What are Casino dice?
Casino dice are precision made, translucent dice for use in gambling establishments. The added uniformity over toy dice is probably not significant for creating passphrases, but might be important if you want to use dice to directly generate random numbers for statistical purposes. Guy Macon writes: “This is a bit of overkill for what your web page is about, but I did manage to get some interesting (and useless!) information on dice. [One gambling site on the ‘net once claimed that] to beat the house with crooked dice, you need at least a 0.3167% edge, so I must assume that crooked dice must have at least that much bias. Probably a lot more if the cheater wants to make money before the dice at the table are changed.” http://www.diceman.net is the web page of a serious Casino dice collector. Lots of interesting info here, including a claim that “Dice used in board games are crudely manufactured and always favor the higher numbers (4, 5, and 6) because more material is drilled out of tho
