It’s one of those hidden-in-plain-sight rules of life: the opposite faces of standard dice always sum to seven. Six is ...

If the dice faces add up to 7 or 11, pass-line and come bets placed win and the round is over. If the dice faces add up to 2, 3 or 12, pass-line and come bets lose and a new round can start.

But unlike standard dice, each die may repeat some of the numbers and leave out others. In the case of six-sided dice, there are only 32 different dice that have these two properties.

These weren’t numbered like standard dice. The typical one through six were replaced with other numbers that varied from die to die. As a supposed courtesy, Buffett invited Gates to pick his die ...

#44 Dice and cards. Set by Christopher Dearlove. On each turn of a game, we roll three standard dice with faces numbered 1 to 6 and add up the numbers shown.

So the team decided to focus on dice that have two properties: First, the dice use the same numbers as on a standard die — 1 through n, in the case of an n-sided die. And second, the face numbers add ...