Dice symbols for digits up to 9

Question

I'm looking for symbols for dice faces. So far, I've found these two possibilities: The command \Cube{n} in the ifsym package, and the command \dice{n} in the epsdice package.

However, both commands only allow the standard symbols for n = 1..6.

What I'm looking for are dice symbols that include the digits 7, 8, 9 as they can be found in some extended versions of domino games.

The number 7 should look like this:

* *
***
* *

The number 8 like this:

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* *
***

and the number 9 like this:

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***

For completeness, it would also be nice if there is a blank face symbol for the digit n=0.

Is there any package allowing me to do this? If not, can anyone show me how to produce such symbols?

Answer 1

A tikz solution is obtained by modifying the answer https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/41628/15925

\documentclass[border=0.5cm]{standalone}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{shapes}
\tikzset{
  dot hidden/.style={},
  line hidden/.style={},
  dot colour/.style={dot hidden/.append style={color=#1}},
  dot colour/.default=black,
  line colour/.style={line hidden/.append style={color=#1}},
  line colour/.default=black
}

\usepackage{xparse}
\NewDocumentCommand{\drawdie}{O{}m}{%
\begin{tikzpicture}[x=1em,y=1em,radius=0.1,#1]
  \draw[rounded corners=0.5,line hidden] (0,0) rectangle (1,1);
  \ifodd#2
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.5) circle;
  \fi
  \ifnum#2>1
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.2) circle;
    \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.8) circle;
   \ifnum#2>3
     \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.8) circle;
     \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.2) circle;
    \ifnum#2>5
      \fill[dot hidden] (0.8,0.5) circle;
      \fill[dot hidden] (0.2,0.5) circle;
     \ifnum#2>7
       \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.8) circle;
       \fill[dot hidden] (0.5,0.2) circle;
      \fi
    \fi
  \fi
\fi
\end{tikzpicture}%
}  
\begin{document}

\drawdie{0}
\drawdie{1}
\drawdie[radius=0.5pt]{3}
\drawdie{7}
\drawdie[line colour=blue,thick]{8}
\drawdie[scale=0.5,dot colour=green,very thin,line hidden/.append style={fill=red}]{9}

\end{document}

The changes I have made are to add an extra case for numbers >7 (7 worked already) and removed the thick default for the border, allowing it to be set to other values in smaller sizes. I have also removed the external dotsize variable and given an example of filling.

Answer 2

You can use also the domino font:

\documentclass{article}
\font\domino=domino
\def\die#1{{\domino#1}}
\begin{document}
Normal dice: \die1 \die2 \die3 \die4 \die5 \die6 \par 
Extended version:  \die7  \die8 \die9 \die0  
\end{document}

Answer 3

(Yes, I'm adding an answer to a 7.5-year-old question).

I teach a decision sciences (math / stats) class and needed to produce a variety of icons including a 36-pair graphic of six-sided dice (seen below). That was enough to push me to make a quick, single purpose function library based on Andrew Swann's answer, above, and then to extend it to include 0-, 7-, 8-, and 9-pip icons. The code can be found at

https://github.com/jessehamner/tikzdice

Here's a screenshot of a small example (the code to make this document and one small Beamer document are also available in the repository).

Answer 4

I saw this a couple of weeks after making a dice package customdice. I didn't think of wanting 7, 8, or 9 dots, but it is straightforward to do so I incorporated this into an update v1.1.

This code

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{customdice}
\begin{document}
   \dice{0}
   \dice{1}
   \dice{2}
   \dice{3}
   \dice{4}
   \dice{5}
   \dice{6}
   \dice{7}
   \dice{8}
   \dice{9}   
\end{document}

produces dice like this

There are various options within the package to customise the size and colour of the dice faces.