"What makes dice fair?" is a more loaded question than you might think. At its simplest, a fair die means that each of the faces has the same probability of landing facing up. A standard six-sided die ...

In a column for the Petaluma Argus-Courier in February 1957, writer Bill Soberanes remarked on the newest trend among young drivers. “This columnist recently noted that the latest fad among the young ...

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...

Today, rearview mirrors are a ubiquitous part of every automobile. We're taught to check and adjust them to minimize blind spots in your car as an integral part of learning how to drive, but they've ...

We’ve all been there: you’re at a pick-up roleplaying group at your local game shop, and that noisy munchkin to your right—who is playing some kind of half-dragon triple-multiclassed character from an ...

Back in 1994, a guy named Richard Garfield — who you may remember from another one of his inventions, Magic: the Gathering — essentially invented the subgenre of programmed movement games with ...