From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.

It sounds like a homework problem out of a high school math book: What is the probability of rolling a pair of dice 154 times continuously at a craps table, without throwing a seven? The answer is ...

Here’s a deceptively simple exercise: Come up with a random phone number. Seven digits in a sequence, chosen so that every digit is equally likely, and so that your choice of one digit doesn’t affect ...

Six-sided dice from the ancient Roman Empire left little to fate—even if those playing with the dice believed fate decided the outcomes of their games. A recent study from Jelmer Eerkens of the ...