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Try it here: a game's dice

Korokoro knows the dice of 44 games, and how each game reads them. Open Games in the tray, type a few letters, and choose one; or link straight to it with ?game=yahtzee; or call it from code, by any name the game goes by:

const thrown = rollPreset("yahtzee", { source: seededSource("table") });
thrown.roll.faces;       // [1, 2, 1, 5, 4]
thrown.reading.text;     // "Chance, for 13"
thrown.reading.outcome;  // "chance": the same in every language

getPreset("Yacht") === getPreset("yahtzee");   // true: other names find it too
presetOdds(getPreset("craps")!);
// a natural (7 or 11) 8 of 36, craps (2, 3 or 12) 4 of 36, a point 24 of 36

Yahtzee chosen on a phone: five d6 on the felt, on roll 1 of 3, read as Chance for 20

Shelf	Games
Board games	Monopoly, Catan, Backgammon and its doubling cube, Snakes and Ladders, Ludo, Parcheesi, Pachisi (six cowries), Risk
Dice games	Yahtzee, Farkle, Bunco, Pig, Liar's dice, Poker dice, Ship captain and crew, Shut the box, Mexico, Left Center Right
Traditional games	Craps, Sic bo, Chuck-a-luck, Hazard, Chō-han (丁半), Chinchirorin (チンチロリン)
Roleplaying games	a d20 check, advantage and disadvantage, ability scores, Fate, Blades in the Dark, Powered by the Apocalypse, d10 and d6 pools, percentile, 3d6 roll-under, d66
Handy dice	a coin, yes-no-maybe, pick a number, rock-paper-scissors, a compass, a colour die; and who goes first at a card table

Every one is in the gallery, with its dice, how it is read, the exact odds of each outcome and a link to the rules.

A game is read, not run. Korokoro throws the dice and says what the game makes of them: "a small straight", "8 is the point", "the defender loses 2". Whose turn it is, the board and the score sheet stay on your table.
Turns of several rolls hold dice. Yahtzee and Ship, captain and crew give three rolls: tap dice to hold them between rolls, and the tray counts.
A roll is read in the light of the ones before it where the game does: the point in craps, the turn's total in Pig, a third doubles in Monopoly.
Exact odds of each outcome, counted over every way the dice can fall: Risk's three against two is 2,890, 2,611 and 2,275 of 7,776.
The dice are fair. A game never loads a die; only you can, and a loaded die stays marked whatever game is showing.
Nothing about stakes. The traditional games are here for their dice and their odds.

Is your game missing? Tell us, or add it: a game is one line of data and a test, and CONTRIBUTING walks through one.

Game names are trademarks of their owners, used here only to say which game's dice these are. Korokoro is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them.

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