when you throw two dice, there are 12 possible answers, but not with equal probability, because there are actual 36 different combinations.

only 1 combination (1+1) will give "2", and only 1 combination (6+6) will give us "12", but 6 combinations (1+6, 2+5, 3+4, 4+3, 5+2, 6+1) can give us "7", so "7" is the most probable result.

i use the term "dice-syndrome" to describe adding different "equal-probability" events together to come up with an unequal-probability event, such as using rand5()+rand5().

julz