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Ancient Native American Dice Games Reveal Early Understanding of Probability
April 3, 2026
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New research uncovers how Native Americans played games of chance with dice for over 12,000 years, predating similar developments in the Old World by millennia.
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.
Source: Ars Technica
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