Send a dice on its own and it rolls. The number is decided by Telegram's servers, not by your phone, and everybody in the chat watches the same animation land on the same result.
That is why groups use these to settle things. It is the one piece of randomness in the app that nobody in the conversation can influence.
What you will be able to do
- check_circle Roll a dice, throw a dart, shoot a basket or spin the slots in a chat.
- check_circle Explain why the result cannot be faked by either side.
- check_circle Use one to run a fair draw in a group.
- check_circle Spot the two ways somebody could still cheat with one.
The animation is the same length for everyone and ends on the value the server already chose — the suspense is decoration.
casino The result is not computed on your phone
When you send one of these emoji on its own, your client asks the servers for an outcome. The servers pick it and attach it to the message, and every participant's client then plays the animation that ends on that value.
Nothing about the roll happens locally, so a modified app cannot produce a six, and the person receiving it cannot change what they see. Both sides are looking at the same recorded number.
The set covers a dice, a dart board, a basketball hoop, a football goal, a bowling lane and a slot machine. Each has its own range and its own animation; the dice is the one that matters for settling arguments because its six outcomes are equally likely.
Running something fair with one
Two good uses, and two ways the fairness can still be undermined by a person rather than by the mechanism.
casino Who goes first, who pays
group A prize draw in a group
share A forwarded roll is not a new roll
repeat Rolling until you like the answer
The mechanism is trustworthy; the procedure around it is what people cheat. State the rule before the roll.
settings Sending one
- Type the emoji on its own Nothing else in the message.
- Send it The animation plays for everybody in the chat as it arrives.
- Tap it to send another On most clients tapping the sent one offers to roll again, which is faster than typing it out.
- Read the value from the result, not the animation Holding the message shows the number it landed on.
- For anything with stakes, say the rule first In the same chat, before the roll.
This page is the smallest interactive thing Telegram can send. The curriculum step covers the rest of them: buttons under a message, what they can trigger, and how an interactive post is built when an emoji is not enough.
At a glance
- 1Dice and games
Send a dice, dart, basketball or slot emoji to play.
- 2Server decides
The result is set by Telegram, not by either player.
- 3Fair rules
Roll in the chat itself; forwarded rolls keep their old result.
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