Dice Game in Java

Lovey Arora Oct 12, 2023

Java

This tutorial will demonstrate a program to create a simple dice game in Java.

For this, we will use the java.util.Random package to generate random numbers between 1 and 6 that will represent the numbers on the dice. In our example, we will emulate the N dice roller. We will throw N number of dies whose result we will add and print.

We can use this program as a base to design various other dice games.

See the code given below.

import java.util.Random;
import java.util.Scanner;

public class Main {
  public static void main(String args[]) {
    System.out.print("Enter the number of dice: ");

    Scanner input = new Scanner(System.in);
    int numberOfDice = input.nextInt();

    Random ranNum = new Random();

    System.out.print("Hey Coder! You rolled: ");
    int total = 0;
    int randomNumber = 0;

    for (int i = 0; i < numberOfDice; i++) {
      randomNumber = ranNum.nextInt(6) + 1;
      total = total + randomNumber;
      System.out.print(randomNumber);
      System.out.print(" ");
    }

    System.out.println("");
    System.out.println("Total: " + total);
    input.close();
  }
}

Output:

Enter the number of dice: 6
Hey Coder! You rolled: 2 6 3 2 2 4
Total: 19

In the above example, we ask the user to input the total number of dice. Since the user entered 6, we generated 6 random numbers between 1 and 6 to represent the result of each dice. We added the result for each observation and printed the result.

We can generate more complicated games by using this as a base.