Dice hand; they are thus a crude form of hardware random number generator. Perhaps to mitigate concerns that the pips on the faces of certain styles of dice cause a small bias, casinos use precision dice with flush markings. Common dice are small cubes most commonly across, whose faces are numbered from one to six, usually by patterns of round dots called pips. (While the use of Arabic numerals is occasionally seen, such dice are less common.) Opposite sides of a modern die traditionally add up to seven, implying that the 1, 2 and 3 faces share a vertex. The faces
The Search for the Dice Man The Search for the Dice Man The Search for the Dice Man was written by George Cockcroft under the pen name Luke Rhinehart. It is the official sequel to "The Dice Man", and was published in 1993. Other books by George Cockcroft with the same themes: "The Dice Man", "Adventures of Wim", "The Book of the Die". The book is set 20 years after the end of "The Dice Man", and Luke's dicechild, Larry Rhinehart, has grown up to become a hotshot investor on the stock market. He has totally rejected his father's reverence for chance: he sees it as