Board game dice roller
Two dice, ready to throw, with one-tap presets for the games that turn up most often on a table. Pick a game, press roll, and carry on playing.
Roll the dice
Press Roll to throw the dice.
Press Space to roll again. Type notation like 2d6+3 or 4d6dl1 straight into the box.
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What the presets do
Each button loads the dice that game asks for and throws them. Monopoly, Catan, and Backgammon all want two six-sided dice, so those three land in the same place. Farkle switches to six dice. Risk sets three for a full attacking roll. Nothing is saved between visits, so the roller always opens on two dice.
Yahtzee gets its own page rather than a button here, because it needs things this roller does not have: five dice you can hold between throws, a three-roll limit per turn, and a scorecard readout. That lives on the Yahtzee dice roller.
Doubles, robbers, and the rest
The roller shows you two numbers and their total. What the game does with those numbers is still your job. Monopoly sends you again on doubles and to jail on the third pair in a row. Backgammon lets you play a double four times over. Catan hands the robber to whoever rolled the 7, which will happen more than any other total, since 7 can be made six different ways out of the thirty-six combinations two dice produce.
If you want the full spread of two-dice totals before you next argue about whether the board is cursed, the two-dice probability chart has every number laid out.
Playing without the box dice
A browser roller solves a specific irritation. Dice go missing, they roll off the table, they land cocked against a stack of property cards, and somebody always insists the red one comes up 6 too often. None of that applies here. It works on a phone screen small enough to pass around, and it needs no account, no install, and no network connection once the page has loaded.
Rolls are generated on your own device. Nothing about them is transmitted or stored anywhere but your browser.
FAQ
Is this dice roller random?
Yes. Each die is drawn from your browser's built-in random number generator, so every face has the same chance and no result depends on the last one. That makes it at least as fair as a physical die, which picks up nicks and wears unevenly. Rolls happen on your device and are never sent to a server.
Which board games use two dice?
Most of the classics. Monopoly, Catan, Backgammon, Risk defence rolls, Snakes and Ladders variants, and Craps all run on two six-sided dice. Two dice give totals from 2 to 12, with 7 the most common result at about 16.67 percent.
Can I use this instead of the dice in the box?
That is what it is for. Pass a phone around the table, or keep a laptop in the middle of the board. It handles the case where a die has rolled under the sofa, where the set came up short, or where somebody suspects a die of being loaded.
How do I roll a different number of dice?
Type the notation straight into the box. 3d6 rolls three six-sided dice, 2d6+2 adds two to the total, and 1d20 rolls a twenty-sided die. The presets above just fill the same box for you.