Dice (nonfiction)

Achilles and Ajax playing dice.

Dice (singular die or dice; from Old French dé; from Latin datum "something which is given or played") are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.

Dice are suitable as gambling devices for games like craps and are also used in non-gambling tabletop games.

In the News

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  Squad of Uncials, ready to play some Dungeons & Dragons.

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  Bad luck at dice blamed for eruption of Vesuvius.

Fiction cross-reference

• Uncials

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)

External links:

• Dice @ Wikipedia