From Monopoly to Backgammon to Yahtzee, our first experiences with board games almost always feature sets of six-sided dice. They’re a great way to create some randomness and chaos in a game, but ...

Let's say I roll two dice, a d8 and a d12… How do I calculate the probability that the d12 will a) win, b) be equal, c) lose? There is probably a name for this equation, but my google-fu is lacking.

Here’s a deceptively simple exercise: Come up with a random phone number. Seven digits in a sequence, chosen so that every digit is equally likely, and so that your choice of one digit doesn’t affect ...

Ben Newell receives funding from the Australian Research Council. The answer in both cases – the single roll and the 6 rolls - is always to predict red, the dominant colour. But I am prepared to bet ...

When Alice and Bob need to transmit dice rolls across a noisy wire, they discover that optimal communication isn't about treating all messages equally, but about assigning shorter signals to more ...

Candidates are often asked to answer obscure or tricky math and probability questions during job interviews at tech companies like Google and Amazon. This dice problem, as demonstrated on YouTube by ...