Dice

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Dice are small throwable objects with marked sides used in different games.

Culture

Dicing is a regular pastime among common people and nobles alike. It is often accompanied with drinking and gambling.[1][2][3][4]

Expressions such as "rolling the dice",[5] "tossing the dice"[6] and "throwing the dice"[7] designate someone making a risky attempt to do or achieve something.

Recent Events

A Game of Thrones

During his stay at the Wall, Tyrion Lannister spends his evening drinking and dicing with the high officers of the Night's Watch.[1]

Tyrion wins a shadowskin cloak playing dice against the singer Marillion.[8][5]

Arya Stark sees two guardsmen dicing while a third walked rounds around the Wind Witch preventing her to board the ship to escape King's Landing.[9]

A Clash of Kings

Wex Pyke is a good dice player and wins good money to the astonishment of Theon Greyjoy.[10]

Members of Rattleshirt's band play dice against each other to win the gear of the dead Qhorin Halfhand.[11]

A Feast for Crows

Lord Randyll Tarly, who is dispensing justice in Maidenpool in place of Lord William Mooton, hears a sailor and one of Lord Mooton's bowman after a dice game turned sour. He judges the bowman guilty of cheating using a loaded dice. He condemns him to lose a little finger and to be stabbed in the palm of his hand with a nail.[12]

A Dance with Dragons

Sellswords of the Windblown love to play dice against Archibald Yronwood as he is a poor player betting fearlessly but without great results.[13]

According to Big Walder, his late cousin Little Walder owed silver coins to a White Harbor knight from a game of dice and implies Manderly men have killed him for it.[14]

The Winds of Winter

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Young John Mudd is a good dice player.[15]

Euron Greyjoy lets his men trow dice over which ships will bind holy men to their prows before the battle against the Redwyne fleet.[16]

Known dice players

References