Hey, this sounded like a cool little challenge! 👩‍💻🎲

So, I was thinking about your idea—recognizing dice rolls from ASCII art, and at first I was like, “How am I even supposed to approach this?!” 🙈 ASCII seems pretty basic, but catching all those variations, alignment issues, and stuff sounded kinda tricky.

Then it clicked! 💡 I thought maybe I could focus on counting how many dots are on each dice directly, since dots (“*”) are what really matter, right? Like, as each dice number has a unique and fixed number of dots, counting stars could easily tell you the dice number. But the spacing and alignment can totally mess with your counting—ugh, so annoying! 😂

First, let me show you how I imagine processing the dice:

   +-------+
   |   *   |
   |       |
   |   *   |
   +-------+
  

Here, just visually, I see 2 dots, meaning it’s obviously a TWO. If I somehow find and count the asterisk characters (“*”) within the borders, I can pretty easily determine each dice roll.

Here is some rough beginner-friendly approach that’s been bouncing around my head (I’m pretty new at this too! 😅):

• Step 1: Try to extract the dice ASCII art out of all surrounding text (so it’s easier to work with).
• Step 2: Run through each line of text representing the dice ASCII art and count all the “*” characters you find.
• Step 3: Get the total count of these “*” characters: this total should directly tell you the dice number.

Here’s a simple pseudo code snippet explaining how we might tackle it:

    dice_art = """
    +-------+
    |   *   |
    |       |
    |   *   |
    +-------+
    """

    total_dots = 0
    split dice_art into lines
    for each line in dice_art:
        for each character in line:
            if character == "*":
                add 1 to total_dots

    print total_dots  # this should give dice number
  

The tricky part here is if someone puts extra spaces or alignment is off. To make our program kinda robust, we probably shouldn’t rely on dots’ exact positions because they can shift around. Instead, we just count them wherever they might appear inside the dice boundaries.

If you wanna get fancy down the line, you could even use Python or JavaScript to automate this easily. Maybe store dice rolls as arrays of characters or something, and count stars in each array. Or try some pattern recognition later if you feel like a challenge!

This whole thing got me interested! Might even consider building a simple Python script to actually code this out and see it work live.

Hope this rough answer helps! Let me know how it works or if you get stuck—happy coding and have fun! 😊