A common die has 6 sides. With a pair, you can roll boxcars, snake eyes or crap out. With 3 dice: Ce-Lo. With 5 dice: Yahtzee!

In Trouble and Sorry! the dice are imprisoned in a plastic dome — we cannot be trusted.

In Monopoly, roll three doubles in a row? Go directly to Jail.

1989: I invisibly sidestep a 24-hour sidewalk craps game daily on my way to the wage slave job. Dice Kings rolling bones. Bottles in paper bags. Loud voices. Hard 8 pay 9:1.

Today? That location boasts the highest grossing Whole Foods in the US.

Nerds will tell you, use a twenty-sided die to roll for initiative.