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Native Americans invented dice

Ice Age dice show early Native Americans may have understood probability

Native Americans have been playing with dice in games of chance for more than 12,000 years, according to a new paper published in the journal American Antiquity. And the oldest examples of Native American dice predate the earliest currently known dice in the Old World by millennia.

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Native American dice games date back over 12,000 years

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Native Americans were making dice, gambling, exploring probability millennia before their Old World counterparts

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Native Americans invented dice

Ancient bone dice reveal 12,000-year history of gambling in America

Why Ancient Romans Used Asymmetrical Dice With Lopsided Probabilities

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