Jackpot! Archaeologists just found the world's oldest dice

They’re not the six-sided dice we’re familiar with now, but these ancient tools were crucial for rudimentary games of chance ...

Native American use of dice, probability predates currently known Old World dice by millenia

In total, archaeologist Robert Madden observed 659 sets of Native American dice from 57 archaeological sites across 12 ...

Prehistoric dice suggest that Native Americans may have been gaming since the last ice age

A new study claims Native Americans have been using dice to gamble and explore probability for more than 12,000 years.
Laconia Daily Sun

Native Americans invented dice and gambled 12,000 years ago

The earliest examples were discovered at Late Pleistocene Folsom-period archaeological sites in Wyoming, Colorado, and New ...
The Economist

How games and game theory have changed the world

Playing with Reality: How Games Shape Our World. By Kelly Clancy. Riverhead Books; 368 pages; $30. Allen Lane; £25 In 1824 Prince Wilhelm of Prussia asked for a demonstration of an elaborate game he ...