to appear at any given roll. Wheaton, however, rolled a one about 18.5 percent of the time. Similarly, there is a 20 percent chance of rolling below a five on a standard D20. He managed to r ll the same numbers about 48 percent of the time.