Novel by George Singleton

Author:George Singleton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I heard nothing emanating from Gruel Jungle. Then I bandy-legged my way to the office, opened the door, plugged a stray brick doorstop against it, walked to the shed, found my hammer and chisel, got back the brick, fashioned five nice one-by-one-by-one-inch cubes out of it, got out my pen, turned the cubes into dice, took the glass out of the room, shook my homemade dice, and wondered how many times it would take to roll out five boxcars. Or five snake eyes.

I never took a mathematics course in college. I took logic, but I never underwent one of those probability and statistics classes. It didn’t take much brains, though, to figure out that one die had a one-in-six chance to roll a six, and that the other four dice had that same chance. When it all got multiplied out—as I spent a few hours figuring—a person should roll five of the same numbers every 7,776 rolls.

Evidently it could’ve taken me more times than that. I spent at least four successive days in that room. I got up once and wrote in my notebook, “Rolling dice isn’t anything that could be labeled mathematically pure.”

I made sure not to bastardize standard written English and, more importantly, to tell the truth.

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