
The Dice Man
Novel by George CockcroftWikipedia
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Aug 25, 2026
'Yes Man' (2008)
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59:06ElliotHOST
I'm just gonna go with whatever the world presents me, which doesn't always have, like, positive, you know, incarnations.
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59:12ElliotHOST
In the 1970s, there was a novelist by the name of Luke Rhinehart, whose real name is George Cockcroft, that was his pen name, who wrote a novel called The Dice Man.
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59:22ElliotHOST
The n- the idea for The Dice Man being that he would roll a dice at e- every opportunity he could to give himself six different possibilities as to how he would play a certain situation.
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59:33ElliotHOST
So many people sort of thought that it was like a, an, just a novel, just something that had been made up.
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59:39ElliotHOST
George Cockcroft described that one night when he was at college, he and his friends used a quirk to decide what they were going to do that night, and it would sort of roll between, you know, doing s- just going out to a bar, meeting up with other people, all the way to, like, really kind of mischievous pranks.