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Difficulty: Tricky Alex is playing a dice game with 2 standard 6-sided dice, one red and one blue. Each die has faces numbered from 1 to 6. Alex rolls both dice and adds up the numbers on the top faces. After a while, Alex notices that the sums are always between 2 and 12 and…

It sounds like a perfect way to make money – scientists from The Australian National University (ANU) are now selling random numbers over the internet! But before you start your own business writing whatever number pops into your head, there’s something special about these numbers.

Difficulty: Fun How well do you know your dice? A standard dice is a cube with six sides. Each side is numbered with a different number from 1–6. Most six-sided dice also have a special trick in the way they are numbered. If you add the number on the top and the number on the…

Difficulty: Taxing I have a collection of strange dice.

Thousands of years ago, ancient Chinese people played a game with strange dice – and now you can make your own!

Here’s a fun game that will reward you when you don’t tell the truth. Have a go at liar’s dice!

We’ve got a game for you to try. Grab a couple of dice, pens, paper and a friend: let’s go!