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 ...

In Roman times, dice were visibly lopsided and were unbalanced in the arrangement of numbers By 1450, dice players and makers seemingly figured out that form affected function when it came to rolling ...

Six-sided dice from the ancient Roman Empire left little to fate—even if those playing with the dice believed fate decided the outcomes of their games. A recent study from Jelmer Eerkens of the ...

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Introduction Have you ever heard anyone say the chance of something happening is “50–50”? What does that actually mean? This phrase has something to do with probability. Probability tells you how ...

Here’s a deceptively simple exercise: Come up with a random phone number. Seven digits in a sequence, chosen so that every digit is equally likely, and so that your choice of one digit doesn’t affect ...

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 ...

Candidates are often asked to answer obscure or tricky math and probability questions during job interviews at tech companies like Google and Amazon. This dice problem, as demonstrated on YouTube by ...

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