Dice have been used throughout Asia since before recorded history ; the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a 5000-year-old backgammon set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran.

Dice are hard to differentiate from knucklebones because ancient writers confused the two, but both were used in prehistoric times.

Among the first acts to be signed were Slayer ( which followed Rubin from Def Jam ), Danzig, The Four Horsemen, Masters of Reality, and Wolfsbane, as well as indie rockers The Jesus and Mary Chain and controversial stand-up comedian Andrew Dice Clay.

Dice were used to select musical sequences from a numbered pool of previously composed phrases.

With time, new short plays were written for this short format and jolly style, notably influenced by the comic genre ( with suggestive titles such as La hoja de parra (" The Fig Leaf ") or Dice el sexto mandamiento (" According to the Sixth Commandment ").

Dice, which were a rational way to represent chaos, were replaced by the Prussians by artillery range tables, and then by evaluation of each weapon's lethality, etc.

The races and monsters in Dragon Dice were created by Lester Smith and include some creatures unique to a fantasy setting and others familiar to the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

During this period, it saw the launch of Legend of the Burning Sands, Doomtown, Dune, the Star Trek Collectible Dice Game, and it completed several more projects that were in transition during its acquisition, including re-launching the Rage Collectible Card Game under license from White Wolf, Inc. and redesigned and art-directed by Luke Peterschmidt, as well as overseeing the Commander's Edition of the BattleTech Collectible Card Game licensed from FASA Corporation and developed and art directed by Wizards of the Coast.

Board games such as a Collector ’ s Edition Chess Set, a Monopoly Game, and a Pirates Dice Game ( Liar's dice ) were also released.

The C-17s were under the command of Colonel Robert “ Dice ” R. Allardice, commander of the 62nd Airlift Wing.

The band's performances were to become marked by a chaotic circus-style show which grew and developed over the years, from the simple wearing of face paint, clown costumes and delivery of a strong anarchist message to circus stunts such as fire breathing, the Fish-bowl of Doom, Balloon Drop of Nakedness, Crowd Cavalcade, the giant community doobie ( Clown Carrot of Justice ), sword swallowing and the Rather Large Dice of Mayhem to name but a few.

Dragon Dice is a collectible dice game originally made by TSR, Inc., and is published today by SFR, Inc.

The concert included the premiere of three new works: " Ill-Tempered Clavier " ( 2009 ), " Dice " ( 2010 )" ( both performed by Michael Kieran Harvey ; " H Factor " ( performed by the Silo String Quartet ), a work that Werder said would be his final composition ; Percussionist Eugene Ughetti performed " Quinney on the Roof " and " Recipe for Disaster "; Warren Burt presented a digital restoration of Werder's 4-speaker piece for analogue synthesizer " The Tempest ", originally recorded and released in 1974.

Cockcroft started experimenting with dice a long time before writing The Dice Man, but this made progress on the novel rather slow.

He also made an appearance on Chappelle's Show in the skit " World Series of Dice " as the character " Grits n ' Gravy ".

Dunn made headlines in 1990 when she, along with original musical guest Sinéad O ' Connor, boycotted an episode which was hosted by comedian Andrew Dice Clay because they found his misogynistic humor offensive.

Flessas also was an uncredited extra in films such as HouseSitter, starring Emmy Award winner Steve Martin and Academy Award winner Goldie Hawn,: Wind, starring Academy Award winner Cliff Robertson, Matthew Modine, and Jennifer Grey, and the NBC made for television movie MacShayne: Final Roll of the Dice starring Grammy Award winner Kenny Rogers.

Dice, for example, he inferred from black dots on a white surface.

Dice are thrown, singly or in groups, from the hand or from a container designed for this ( such as a dice cup ), onto a flat surface ; the face of the die that is uppermost when it comes to rest provides the value of the throw.

In 1986 he edited the short-lived comic Dice Man, which featured characters from 2000 AD.

Dice Modifiers ( DMs ) either provide a bonus or penalty to a roll ( the + and – sign precede the number in such cases (+ 2 means add 2 to the roll ,-4 means subtract 4 from the roll ).

Companies have often attempted to profit from the ideas of The Dice Man, and a few such ventures are noted below.

