Traditional-style flash design of dice, a green bottle and a can in flames above a banner reading Roll the Dice, with no body placement shown.

Roll the dice flash with flames and banner

Traditional · Colour · Flash

The design shows two white dice with black pips, a green glass bottle and a yellow-and-red can rising in orange flames. A pale blue scroll banner across the bottom carries the words ROLL THE DICE in dark outlined lettering. Bold dark outlines and flat fills give it a classic flash look on a plain tan background.

Traditional Lettering Flame Dice Bottle Banner Lettering

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Cass had the bones cupped in one fist and the whole of Margate Pier watching her thumb. Eleven pounds sat on an upturned crate between us, and Stanley's can of Tizer had gone warm in the sun. 'Roll them, then,' he said, 'or give me my tenner back and go home to your mum.'

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I rolled. Two white dice, pips black as tar, skittered across the boards and stopped against the leg of the lemonade stall. Four and two. Stanley laughed the way men laugh when they have already spent the money, and he reached for the green glass bottle at his feet. That was when the paraffin lamp in the stall tipped over and the tarpaulin caught.

Flames climbed the canvas as if they had been waiting all summer for permission. Somebody bellowed for water. Cass didn't bellow. She knelt in the smoke, scooped the dice out of the cinders before they could split, and pressed them into my palm, still hot enough to sting. 'Four and two,' she said. 'Sounds like a rent you can pay.'

We never settled the bet. Stanley's can rolled off the pier that night and bobbed away towards the lighthouse, and I kept the dice in a biscuit tin above the sink for thirty years. Whenever I shake them now the little black pips still come up four and two, and I still think I won.