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  2. Midnight (game) - Wikipedia

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    Once kept, dice cannot be rerolled. Players must have kept a 1 and a 4, or they do not score. If they have a 1 and 4, the other dice are totaled to give the player's score. The maximum score is 24 (four 6s.) The procedure is repeated for the remaining players. The player with the highest four-dice total wins. [1]

  3. Dice notation - Wikipedia

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    Ten-sided dice intended specifically for use as percentile dice typically have no tens notation (the faces are numbered such that there are two complete sequences of 0 through 9). A roll of 0 on both dice may be interpreted as either 0 or 100, depending on the game rules; however, it is rare for the 0 on the ones die to be read as 10, making a ...

  4. Four-sided die - Wikipedia

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    The d20 System includes a four-sided tetrahedral die among other dice with 6, 8, 10, 12 and 20 faces. Tetrahedral dice are peculiar in that there is no topmost face when a die comes to rest. There are several common ways of indicating the value rolled. On some tetrahedral dice, three numbers are shown on each face.

  5. Gambling mathematics - Wikipedia

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    For example, in a five-draw poker game, the event at least one player holds a four-of-a-kind formation can be identified with the set of all combinations of (xxxxy) type, where x and y are distinct values of cards. This set has 13C(4,4)(52-4)=624 combinations. Possible combinations are (3♠ 3♣ 3♥ 3♦ J♣) or (7♠ 7♣ 7♥ 7♦ 2♣).

  6. Intransitive dice - Wikipedia

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    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. Die C has sides 3, 3, 5, 5, 7, 7. The probability that A rolls a higher number than B, the probability that B rolls higher than C, and the probability that C rolls higher than A are all ⁠ 5 / 9 ⁠, so this set of dice is intransitive. In ...

  7. Ship, captain, and crew - Wikipedia

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    For example, if the first roll of the dice shows a 6, a 4, two 3s and a 1, the player banks the 6 but must reroll the 4 because there is no 5 yet. If their second roll is a 6, a 5, a 4 and a 1 they may bank the 5 and 4 together, and now they have a full "crew" for their ship. Each player has only three rolls, and after their third they score ...

  8. Dice pool - Wikipedia

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    For example, rolling 10 six-sided dice should result in about half of the dice being 4 or more. The game designer can then express success as the number of dice with a given value — say 4 or more — allowing the designer to more accurately control the probable outcome of the desired action. [2]

  9. Dice - Wikipedia

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    Precision dice are generally made from bars of extruded cellulose acetate, sawed to the proper length to ensure that each face is as square as practical, generally with edges 3 ⁄ 4 ± 1 ⁄ 5000 in (19.0500 ± 0.0051 mm) in length, with pips drilled 17 ± 4 mils (0.43 ± 0.10 mm) deep and filled with opaque paint or epoxy which matches the ...