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
"It was sort of the throw of the dice."
From BBC • May 14, 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
Henry’s simulated baseball, which relies on dice and charts, will sound vaguely familiar to anyone who has played Strat-O-Matic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026
The probability of obtaining exactly one 4 among the three dice is likewise determined by breaking the event into the three mutually exclusive ways it can happen.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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