An innovation which is fictional, but, following the logic of cognitive estrangement (characteristic of science fiction), is lent plausibility by the assumption that the fictional universe is scientifically consistent.
A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin novum.
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