Die

For subjects and articles sharing the same name, to see die (homonymy).

One die is an object, generally of small size and form which makes it possible to draw by chance in a list from possibilities. It is probably of origin , where it was used in particular to play Chaturanga, one of the ancestors of play of failure. One found besides in France of the sets of failures close to Chaturanga, dating from the Romance time being also played with dice, where the king represented the attributes of .

Six faces of die to be played ordinary comprise one between 1 and 6. It makes it possible to advance its pawn in the many ones . The sum of two opposite faces always makes 7 (6+1, 5+2, 4+3).

Various types of dice

Dice having less or more than six faces are used for like certain plays of plate:

• with 4 faces
• with 8 faces
• decahedron with 10 faces. It is generally used per pair to generate the numbers from 0 to 100, one appearing tens (00, 10, 20... up to 90), the other units (from 0 to 9). The position of faces 00 and 0 accounts for 0 or 100 according to the play
• dodecahedron with 12 faces
• icosahedron with 20 faces

There exists also much of other types of dice, more or less running and used:

• round dice, ballasted to be able to stop
• dice pipés, nonrandom, giving a privileged result but however uncontrolled
• dice with 37 faces, to replace a caster of casino
• dice in , for the blind men
• dice pokers, comprising the figures servant, injury, king, the ace, the nine and the ten
• generally fluorescent, phosphorescent dice, cut with the crystal shapes or having disproportionate sizes, which make the joy of the collectors

Several plays are based on the dice, such as the 421 and it .

The dice pipés as for them, are adulterated dice in an unperceivable way with an aim of frequently falling on the same figures. They are used for to cheat.

Expressions

• "the dice are thrown. ", translation of « Alea jacta is. ", sentence pronounced by after it crossed it .
  This sentence means that one made an irreversible action, and that the future is between the hands of chance.
• "a toss of the dice", represents the chance.
  Here an example: this operation was exploited a toss of the dice. This sentence signife that a great part of the aforementioned operation was achieved by the chance, by the chance.

See too

Related articles

• Jet of die (role play)
• Kinito