My stepson, an avid backgammon player, tossed the dice—and one landed on its point and stayed there.

These are regulation backgammon dice, precision engineered.

I can assure readers that there is no photoshopping going on here. What you see is what happened, captured on his cellphone. So, science and math whizzes out there—how does one calculate the odds of this happening? Compared to this, a coin landing on its edge is commonplace.