Dice Roll with Art

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This is a more advanced example using a dictionary with lists in the key:value pair selected using the Random feature.

import random

# ● ┌ ─ ┐ │ └ ┘  <-- These are the unicode shapes needed
dice_art = {
    1: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│         │",
        "│    ●    │",
        "│         │",
        "└─────────┘"),
    2: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│  ●      │",
        "│         │",
        "│      ●  │",
        "└─────────┘"),
    3: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│  ●      │",
        "│    ●    │",
        "│      ●  │",
        "└─────────┘"),
    4: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "│         │",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "└─────────┘"),
    5: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "│    ●    │",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "└─────────┘"),
    6: ("┌─────────┐",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "│  ●   ●  │",
        "└─────────┘")
}

dice = []
total = 0
num_of_dice = int(input("How many dice?: "))

for die in range(num_of_dice):
    dice.append(random.randint(1, 6))

for die in range(num_of_dice):
    for line in dice_art.get(dice[die]):
       print(line)

#for line in range(5):  # <-- advanced - displays dice inline
#    for die in dice:
#        print(dice_art.get(die)[line], end="")
#    print()

for die in dice:
    total += die
print(f"total: {total}")

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