[1] Lou Zocchi was one of the first editors for Avalon Hill's magazine, The General, and a regular contributor during its first 11 years of publication.

[2] He also playtested such early wargames as Bismark, Afrika Korps, Jutland, Stalingrad, and a number of titles Avalon Hill did not publish.

[2] As a board wargame designer, his credits include Luftwaffe, The Battle of Britain, Alien Space, and Flying Tigers, as well as the 3-, 5-, 14-, 24-, and 100-sided die.

[3]: 73, 145 Zocchi also designed and published the Star Fleet Battle Manual (1977) miniatures rules, which he licensed from Franz Joseph, and in 1979 Zocchi's friend Stephen Cole licensed the rights from Joseph to publish the Star Fleet Battles game.

[3]: 10  Zocchi helped Judges Guild with their financial difficulties in the early 1980s by paying them $350 every time they gave him the rights to reprint their out-of-print supplements.

The result is that plastic dice originally molded evenly are unevened and unbalanced, making them more likely to land on some numbers than on others.

Tests by Jason Mills in 1987 and published in White Dwarf magazine showed that his Zocchihedron had a significantly uneven number distribution.

[8] In Issue 35 of The Space Gamer January 1981), American game designer Steve Jackson noted the book's largest drawback was that it verged on being out of date: "Most of the basic advice is still sound, but many of the names on those lists are certainly obsolete.

Jackson also warned that the result would not be pretty, since Zocchi was advising self-publishers how to save money.