Dice
A die (Old French de, from Latin datum “something provided or played”) is actually a small polyhedral object, typically cubical, made use of for creating random numbers. This makes dice […]
View ArticleOrdinary dice
The common dice are small cubes 1 to 2 cm along an edge, whose faces are numbered from one to six (usually by patterns of dots called pips). It is […]
View ArticleDice terms and probability
While the terms ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque and sice are hardly common today having been replaced with the ordinary names of the numbers one to six, they are still […]
View ArticleDice history
Dice were probably originally made from the ankle bones of hoofed animals (such as oxen), colloquially known as “knucklebones”, which are approximately tetrahedral. Even today, dice are sometimes...
View ArticleLoaded dice
A loaded or gaffed die is a die that has been tampered with to land with a selected side facing upwards more often than it would simply by chance. There […]
View ArticleMaterials for the dice used in games
It is unknown of what material the earliest polyhedral dice were made. A pair of icosahedral (20-sided) dice dating from Roman times are on display at the British Museum. Roughly […]
View ArticleNon-standard cubical dice
The faces of most dice are labelled using an unbroken series of whole numbers, starting at one (or zero), expressed with either pips or digits. Common exceptions include: colour dice […]
View ArticleNon-cubical dice
Polyhedral dice are dice with more or fewer than six sides. They were once almost exclusively used by fortune-tellers and in other occult practices, but they have become popular lately […]
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