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"roll a die" will roll a six-sided die, [95] [23] and since c. August 2019, four, eight, ten, twelve or twenty-sided dice individually or as multiples in user selected combinations, all with an optional modifier to either add or subtract from the roll total. [106]
A very common notation, considered a standard, expresses a dice roll as nds or nDs, where n is the number of dice rolled and s is the number of sides on each die; if only one die is rolled, n is normally not shown. For example, d4 denotes one four-sided die; 6d8 means the player should roll six eight-sided dice and sum the results.
Five dice showing 41,256, which denotes "monogram" on an updated EFF cryptographic word list. Diceware is a method for creating passphrases, passwords, and other cryptographic variables using ordinary dice as a hardware random number generator. For each word in the passphrase, five rolls of a six-sided die are required.
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E.g. a roll of 2-2-4 gives the banker a point of 4. Note that one cannot set a point of 1 or 6, as those would result in an automatic loss or win, respectively (see above). Re-roll: If the dice do not show any of the above combinations, then the banker rolls again and keeps rolling until they get an instant win or an instant loss, or sets a point.
It consists of the set of dice, the cup, the scorecards and a tray for the dice to roll on, which includes a holder for the dice to be saved for the next roll. The cup has an oblong lip for easy storage. In addition to the game folio, Hasbro also released Yahtzee to Go. It comes with a dice cup that stores the dice and contents.
Dice towers have been used since at least the fourth century, in an attempt to ensure that dice roll outcomes were random. [1] The Vettweiss-Froitzheim Dice Tower is a surviving example, used by Romans in Germany; it has essentially the same design as modern examples, with internal baffles to force the dice to rotate more randomly.
Liar's dice is a class of dice games for two or more players requiring the ability to deceive and to detect an opponent's deception. In "single hand" liar's dice games, each player has a set of dice, all players roll once, and the bids relate to the dice each player can see (their hand) plus all the concealed dice (the other players' hands).