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 ...

It's been a long time since I scraped through my probability and stats class in college... There is a time-killing dice game a friend (seems to have) invented: You start with a pool 10 6-sided ...

Over time, dice used in playing games have changed in shape and size and evolved with considerations about fairness, chance and probability. Whether at a casino playing craps or engaging with family ...

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.

The dice used by gamers and gamblers in northern Europe became much more fair about 600 years ago. What’s more, the pattern on the faces changed, and these trends together might reflect people’s ...