Table of Contents
Acknowledgements 6
A Personal Note 8
Part 1 The Many Uses of Dice Through the Ages 9
Chapter 1 Roll the Dice - The Early Games 11
Chapter 2 From Knucklebones to Cyber-Dice 17
Chapter 3 High Rollers and Bad Losers - Some Tales of the Dice 28
Chapter 4 Dice Lore 39
Chapter 5 Crooked Dice 44
Chapter 6 Odds and Probability 50
Chapter 7 Dice Magic 61
Chapter 8 Dice Stacking 75
Chapter 9 Dice Divination 83
Chapter 10 Dice Control 88
Part 2 Dice Games 101
Chapter 11 Knucklebones (Jacks) 103
Chapter 12 Medieval Games 108
Chapter 13 Craps 116
Chapter 14 A Few More Games Of Risk 124
Chapter 15 Board Games 130
Chapter 16 Dice Chess 141
Chapter 17 Family Dice Games 149
Chapter 18 Backgammon 156
Chapter 19 Role-Playing Games and War-Gaming 162
After-Dice 166
Dice Glossary 167
Select Bibliography 170
