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frozen randomness you can hold, sweat over, and blame for everything
means Small cubes marked with numbers or pips that you roll to generate random outcomes in games of chance; also, to cut food into small cubes.
from Comes through Middle English 'dice,' the plural of 'die,' from Old French 'de,' itself from Latin 'datum' — literally 'a thing given,' from 'dare,' to give. The sense seems to have shifted from 'a piece given or played' in gaming to the cube itself. Over time the plural 'dice' got so common that the singular 'die' nearly fell out of everyday speech. The food-cutting sense arrived later, naming the cube-shaped pieces you produce — a cube being a cube, whether you roll it or sauté it.
- ancient odds
- Dice predate writing by thousands of years
- opposite sides
- All faces sum to seven
- casino grade
- Precision dice machined to half a thousandth inch
- old material
- Earliest dice carved from sheep ankle bones
- loaded cheat
- Weighted dice favor numbers since ancient Rome
senet dice — ancient egyptian game artifacts from tombs, circa 3100 bce
bones of astragalus — earliest known dice used in mesopotamia and greece, animal ankle bones
roman knucklebones — talus dice with marked sides found in roman archaeological sites across europe