🎲 Adventurer's dice quiz
Adventurers use lots of different dice. Do you know them all?
Getting the questions ready…
The answers, and why
- How many faces does a d20 have? Twenty. The number after the d is the number of faces.
- What shape is a d4? A pyramid. A d4 is a pyramid with four triangle faces, called a tetrahedron.
- What shape is a d6? A cube. An ordinary die is a cube.
- A d8 is shaped like... Two pyramids joined at the bottom. That's an octahedron: eight triangle faces.
- How many faces does a d12 have? Twelve. A d12 has twelve faces, each a pentagon. It's called a dodecahedron.
- What is the chance of rolling a 20 on a d20? 1 in 20. Twenty faces, one of them 20.
- Two d10s rolled together can make a number from 1 to... 100. One die is the tens and one the ones: these are called percentile dice.
- With two d6, which total comes up most? 7. There are more ways to make 7 than any other total.
- A d20's faces are all... Triangles. A d20 is an icosahedron: twenty triangle faces.
- In many games, rolling a 20 on a d20 is called... A natural 20. "Natural" means the die showed 20 on its own, before anything was added.