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physics rigged by a cheater who wants math on their side.
means A pair (or single) of dice secretly weighted or altered so they land on certain numbers more often than chance allows, used to cheat at gambling.
from Both halves are plain old English. 'Dice' is the plural of 'die,' from Old French 'de,' going back to Latin 'datum' — 'something given' (as in given, or cast, by fortune). 'Loaded' is the past participle of 'load,' from Old English 'lad,' meaning a burden or weight carried. To 'load' dice is literally to add hidden weight — historically by drilling and inserting a heavier substance, or shaving the corners — so the cube favors one face. The figurative 'loaded' (rigged, biased) grew straight out of this gambler's trick, and now we speak of 'loaded questions' and 'loaded language' as cheats of the same family.
- weight trick
- Drilled holes filled with heavy metal favor opposite faces
- tapping test
- Float-test in water reveals biased dice tumbling
- ancient cheat
- Loaded dice found in Roman and Egyptian ruins
- casino doom
- Pros use razor-edged dice to deter shaving
- saturn trick
- Mercury-filled dice shift weight on demand
binion's horseshoe las vegas — 1980s: discovered dealers were using shaved and weighted dice in high-stakes games
macau triad gambling rings — 2010s: organized crime groups arrested with precision-weighted dice in underground casinos