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Dice-based divination systems

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As far as I'm aware dice don't seem to be used as much for divination purposes. The only one I've seen so far that incorporates them as a core part of the design is the Mo divination system from Tibet. There are a few other oracles where one can use dice to generate the results like the I Ching (I personally use four dice as in the four coins method) for generating hexagrams, Geomancy for generating the four mothers at the start of the process, the only other one I've seen is John Opsopaus describing it as an alternative to using knuckle bones for the Greek Alphabet Oracle that he describes in his book.

Do any of you know of any other oracle that is based around them? Have you created any yourself?
 

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Grimoire of John Fian has short chapter about it (7 pages). It states its old tradition from North Berwick region.

It uses six dices, two are larger... I know there is another longer text of similar method featuring examples but just cannot find it.

Sorry I cannot be of more help.
 

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Was alos going to recommend Grimoire of John Fian, MO is a tibetan divination system that uses dice.
 

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Here's one by @yuiluy

 

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As far as I'm aware dice don't seem to be used as much for divination purposes. The only one I've seen so far that incorporates them as a core part of the design is the Mo divination system from Tibet. There are a few other oracles where one can use dice to generate the results like the I Ching (I personally use four dice as in the four coins method) for generating hexagrams, Geomancy for generating the four mothers at the start of the process, the only other one I've seen is John Opsopaus describing it as an alternative to using knuckle bones for the Greek Alphabet Oracle that he describes in his book.

Do any of you know of any other oracle that is based around them? Have you created any yourself?
Elemental Divination: A Dice Oracle by Stephen Ball
 
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