How to roll the die
- Roll. Hit the button and the die tumbles in 3D, then settles onto its face with a satisfying little stagger.
- Read the result. The die shows its number, and the value is announced out loud for screen readers, too.
- Roll again if you need a pair. For a two-dice game, roll a second time and add the two values together. Tap as often as you like — every roll is fresh and independent.
There's nothing to install and nothing to sign up for. The die runs entirely in your browser, and no roll is ever saved or sent anywhere — refresh the page and you're starting fresh.
What people roll dice for
A physical die has a way of disappearing exactly when you need it. A virtual one never rolls under the sofa. The reasons people reach for this page, more or less in order:
- Board games with a missing die. Monopoly, Catan, backgammon, Snakes and Ladders — the box always turns up one die short. Roll here for a single die, or roll twice and add the values for a pair; nobody has to crawl under the table.
- Teaching probability. There's no better hands-on lesson than rolling a die a hundred times and tallying how evenly the six faces come up. Because this die is genuinely fair, the counts converge exactly the way the math says they should.
- Tabletop and RPG warm-ups. Rolling for initiative, checking a quick stat, or settling who goes first before the real d20s come out. For the full polyhedral kit, the app has you covered.
- Chores and choices by number. Assign each option a number one through six, roll, and let the die decide who does the dishes or which route you take. It's the classic way to make a fair call feel less like a fight.
- Small decisions, d6 style. Can't pick between six restaurants, six movies or six weekend plans? Number them and roll. When you feel a flash of disappointment at the result, you've just learned which one you actually wanted — which is useful information, too.
Fair dice, no loaded corners
Here's the honest explanation, because "trust us, it's random" shouldn't be good enough when there's a game on the line.
When you roll, the die's value is chosen with crypto.getRandomValues() — the cryptographically secure random number generator built into your browser, the same class of randomness the web uses for encryption keys. We pair it with unbiased scaling (rejection sampling), so there's no rounding bias creeping toward any face. Every side lands exactly 1 in 6 of the time over the long run.
Real dice can't quite promise that. Casinos use razor-edged precision dice for a reason: ordinary dice have rounded corners, pip cavities drilled out of one side, and small manufacturing tolerances, all of which tilt the odds a hair. This virtual die has no corners to round and no material to weight — the tumble you watch is just theater for a number that was already picked fairly.
Probability corner
One fair die is the cleanest lesson in probability there is: six faces, each landing exactly 1 in 6 of the time (about 16.7%), with every roll independent of the last. A die that just came up six three times running is no more or less likely to do it again — there's no memory and no momentum. That independence is why streaks feel spookier than they are: roll a die six times and the chance you don't see a six even once is about 33%, which is exactly why "surely it's due" is a trap, not a strategy. Each roll forgets everything that came before.
Two dice are where it gets interesting. Roll a pair — here, roll twice and add the two values; in the Pick Me app, one tap rolls both and totals them for you — and the 36 equally likely combinations stack the sums into a bell curve. Seven is the champion, made six different ways, while two and twelve each have only one:
| Total | Ways to roll it | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| 2 or 12 | 1 | 1 in 36 (≈2.8%) |
| 3 or 11 | 2 | 2 in 36 (≈5.6%) |
| 4 or 10 | 3 | 3 in 36 (≈8.3%) |
| 5 or 9 | 4 | 4 in 36 (≈11.1%) |
| 6 or 8 | 5 | 5 in 36 (≈13.9%) |
| 7 | 6 | 6 in 36 (≈16.7%) |
A favourite to pull out at game night: the odds of rolling double six are exactly 1 in 36, the same as any other specific pair.
Need d20s and a full dice set?
This page keeps it simple with classic six-sided dice. When your table needs more, Spin The Wheel — Pick Me for iPhone and iPad brings the whole set: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12 and d20, up to 12 dice in a single roll for those big damage moments. You can also build custom dice with words instead of numbers — dares, chores, workout moves, dinner options — and give each die its own colour, so a roll picks an action rather than a value. It's rated 4.6★ by more than 14,800 people, keeps a roll history, works on Apple Watch, and has never shown an ad.
When a number beats a die
Sometimes six sides isn't the shape you need. If you want a random value from a specific range — pick a number from 1 to 100, draw a raffle ticket, choose a random page — the random number generator is the right tool. And when the choice is between named options rather than numbers, spin the wheel or flip a coin instead.