It’s one of those hidden-in-plain-sight rules of life: the opposite faces of standard dice always sum to seven. Six is opposite one; five is opposite two; three is opposite four. It’s just how ...

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.

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.

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 ...