From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

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Six-sided dice from the ancient Roman Empire left little to fate—even if those playing with the dice believed fate decided the outcomes of their games. A recent study from Jelmer Eerkens of the ...

As Bill Gates tells the story, Warren Buffett once challenged him to a game of dice. Each would select one of four dice belonging to Buffett, and then they’d roll, with the higher number winning.

Two coins are tossed, finding the probability that two heads are obtained. Note: Each coin has two possible outcomes H (heads) and T (Tails). A die is rolled and a coin is tossed, find the probability ...

Marie has one regular die labeled with the numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and a second cube that is completely blank. She labels this cube in a special way. If you roll ...

Why are dice cubes? Okay, nerds, yes, some are tetrahedra, or dodecahedra, or icosahedra, or whatever else your TTRPG calls for – but the point is, they’re all regular, symmetrical, perfectly balanced ...

What's a friendly game of dice between billionaires? Warren Buffett famously once attempted to bamboozle his fellow magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates in a game of nontransitive dice. While a set ...