Thanks to the dice and cards, it's forever the summer of 1961 It's a sound the writer grew up with - the click, click, click of dice rattling onto an APBA baseball board for his father to translate ...

A newly-developed cipher could finally shine light on how the strange text of the Voynich manuscript was devised.

On each turn of a game, we roll three standard dice with faces numbered 1 to 6 and add up the numbers shown. What is the average (mean) value of that total over a long game? Now suppose instead of ...