Page "Dice" Paragraph 11

Common dice are small cubes most commonly 1. 6 cm across, whose faces are numbered from one to six, usually by patterns of round dots called pips.

( While the use of Hindu-Arabic numerals is occasionally seen, such as in the game Pop-O-Matic Trouble, the ambigrammatic properties of the digits ( for instance, 6 can look like a 9 upside down ) make such dice uncommon.

) Traditionally, opposite sides of a die add up to seven, implying that the 1, 2 and 3 faces share a vertex ; these faces may be placed clockwise or counterclockwise about this vertex.

If the 1, 2 and 3 faces run counterclockwise, the die is called right-handed and vice versa.

Western dice are normally right-handed and Chinese dice are normally left-handed.