These 60-sided dice never have to be rolled twice

A standard six-sided die has one simple shortcoming: You’ve got a 1 in 6 chance of getting the same number as your opponent when you’re rolling to go first in a game. Eric Harshbarger has a solution for that. More than a decade ago, Harshbarger, a senior lecturer at Auburn University’s College of Sciences and Mathematics, and a group of mathematicians and computer scientists embarked on a journey to create a set of five dice that would be unimpeachably fair. Their paramet...