Anyone know about dice?

A few different types of dice, and I don't have a clue. Thanks for your time.
Pic #1, What type of dice? Sort of yellow in color. Scrabble?, but all the vintage Scrabble dice I find are wood. These are some type of hard plastic?
Pic #2 small wood dice with various letters?
Pic #3 & 4 again various letters, and what are they made of?
Pic #5 just basic vintage dice?

 

Aren't those cube one with the letters and numbers for that game... Can't think of the name. Boggle?

 

Pics 3 & 4 and 5 look like they might be bakelite (pics 3 & 4 would be butterscotch bakelite).

Do you have any simichrome to test them?

Bakelite dice can sell pretty well.

 

Thank you silver & tiediecat! I really appreciate the help. I don't have any simichrome. I will try to get some soon. I was just reading online how to test for Bakelite. Can't wait to try it. I think I have an old ring that might be bakelite too. I'll update when I find out about the dice. Thanks again

 

A baking soda and water paste, rubbed on, can do the same job. Or pink/purple paste silver polish. Rubbed on with a q-tip, bakelite will turn the q-tip yellow. If you're quick, you can smell the stink too at the rubbed spot. If you have a good sniffer, you may just be able to use your thumb. Rub hard until the plastic heats up and smell for the stinky formaldehyde. Photos 3 and 4 look like bakelite, and I wouldn't be surprised about the last one either.

 

Thanks evelyb
Ok, I tried baking soda paste, and that seemed to work. Then tried wrights silver polish, and that seemed to work too. I couldn't find simichrome. Went to Lowe's this morning, but they didn't have it. Just not sure about the results of what I did do....the dice in pics 3&4 do turn dark yellow. The dice in pic 5 turn yellow, but not quite as dark as the others, so I'm not sure about those. They all seem to have the same smell though, so?? Just not sure. I may try to see where else I can find simichrome.
Found a diamond shape on a side of the dice in the first pic. I'll do some digging to try and find out what game that could be. Didn't see the diamond until today.
Thanks everyone for the help.

 

If the clear ones have the same smell, you've got bakelite there too. They called the clear kind "prystal". The red bakelite doesn't oxidize as much as the white does, by a mile, so I wouldn't bother going hunting for simichrome.

 

My reply showed up in your quote? I don't know what I did wrong oops!
I was saying thanks Evelyb so kind of you to help me.

 

Boggle doesn't score by letters used, but by the lengths of words found in the grid, so they aren't for that game. These are really odd in that the orientation of the letters isn't the same from cube to cube. Some centered on the side, others to the left or right of center. Very strange.

 

Scrabble dice? There was a travel game with dice like that.

 

I didn't even notice that until you said that bakersgma. That is strange.
Here is another pic showing a few more of the dice. Only a couple of them have a diamond shape. I can't find anything with this diamond shape in my searches.
Thanks bakersgma & evelyb. I'll keep looking at Scrabble, maybe I'll find one with the diamonds.

 

OHO. Those ARE Scrabble dice. The diamonds are the blanks.

 

Don't bother looking for slimychrome. All it's good for is making a mess of what you're trying to clean. A far better indicator of Bakelite is undiluted Formula 409.

No pink goo

 

Hubby 2 and I used to play license plate cribbage.

 

I've never had any problems using simichrome.

I bought some original formula 409 a few months back, and there was no change of color on the q-tip even for items that I knew for a fact were bakelite. I don't know if they changed the formula or what.

 

Well that would be Formula 410

 

Thanks everyone for all the advice.

 

Thanks evelyb! How nice to know that!