Native Americans invented dice and games of chance more than 12,000 years ago, archaeological study reveals

A new study shows that dice and games of chance date back thousands of years earlier than experts previously thought.
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 ...
Ancient Origins

Ice Age Casino: World's Oldest Dice Discovered in the Great Plains

A groundbreaking new study has revealed that the world's oldest known dice were crafted and used by Native American hunter-gatherers more than 12,000 years ago. These ancient gaming pieces, discovered ...

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

A new study in American Antiquity presents evidence that the earliest known dice in human history were made and used by ...

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.” ...

Developer rebuilds Doom using only CSS and HTML, turning divs into a full 3D game engine

Leenheer is best known for creating HTML5test.com, the WhichBrowser user-agent parser. He began exploring a CSS-based Doom ...
The Debrief

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

Ancient dice dating back 12,000 years suggest early humans understood chance and probability long before mathematics emerged.