There he recorded a number of rock and roll songs such a " Whiskey, Women and Loaded Dice ", " Head Happy With Wine ", " Jungle Juice ", " Six to Eight ", " Double Crossin ' Liquor ", " Dealin ' from the Bottom ", and " Get Your Mind Out of the Gutter ".

Jimi Hendrix is also an early innovator of the genre, with such tracks as " Third Stone from the Sun ", " 1983 ... ( A Merman I Should Turn to Be )" and " The Stars That Play with Laughing Sam's Dice ".

1989: Controversial comic Andrew Dice Clay's appearance at the 1989 Video Music Awards to promote his new movie, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, earned him a " lifetime ban " from the network when he started performing some of his already-notorious nursery rhymes that contained vulgar language and references.

* The Bad Dice Podcast-The UK's 1st Warhammer Podcast, a podcast from the UK dedicated to Warhammer Fantasy

A highly experimental indie rock scene that emerged during the 2000s has seen such bands as Liars, Black Dice, Le Tigre, Parts & Labor and These Are Powers take influences from a variety of sources, including dance-punk, synth punk, electroclash, noise rock, psychedelic rock and no wave.

# Oasis: Yuji is separated from Marlene and Dice amidst the confusion of a sandstorm.

:: An Egyptian Mau who makes an appearance in Dice in Volume 2, he is a character from Akino's previous series " Reikan Shouhou Kabushikigaisha ".

* Dice Man ( comic ), a series of five game comics from the creators of 2000AD ( and also a character in that series ).

It featured 9 drummers in total, two from Boredoms ( Yoshimi and Yojiro ) and seven others from prominent experimental music acts, namely Zach Hill ( Hella ), Hisham Bharoocha ( Soft Circle, ex: Black Dice, Lightning Bolt ), Butchy Fuego ( Pit er Pat ), Kid Millions ( Oneida ), Jeremy Hyman ( Ponytail ), Dave Nuss ( No-Neck Blues Band ) and Aaron Moore ( Volcano The Bear )

His contributions to Pearl Jam's songs have not been limited to music with Ament having written the lyrics for the Yield songs " Pilate " and " Low Light ", the Binaural songs " Gods ' Dice " and " Nothing as It Seems ", " Help Help " ( from Riot Act ), " Other Side " ( from the " Save You " single ), and " Sweet Lew " ( from Lost Dogs ).

When Will challenges Davy Jones to Liar's Dice, betting his soul against the key to the Dead Man's Chest, Bootstrap joins in, and purposely loses to save his son from eternal enslavement.

* Dice Anderson, William Branch Giles ; A Study in the Politics of Virginia and the Nation from 1790 to 1830, George Banta, 1914 and William Branch Giles, a Life, George Banta, 1915.

Dice have always been colloquially referred to as rocks and the makers of Rolling Rock pale lager, sensing a good tie-in, launched a series of adverts based around the diceman theme, and even a Diceliving website ( now defunct ), and have since been associated with Luke's books.

While VRT normally hosts a national final, Eurosong, when selecting their entries for Eurovision, it has been normal for RTBF to hold an internal selection process ( although it has been known for RTBF to hold a national final at times, for example in 1998, 2005 and 2011, while VRT internally chose Tom Dice for the 2010 edition ).

* Dice 10000 a dice game also known as Zilch

Versions of the game are known as Deception Dice, Diception, Dudo, Perudo or Cachito.

Providence, the state's capital, has a very strong local independent music scene, known especially for its contributions to the genre of noise rock, most notably the groups Lightning Bolt, Black Dice ( who later re-located to New York City ) and Arab on Radar.

A drummer himself, Miller was known for the distinctive drum sound that characterized his productions, especially his work with the Rolling Stones, on whose recordings he occasionally played percussion parts such as the famous opening cowbell on " Honky Tonk Women " and the full drum kit on " You Can't Always Get What You Want ," " Happy ," " Tumbling Dice " and " Shine a Light.

Some of the original personalities on the station known simply as FM92 K-O-M-P included Big Marty and Leslie Blied, Todd Fowler, Dice Martin and Lark Williams.