🎲 Dice Roll

How to play

Dice Roll is a dice roller rather than a contest. Choose how many dice to throw and press roll; the dice tumble for half a second before settling. The total appears below them, the running statistics update and the result joins a strip of recent throws. Use it to settle a decision, to replace lost dice for a board game, or to watch how the spread of totals changes as you add dice.

• 1 Die, 2 Dice, 3 Dice and 4 Dice buttons — set how many dice are thrown. The chosen button stays highlighted and the tray is rebuilt at once.
• Roll button — throws every die in the tray, each rolled independently.
• Spacebar — the same as Roll, with page scrolling suppressed.

Scoring

Nothing is scored or won. Each die produces a whole number from 1 to 6 with equal probability and the figure shown is the sum of the tray. Three boxes track the session: Rolls counts every throw, Highest is the largest total seen and Lowest the smallest. The strip below keeps the last twelve totals, newest on the left. None of these reset when you change the number of dice, so they run across the whole session unless you reload.

Tips

• Reload before a run you want clean statistics for, since switching from one die to four leaves the old highest and lowest in place.
• With one die every face is equally likely, but with two or more the totals bunch in the middle — the history strip shows this within a few dozen rolls.
• Holding the spacebar down uses key repeat to roll continuously, which builds a sample quickly.
• The dice animate for half a second, so wait for the glow before reading the total.

Frequently asked questions