Look at anything long enough, you’ll start wondering about its particulars, and odds are that more than a few of our readers have stared at a die and genuinely pondered it. Is one face of a 30-sided ...

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 ...

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.