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2. Dice - Wikipedia

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   Capped 6-sided long die: Two six-faced long dice are used to simulate the activity of scoring runs and taking wickets in the game of cricket. Originally played with labeled six-sided pencils, and often referred to as pencil cricket. 7 Pentagonal prism: Similar in constitution to the 5-sided die. Seven-sided dice are used in a seven-player ...

3. Sicherman dice - Wikipedia

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   Crazy dice is a mathematical exercise in elementary combinatorics, involving a re-labeling of the faces of a pair of six-sided dice to reproduce the same frequency of sums as the standard labeling. The Sicherman dice are crazy dice that are re-labeled with only positive integers .

4. Platonic solid - Wikipedia

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   A set of polyhedral dice. Platonic solids are often used to make dice, because dice of these shapes can be made fair. 6-sided dice are very common, but the other numbers are commonly used in role-playing games. Such dice are commonly referred to as dn where n is the number of faces (d8, d20, etc.); see dice notation for more details.

5. Dice notation - Wikipedia

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   1d6×5 or 5×d6 means "roll one 6-sided die, and multiply the result by 5." 3d6×10+3 means "roll three 6-sided dice, add them together, multiply the result by 10, and then add 3." Multiplication can also mean repeating throws of similar setup (usually represented by the letter "x", rather than the multiplication symbol):

6. Astragalomancy - Wikipedia

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   The sides were marked with the values 1,3,4 and 6, with opposing sides adding up to seven. Unlike cubic dice, the construction of Astragaloi meant there were varying chances that a particular value would be rolled. [8] The results were then compared to what are known as “dice oracles”.

7. Intransitive dice - Wikipedia

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   An example of intransitive dice (opposite sides have the same value as those shown). Consider the following set of dice. Die A has sides 2, 2, 4, 4, 9, 9.; Die B has sides 1, 1, 6, 6, 8, 8.