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 ...

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One of my favorite booths at Toy Fair this year was Thinkfun. They make a wide array of puzzle games with multiple games for each age group. I spent nearly half an hour talking to the founders of the ...

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 ...

Why are dice cubes? Okay, nerds, yes, some are tetrahedra, or dodecahedra, or icosahedra, or whatever else your TTRPG calls for – but the point is, they’re all regular, symmetrical, perfectly balanced ...

What's a friendly game of dice between billionaires? Warren Buffett famously once attempted to bamboozle his fellow magnate and philanthropist Bill Gates in a game of nontransitive dice. While a set ...