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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  Plucky young polyhedron learns to play Dungeons & Dragons, saves entire party.

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  Bad luck at dice blamed for eruption of Vesuvius.

Fiction cross-reference

• Lucky Spasm Dice Academy - school for dice-throwers.
• Uncials

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Dungeons & Dragons (nonfiction)
• Polyhedral dice (nonfiction)

External links:

• Dice @ Wikipedia
• Polyhedron @ Wikipedia