Estimating the cost of the Pile of Actual Gold item you win in Spin to Win

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Let’s get down to the basics: I am measuring each gold bullion by using proportion to the player model.

Please keep in mind these are all estimates to proportions, and therefore it will not be 100% accurate and I will use the word estimated a lot.

Let’s assume the male player model is of average American height, which is ~177 cm (using metric for simplicity sake)

Length
Now the length of one gold bullion is about 3.4x (using a ruler to the monitor) less than the player model’s height, so it can be assumed that the length is
approximately ~52.06 cm

Height/Width
Gold bullion is typically molded into a trapezoid like shape, which the “Pile of Gold” accurately portrays. For the most accurate estimate, we will be using the equation to calculate the area of a trapezoid (A=(b1+b2)/2h).
The widest base, or b2, is approximately 2.4x smaller (again using a ruler) in comparison to the length. 52.06/2.4 = ~21.66 (sparing the extended digits of 52.06 which gave 21.66 its more accurate calculation. 21.66 is also rounded to 21+2/3 for simplicity sake).
The thinner base, or b1, is approximately 4/5 of the size of b2. 21.66670.8 gives the estimated calculation of 17.33 (rounded to 17+1/3).
The last variable, height, is approximately 3/4 of the size of b2. 21.6667*0.75 gives the estimated calculation of 16.25.
Inputting these values into the equation, (21.6767+17.3334/2)*16.25 gives out the value of 316.88 cm^2.

Finishing up
Now that we have estimated values for both area and length, we can approximate the volume of each bullion. 316.88*~52.06 = 16496.7728 cm^3.
Now that we have the volume, we can multiply that with the given density of pure, elemental gold (19.32 grams/cm^3) to get a value of 318,717.65 grams or a whopping 318 kilograms (yes, thats a FUCK ton of gold.)

But wait, theres more!

According to goldprice.org, the price of gold per gram at the time of this post is $39.50 USD/g. Pushing this into our nerd box, we get a freakin $12,589,347 USD street value for EACH bar.
Now considering into fact that you win a pile of 7 bullions at the casino, you multiply this value to get a final value of $88,125,430 USD . More than 88 mil in this one item.

And they say the casino is rigged.

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My answer is…
PIE

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15000 units :stuck_out_tongue:
jk, good work

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52cm long! you do realise that’s 1.7 foot (20.4inches). I’m pretty sure the bars are nowhere near that long which messes everything else up.

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While I was taking proportions, I was surprised to learn how long/big the bars were in comparison to the player model. Since this is a fictional game, bars like these shouldn’t exist realistically (the biggest gold bar weighed 250 kg). I assume they had trouble creating realistic proportions in the modeling program, or wanted the bars to be comically large.

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There’s a way to get actual meter length of objects. A wooden wall is 3 meters in length, so using scale to measure it you can get a much more accurate measurement of the gold bars. You can measure any object by standing at its two sides and using “Find Items” on it to find distance. Once you stand at both sides add the two sides together to get absolute length. Also I believe it is always 0.01 meters less than it actually is.
I used this method to measure someone’s tower up to the tallest building in the world, Burj Khalifa. It was taller. I also used this method to measure the size of smooth dirt’s skybox, in this thread.

Also, your USD amount for the gold bars can kind of be converted to units.
Using my (albiet not that accurate) mug conversion method
(“Using the coffee mug as a base, a cheap plain white coffee mug is like $1.29, and it costs 50 units ingame, so that means the conversion for units to dollars is Dollars * 38.7596899 = Units or Units / 38.7596899 = Dollars. (That mean’s people with one million units have $25,800 in equivalent dollars)”)
as quoted from my thread linked above, your USD can be converted to 3,415,714,340 units.
I don’t think anyone even has three billion units. So… damn.

I’ll go ahead and measure them for you if i can
–MEASURED THEM–
As accurately as i could, my measurements are:

In an image for reference as to which side I mean. No idea of the height.

Credit to Umbra for letting me use his gold bar and standing in exact spots and using find item.

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If only you could sell the pile of gold for that much.

I would be rich

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