Roll the Dice

What it means

Take a chance on something when the outcome is genuinely out of your hands.

Where it comes from

Dice are among the oldest gaming objects known, turning up in graves thousands of years old. The point of them has never changed, which is that nobody at the table controls the result.

The puzzle it came from

Roll the Dice was the answer to the Phrasicle of August 1, 2025. The clue read ____ the ____, and the words came out of a grid where every neighbouring pair makes a two-word phrase.

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