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Probability, history and strategy — everything behind the six colours.

• 2026-05-04 · 6 min read

  The History of Dice and Dice Games

  From carved knucklebones to colour dice on your phone — how the humble die travelled 5,000 years.

• 2026-05-18 · 5 min read

  Dice Probabilities, Part 1: The Basics

  Why each colour is 1 in 6, what happens when you roll many dice, and how to read a streak.

• 2026-06-01 · 7 min read

  Dice Probabilities, Part 2: Pools, Matches and Thresholds

  Working out matched sets, at-least-k odds, and how to design a dice pool that behaves the way you want.

• 2026-06-22 · 5 min read

  The Role of Luck and Strategy in Dice Games

  Dice supply the variance; players supply the decisions. Where the line actually falls.

• 2026-07-06 · 8 min read

  How Online Dice Get Rigged (And How To Spot It)

  Overlay extensions, seeded generators, server replays — the four common ways a virtual roll gets faked.

• 2026-07-20 · 6 min read

  Reading Streaks Without Fooling Yourself

  Why five reds in a row is normal, what a real bias looks like in data, and how many rolls you need to tell.

• 2026-08-03 · 7 min read

  Nine Colour Dice Games You Can Play Tonight

  Party games, classroom warm-ups and push-your-luck rules that need nothing but colour dice.

• 2026-08-17 · 7 min read

  Randomness, Entropy and What Your Browser Actually Does

  Where crypto.getRandomValues gets its bits, why Math.random is not good enough, and what rejection sampling fixes.