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  2. Dice notation - Wikipedia

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    7th Sea and Legend of the Five Rings use only 10-sided dice, so it omits the number of sides, using notation of the form , meaning "roll eight ten-sided dice, keep the highest six, and sum them."Although using a roll and keep system, Cortex Plus games all use roll all the dice of different sizes and keep two (normally the two best), although a ...

  3. Dice - Wikipedia

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    A die (sg.: die or dice; pl.: dice) [1] is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values , commonly as part of tabletop games , including dice games , board games , role-playing games , and games of chance .

  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. Teetotum - Wikipedia

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    A six-sided Chinese teetotum. In its earliest form, the body was square (in some cases via a stick through a regular six-sided die [3]), marked on the four sides by the letters A (Lat. aufer, take), indicating that the player takes one from the pool, D (Lat. depone, put down) when a fine has to be paid, N (Lat. nihil, nothing), and T (Lat. totum, all), when the whole pool is to be taken.

  6. How do you play white elephant? The gift exchange rules ...

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    White Elephant rules can be customized in a variety of ways. To start, you can remove limits on steals or swaps per turn, but be warned that this will likely slow down the game. Players can also ...

  7. Glossary of tables game terms - Wikipedia

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    A die is one of usually two or three six-sided cubes used in playing a tables game. Each face of the cube is marked with a number of pips from 1 to 6 that is used in moving men or scoring. Plural: dice. division Same as quadrant. [2] doubles See doublet. doublet Two dice each with the same pip count. In some tables games, the player plays each ...

  8. Poker dice - Wikipedia

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    The sets featured five 12-sided dice allowing for all 52 playing cards to be represented. The remaining 8 faces featured stars and acted as wild cards allowing for every possible poker hand to be rolled. A two-player variant of the game Liar's Dice can be played with Poker dice. Players roll their own set of Poker dice behind a screen, and bid ...

  9. Astragalomancy - Wikipedia

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    They had four sides and were oblong in shape, with two rounded sides so they would not land on those sides. The dice had two narrow sides and two broad sides, with one of the narrow sides being flat, the other concave, while one broad side was concave and the other convex. [8] The sides were marked with the values 1,3,4 and 6, with opposing ...