Playing Dice. Dice are small throwable objects that can rest in multiple positions, used for generating random numbers.
Dice are commonly used in tabletop games, including dice games, board games, and role-playing games, and for gambling. A traditional die is a cube with each of its six faces marked with a different number of dots from one to six.
When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing on its upper surface a random integer from one to six, each value being equally likely. Dice may also have polyhedral or irregular shapes and may have faces marked with numerals or symbols instead of pips.
Loaded dice are designed to favor some results over others for cheating or entertainment. Dice have been used since before recorded history, and it is uncertain where they originated.
It is theorized that dice developed from the practice of fortune-telling with the talus of hoofed animals, colloquially known as knucklebones. The Egyptian game of senet was played with flat two-sided throwsticks which indicated the number of squares a player could move, and thus functioned as a form of dice. Senet was played before 3000 BC and up to the 2nd century AD. Perhaps the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800-2500 BC. Excavations from ancient tombs in the Indus Valley civiliz
Dice are commonly used in tabletop games, including dice games, board games, and role-playing games, and for gambling. A traditional die is a cube with each of its six faces marked with a different number of dots from one to six.
When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing on its upper surface a random integer from one to six, each value being equally likely. Dice may also have polyhedral or irregular shapes and may have faces marked with numerals or symbols instead of pips.
Loaded dice are designed to favor some results over others for cheating or entertainment. Dice have been used since before recorded history, and it is uncertain where they originated.
It is theorized that dice developed from the practice of fortune-telling with the talus of hoofed animals, colloquially known as knucklebones. The Egyptian game of senet was played with flat two-sided throwsticks which indicated the number of squares a player could move, and thus functioned as a form of dice. Senet was played before 3000 BC and up to the 2nd century AD. Perhaps the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800-2500 BC. Excavations from ancient tombs in the Indus Valley civiliz
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