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.

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 different states.

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 ...

12,000-year-old dice hint at gambling habits as early as the last Ice Age

"This is the first evidence we have of structured human engagement with the concepts of chance and randomness." ...
Science Daily

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

More than 12,000 years ago, Native American hunter-gatherers were already making and using dice—thousands of years before similar tools appeared elsewhere. These bone “binary lots” acted like ...

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 ...
Ars Technica

A probability question with lots of dice: how do I calculate this?

It's been a long time since I scraped through my probability and stats class in college... There is a time-killing dice game a friend (seems to have) invented: You start with a pool 10 6-sided ...

12,000-Year-Old Native American Dice Rewrite the History of Gambling

Long before ancient civilizations in the Old World, Native American hunter-gatherers were already playing games of chance using carefully crafted bone dice more than 12,000 years ago. New research ...