Dice
Dice are small throwable objects with marked sides used in different games.
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Culture
Dicing is a regular pastime among common people and nobles alike. It is often accompanied with drinking and gambling.[1][2][3][4]
Expressions such as "rolling the dice",[5] "tossing the dice"[6] and "throwing the dice"[7] designate someone making a risky attempt to do or achieve something.
Recent Events
A Game of Thrones
During his stay at the Wall, Tyrion Lannister spends his evening drinking and dicing with the high officers of the Night's Watch.[1]
Tyrion wins a shadowskin cloak playing dice against the singer Marillion.[8][5]
Arya Stark sees two guardsmen dicing while a third walked rounds around the Wind Witch preventing her to board the ship to escape King's Landing.[9]
A Clash of Kings
Wex Pyke is a good dice player and wins good money to the astonishment of Theon Greyjoy.[10]
Members of Rattleshirt's band play dice against each other to win the gear of the dead Qhorin Halfhand.[11]
A Feast for Crows
Lord Randyll Tarly, who is dispensing justice in Maidenpool in place of Lord William Mooton, hears a sailor and one of Lord Mooton's bowman after a dice game turned sour. He judges the bowman guilty of cheating using a loaded dice. He condemns him to lose a little finger and to be stabbed in the palm of his hand with a nail.[12]
A Dance with Dragons
Sellswords of the Windblown love to play dice against Archibald Yronwood as he is a poor player betting fearlessly but without great results.[13]
According to Big Walder, his late cousin Little Walder owed silver coins to a White Harbor knight from a game of dice and implies Manderly men have killed him for it.[14]
The Winds of Winter
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Young John Mudd is a good dice player.[15]
Euron Greyjoy lets his men trow dice over which ships will bind holy men to their prows before the battle against the Redwyne fleet.[16]
Known dice players
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 19, Jon III.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 26, Jon IV.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 10, Davos I.
- ↑ The Winds of Winter, Arianne I
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 38, Tyrion V.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 42, Tyrion VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 59, Catelyn IX.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 A Game of Thrones, Chapter 34, Catelyn VI.
- ↑ A Game of Thrones, Chapter 65, Arya V.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 24, Theon II.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 68, Jon VIII.
- ↑ A Feast for Crows, Chapter 14, Brienne III.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 13.4 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 25, The Windblown.
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 51, Theon I.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 The Winds of Winter, Arianne II
- ↑ The Winds of Winter, The Forsaken
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 A Clash of Kings, Chapter 39, Catelyn V.
- ↑ A Storm of Swords, Chapter 78, Samwell V.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 31, Catelyn III.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 A Dance with Dragons, Chapter 46, A Ghost in Winterfell.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 66, Theon VI.
- ↑ A Clash of Kings, Chapter 25, Tyrion VI.
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