Dice

Dice

A die (plural dice, from French dé, from Latin datum "something which is given or played") is a small throwable object with multiple resting positions, used for generating random numbers. This makes dice suitable as gambling devices for games like craps, or for use in non-gambling tabletop games.

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Famous quotes containing the word dice:

    “God’s dice always have a lucky roll.”
    —Sophocles (497–406/5 B.C.)

    “The dice of God are always loaded. The world looks like a multiplication-table, or a mathematical equation, which, turn it how you will, balances itself.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Often beneath the wave, wide from this ledge
    The dice of drowned men’s bones he saw bequeath
    An embassy.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)