I was trying to teach my kids about the pointlessness of playing the lottery when it was north of a billion dollars and so I pulled out 8d10 – so as to generate a random number between 0 and 99,999,999. And each of them could pick one number. I told my kids they could roll the dice as many times as they wanted and if they either of them got it right, I would give them $1,000 each to spend on anything they wanted. The only condition was the game was over once they got bored and wanted to leave.
As you can imagine, the kids thought this was a great idea and rolled, enthusiastically, over and over again. They older kid gave up after about 5 minutes. The younger one stuck it out for about 3 or 4 minutes beyond that, totally dejected at the possibility of winning my game. I imagine if I charged them a nickel a throw it would have lasted about 90 seconds.
Best use ever of my dice collection.
