Usually, I play games that only require a couple of dice—typically a pair of six-sided dice or a few 12-sided dice, and recently I’ve stuck to a set of brass and stone D6s that are really nice ...

Six-sided dice are cubes, with the result showing on the top face. Often used so much, that results calling for their usage may be abbreviated as "D" in some older publications.

With six-sided dice a common archeological find across Europe, the researchers studied 28 well-dated Roman-period dice and found that 24 of them were asymmetrical.

All dice are polyhedra (Greek for many-sided), but the D120 is a special variety called disdyakis triacontahedron. It features 120 scalene triangular faces and 62 vertices.

Most people are familiar with conventional cubical six-sided dice, but there are also polyhedral versions like the 20-sided dice used in ancient Rome and to play Dungeons and Dragons.Researchers ...

A six-sided cube die, for example, has 24 different symmetries. A tetrahedral die, or a four-sided die in the shape of a pyramid, has only 12 different symmetries. This is where the physics of ...

Six-sided dice are cubes, with the result showing on the top face. Often used so much, that results calling for their usage may be abbreviated as "D" in some older publications.