Mathematicians invent five-player dice that guarantee a winner — no ties

New type of dice guarantees no tie when deciding who goes first

A 15-year quest to create dice that decide who goes first in a board game without ties has finally succeeded for five players. Mathematician Eric Harshbarger and a team of researchers, including Canadian software engineer Paul Meyer, designed a set of five 60-sided dice that are statistically fair and always produce a unique winner from a single roll. The challenge was translating a mathematical solution into physical dice that could be manufactured. The discovery came after Meyer used a brute-force computer search to find a practical design, reducing the number of sides from a theoretical 1,440 to 60.