This is the first book in German to examine the topic of dice. The former art and maths teacher Ulrich Vogt discovers amazing and unexpected themes. A historical review from Tutankhamun via the Greeks and Romans to our own time alternates with short but fascinating stories about dice, all illustrated by over 1,000 excellent photos. The stories and pictures take us from dicing for life or death in the Thirty Years War to the depiction of dice in tattoos and piercings. Dice as jewellery, in fashion, in the home, in pubs, to eat or as toys. The world is full of dice! In terms of dice as playthings the spectrum ranges from two-sided sticks to cubic dice, from knucklebones to plastic battery-operated dice with LEDs. The book is linked to the website www.das-würfelbuch.de.