Look at anything long enough, you’ll start wondering about its particulars, and odds are that more than a few of our readers have stared at a die and genuinely pondered it. Is one face of a 30-sided ...

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 ...

Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.

In Roman times, dice were visibly lopsided and were unbalanced in the arrangement of numbers By 1450, dice players and makers seemingly figured out that form affected function when it came to rolling ...

JEFF: How likely is it that Putter will make this shot, Janine? JANINE: The probability? Well, he needs to get his shot past that Pineapple Windmill. JEFF: The ...

The puzzle as presented last Monday: Chuck-a-luck is a dice game played with three dice that are rolled within a closed container. After wagers on the numbers 1-6 (from each face on a standard die) ...

Let’s take a quick pop quiz on statistics and probabilities. Given six dice, what is the probability of getting a 1-2-3-4-5-6 combination in one try? In the context of the Chinese, that particular six ...

The Goekes had a problem to solve. As a family of avid board game players in Lakewood, they wanted to create a game that was both accessible and fun for all ages. They found inspiration in dice ...