dice

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Dungeons & Dragons is a tabletop roleplaying game where players create fantasy characters and roll dice to determine whether their actions, like a sword attack or a persuasive argument, are successful against their foes.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2026

“There is no way to slice and dice this report to water down the horrible headline,” writes John Ryding, chief economic advisor at Brean Capital.

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

Johnson revealed that the new film uses the same dice as the original 1995 film starring Robin Williams, commenting: "Robin, as we like to say, this one's for you."

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Using a new classification approach, a study determined that artifacts from more than 12,000 years ago were actually dice used by North American hunter-gatherers.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026

To find the probability that no 4s come up when we roll three dice, we find how much probability is left over.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos