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Post Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 2:24 pm 
 

I apologize if this has been covered before, but a search revealed no results. Does anyone know the all the different color crayons came with the Basic Sets?

I know there was only one crayon per set, just wondering how many different colors TSR used.

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Post Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 7:39 am 
 

I cannot help you - I only know them by their different flavours

  


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Post Posted: Sun May 26, 2024 12:15 pm 
 

I only have black and white crayons. I honestly cant say which color came with each set, or by printing, though.

  

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Post Posted: Wed May 29, 2024 3:49 pm 
 

The colors that I recall or have seen are black, white, red, orange, yellow, green and blue.  They have a plain paper wrapper that is usually gray for black and white.  The other colors would have a wrap of the same color as the crayon, but a lighter shade.

White and black seemed to be the most commonly used.

  

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Post Posted: Wed May 29, 2024 8:29 pm 
 

I love the question, I don't know why  :o
dbartman wrote in Crayon colors:The colors that I recall or have seen are black, white, red, orange, yellow, green and blue.  They have a plain paper wrapper that is usually gray for black and white.  The other colors would have a wrap of the same color as the crayon, but a lighter shade.

White and black seemed to be the most commonly used.

Jeff, DB's list is a pretty good checklist to validate against and I think your own research will get you there sooner than later (unless one of the wiser ones here with first hand knowledge can source the authoritative answer). I recommend visually indexing across available resources including auction histrories to see what images tell you. For example dicecollector.com shows at least three color variants (black, white, yellow) across the dragon dice packages pictured on his site: https://www.dicecollector.com/THE_DICE_THEME_TSR.html

My start date might be incorrect but Copilot doesn't seem to know much  :mrgreen:

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Post Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2024 10:47 am 
 

Thank you everyone. I just ran across two different shades of yellow also.

  


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Post Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 3:54 pm 
 

Does anyone happen to have, or know someone who has, an orange crayon, with or without dice? It is the last one I need.

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