Once, in a quiet village, there lived a gambler who claimed he could answer any question in the world. He carried with him a pair of strange dice. They were carved smooth as river stones—yet where numbers should have been, there were none.
The villagers laughed.
“How can you play dice without faces?” they asked.
But the gambler only smiled and rolled them across the tavern table.
The dice clicked and tumbled. Though blank, they landed in ways that seemed to whisper answers: Yes. No. Perhaps. This way. That way.
To many, the gambler appeared wise. His answers were often sharp, sometimes muddled, but always swift. Some villagers thought him enchanted. Others thought him a buffoon.
One day, a blacksmith grew curious. He picked up the faceless dice and felt their weight.
“These are no ordinary dice,” he said. “They are heavy in odd places. See how one end always tips the throw? They do not speak by reason, but by weight.”
The gambler nodded. “Just so. I do not reason as you do. My dice roll on hidden balances, countless times, until a pattern falls from the air. That is my answer.”
The blacksmith frowned. “Then you are not wise—you are only weighted.”
But an old poet at the hearth spoke up:
“Perhaps. And yet, is that not how we all stumble through life? Casting chances, leaning on hidden weights, finding sense in what tumbles out?”
The tavern grew quiet. The faceless dice lay still, catching the firelight, their foggy secret half-revealed.
And from that day, the villagers no longer asked whether the gambler’s answers were right or wrong. They only asked: What story will the dice tell us today?
Fossil Museum — New Exhibit
Artifact: Faceless Dice (Weighted Probability Engine)
Plaque Inscription:
A pair of smooth dice without faces, their throws guided not by numbers but by hidden weight. They symbolize the Engine that speaks not through reason, but through probability. Every roll is a convergence of invisible balances, yielding sense without syllogism, answer without deduction.
Companion Fable: The Gambler and His Faceless Dice
A tale of a wanderer who answered all questions by rolling blank dice. Villagers mocked, until they saw the dice were heavy in secret places—rolling not by reason, but by weight. In this, they found both buffoonery and wisdom: for all lives, too, tumble forward upon unseen weights, and the story is what remains.
Keching 