These designs included a single die simulating two rolling six-sided dice (D6+D6); two binomial dice simulating flipping two and three fair coins, respectively; and three versions of a single die ...

The act of rolling a 20-sided die sits at the core of modern games like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder, while other systems rely on 10-sided or six-sided dice to carry the load.

Norse Foundry’s seven polyhedral dice set (d20, d12, 2x d10 (00-90 and 0-9), d8, d6, and d4) feature the restaurant’s cowboy hat logo embossed on the pieces.

Dice, in their standard six-sided form, seem like the simplest kind of device—almost a classic embodiment of chance. But a new study of more than 100 examples from the last 2,000 years or so ...

A six-sided cube die, for example, has 24 different symmetries. A tetrahedral die, or a four-sided die in the shape of a pyramid, has only 12 different symmetries.