> On a standard pair of dice, which number is on the opposite side of number 6?And the answer: 1. The opposite sides of standard dice always add up to seven.So on the opposite side of six you'll find the number one.You might not realize it during your game of Yahtzee, but dice are some of theoldest game pieces known to man. While a number of Ancient Greek philosophers –including the famed Sophocles – claimed that the pieces were invented by otherGreeks, archeological evidence points to a much earlier inception. In fact, longbefore Ancient Greeks, societies used bones as early forms of dice to play gameslike senet (or sometimes try to predict the future, but that's a story for adifferent day). Photo credit: qatar.us.[https://quatr.us/west-asia/dice-invented-history-dice.htm]Throughout the courseof time, dice have been made of everything from bronze to porcelain to marble.Cuboidal dice have been discovered in Chinese excavations dating back to 600 BCEand in Egyptian tombs reaching as far as 2000 BCE. Needless to say, dice havebeen created and tossed long before recorded history – in fact, the pieces aresaid to be dotted rather than numbered because they came into use long beforewritten numerals. The term "dice" derives from Old French and Latin. It is a combination of theFrench dé and the Latin datum, which in one translation means "something givenor played." Over the years, those words evolved into dice. Photo credit: Britannica.com.While a six-sided die is the most common, there aremany other varieties available to us today depending on the game. Unusual shapesused to create dice include an octahedron, pentagonal trapezohedron,dodecahedron, and an icosahedron (now say that back three times fast). Oddlyshaped dice are often used in popular games such as Dungeons and Dragons.Fun fact!Even Julius Caesar played dice! It was he who coined the famous phrase, "Aleaiacta est," translating to: "When the dice are thrown, there is no turningback." So true, Julius.