They may be used to produce results other than one through six. A variety of similar devices are also described as dice such specialized dice may have polyhedral or irregular shapes and may have faces marked with symbols instead of numbers. When thrown or rolled, the die comes to rest showing on its upper surface a random integer from one to six, each value being equally likely. Dice are suitable as gambling devices for games like craps and are also used in non-gambling tabletop games.Ī traditional die is a rounded cube, with each of its six faces showing a different number of dots ( pips) from 1 to 6. Four traditional dice showing all six different sidesĭice (singular die or dice from Old French dé from Latin datum 'something which is given or played' plural dice or occasionally dices) are small throwable objects with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers.
