Roll a D6
A roguelike where dice are your only weapon? I'd play that (‾◡◝)
| Grid | Code Size | Leaderboard | Cycles | Leaderboard | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5x5x5 | 86 | #43 | 21.984 | #986 | 2026-02-24 |
Solution
a=abs(x)
b=abs(y)
return(z==2 and(x|y)==0 or z==-2 and a==1 and b<2 or b==2 and x*z==-1 or y==-2 and a==abs(z)and a<2 or x==-2 and y==z and b<2 or x==2 and b*abs(z)==1)and 3 or 1How it works
It’s a solid WHITE cube where BLACK pips are placed on each face. The whole thing is one big return with six or-chained conditions, one per face, feeding into and 3 or 1 at the end.
Each face has its own pip pattern: the 1-face (z=2) uses (x|y)==0 to check both coords are zero (our bitwise OR trick). The 6-face (z=-2) is a 2x3 grid of pips. The 2-face (y=2) uses x*z==-1, a product trick that catches exactly the anti-diagonal pair. The 5-face has center + corners, the 3-face has a main diagonal, and the 4-face checks for all four corners with b*abs(z)==1.
Opposite faces always sum to 7, just like a real die!