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 ...

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A joint research team from Carnegie Mellon University, NVIDIA, and Adobe has published a paper on how to predict the orientation in which a rigid object that does not deform when rolled, such as a ...

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Let’s take a quick pop quiz on statistics and probabilities. Given six dice, what is the probability of getting a 1-2-3-4-5-6 combination in one try? In the context of the Chinese, that particular six ...