To do this, you could run a "Monte Carlo simulation" in which you plug historical weather data into a computer and then roll a pair of virtual dice 10, 000 times.

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Second, the Journal of Clinical Nutrition should not have published the study, given that the evidence for the alleged connection between artificial sweeteners and cancer was no more compelling than a dice roll.

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More importantly, he worried about management culture as the path to product culture, where innovation means never-ending creativity, not tossing the dice and getting lucky on a good roll.

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He called Graham a "remarkable woman" who was "willing to roll the dice" and play ball on the "largely male turf" of newsroom executives.

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In a 2006 German study judges were asked to roll (rigged) dice between reading the documents in a (hypothetical) case and making their judgment.

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Its fractured narrative, its seemingly disparate-yet-connected storylines spanning thousands of years, and the utilization of its cast as multiple characters in multiple timelines, was a serious roll of the dice.

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"It's almost a life-enhancing, little tiny beat in that moment when the dice roll and the horse crosses the finishing place, that moment of not knowing, " he said.

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Robin Williams plays Alan, who was sucked into the Jumanji board as a boy and emerges twenty-six years later when a couple of kids (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) open up the game and roll the dice.

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Suppose you have a roll of the dice that will get you a hundred-dollar bill if you land a seven and nothing otherwise.

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