Kismet (dice game) six white diamonds, each containing a letter of the word "KISMET", and the words "IT IS FATE" along the bottom of the logo. Contents of the game consist of five white dice with colored pips (1 and 6 black, 2 and 5 red, 3 and 4 green) a dice-throwing cup, and a pad of scorecards. As in similar dice games, players take turns rolling five dice. Each player can take up to three rolls per turn. On the second and third rolls, the player may hold back dice from the previous rolls in order to create better scoring combinations. At
Long dice Design advantages of long dice include being relatively easy to create fair dice with an odd number of faces, and (for four-faced dice) being easier to roll than tetrahedral d4 dice (as found in many role-playing games). Both cubic dice and four-faced long dice are found as early as the mid third millennium BCE at Indus Valley Civilisation sites; these are marked variously with dot-and-ring figures, linear devices, and Indus Valley signs. Dot-and-ring figures are used to this day on long dice in India, and predominate in the central European long dice shown above. In India, long dice ("pasa") are