Archives: Wiki Articles
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How to Cite Dice Sources: Product Pages, Rules, and Tests
A source-recording guide for DICEWIKI contributors, covering product specifications, official rules, measurements, community observations, access dates, and claim strength.
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Dice Finishes and Surfaces: Matte, Gloss, Metallic, and Coated
Learn how to describe a die finish separately from its material, color, and edge profile, and how to avoid unsupported claims about durability or rolling behavior.
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Dice Markings: Pips, Numerals, Symbols, and Engraving
Compare pips, numerals, symbols, paint, ink, and engraving, and learn which marking details help readers identify and use a die correctly.
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Dice Numbering and Opposite Faces: Layout, Balance, and Evidence
Understand how numbering layouts and opposite faces belong in a dice record, and why a visual arrangement alone cannot prove a die is balanced.
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Dice Size and Dimensions: How to Record Scale Clearly
A practical guide to recording dice dimensions, measurement conditions, shape, and scale without confusing a product size with a universal standard.
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Dice Set Composition: What Belongs in a Set?
Learn how to document the pieces in a dice set, distinguish a retail bundle from a game requirement, and record missing, optional, or specialty components.
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Random Tables and Dice: Turning Rolls into Results
Understand how a dice roll selects a result from a random table, how ranges and boundaries work, and how to document the table and rules source.
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Fair Dice and Physical Testing: Models, Samples, and Limits
Learn what a fair-die model means, what a roll sample can and cannot show, and which details belong in a responsible physical-dice test report.
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Dice Probability Distributions: Totals, Averages, and Outcomes
See how one die, multiple dice, and different selection rules create different probability distributions, and how to separate a mathematical model from a physical test.
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Dice Pools: Counting, Keeping, and Comparing Rolls
A practical guide to dice pools, including totals, successes, opposed results, keep-highest rules, rerolls, and the information needed for a reproducible explanation.