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> re-rolling a pair of dice until you get a result you like seemed ugly.

... then proceed to:

- create an entire new pair of dice for 2 turns of a game they play once in a while

- one die now has 2 values on each face with separate meaning

- for the first 2 turns, you have a special procedure to read the value of the dice that is quite convoluted

I understand the fun of it, but that's also how I see code being written in the corporate world, and that makes me sad.

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The red numbers did seem like stretching it too far, but I actually think the original construction is quite elegant. Taking the number with more dots doesn’t seem like any more mental overhead than mentally adding the values on two normal dice.

Since he already takes the one with a higher number of dots on either die, wouldn’t that make it a d12?

No, because a d12 has a uniform probability distribution across all numbers which is explicitly not what is wanted for Catan

> the dices

"The dice". Single "die", plural "dice".

French here. Thank you.

Just to further complicate things.... native English speakers often use "dice" as the singular i.e. instead of "die". While technically incorrect, it's very common, probably more common than the "correct' form.

The plural is "dice" and unfortunately "dices" is definitely incorrect :-)

English is crazy.

I’ve even heard people use “die” as both the singular and plural! It’s the only singular/plural pair I know of where 3 of the 4 permutations show up in common parlance. I’ll be thrilled if I ever hear someone use dice as sing. and die as pl.

Some constructs in English can indeed feel a bit dicey.

Ah, you pipped me to it.

The plural of inconsistency:

https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/897e437031880139f09900...

Mouse, mice therefore singular of dice is douse!

I think the word itself is from French too (although I don't know what the explanation for the strange plural form is).

From the OED: "As in pence, the plural s retains its original breath sound, probably because these words were not felt as ordinary plurals, but as collective words".

Here is another interesting article about the etymology and singular/plural usage: https://www.grammarphobia.com/blog/2016/10/dice.html

Doesn't the word dies connote exactly two dies? Then with three or more it becomes dice.

No.

The pair-of-dice / paradise pun would be burned into your brain if you spent more time with bikers.

I don't think English has any plural form for >=3.

A pair of dies is dice! But then what does 'pair of dice' mean?

Which brings us to another problem: I can buy a new pair of pants - or even 'some new pants' - but I've never seen 'a pant' for sale !! ;-)

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