Did You Know SIRI Could Roll Dice?

Maybe this isn't news, and I'm the last person to notice this, but after seeing James Wyatt mention that Siri can roll dice, I gave it a try. You can ask Siri to roll a d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, or d20 by voice, natively in iOS with no dice-rolling app required. Siri even reads the result to you. Sadly, I couldn't get Siri to understand "3d6" or "3d10" or any other multiple. Anyhow, this is news to me; I don't know if it's common knowledge to the rest of the world!

 

[Bagpuss]

Cortana only does 2d6 if you tell her to "roll dice".

 

[dbm]

I tried this. Ronald Heaton is going to get a lot of calls...

 

[doctorhook]

Sorry, I'm not anywhere that I can confirm this, but I've played with the feature in the past and I'd thought that I could get her to roll correctly if I asked, "Siri, please roll me three six-sided dice." IIRC, she gave me back a ten.

Of course, it's possible I dreamt all of this.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Nifty! Maybe that feature will actually get me to use Siri.

(I'm about 18 months into owning a 4s.)

 

[Pauper]

I asked Siri to roll three six sided dice and she brought up results for "Rule 36 sided dice".

I was too scared to click on the links...

 

[TarionzCousin]

Note: if you use Siri as a player in your game, she is notoriously bloodthirsty and will try to kill NPC's before even talking to them!

 

[Sir Brennen]

Okay, I just tried this, then tried multiples. Got the same result as Pauper.

I edited the request to be "Roll six six-sided die" and Siri responded "It's one."

To quote Siri.. I'm not sure how to respond to that.

 

[Mercule]

I tried "roll 3D6" with Cortana. It searched the Internet for 3D sex.

Immediately switched to D8 for the rest of my (unsuccessful) attempts to bend it to my will.

 

[Plane Sailing]

If I say 'dice' it just rolls 2d6 no matter what else I say. So, just for playing classic traveller then