The recently discovered 12,000-year-old dice made from wood and bone by Native American hunter gatherers. Robert Madden Humans have always been playful. But for much of our history, play has left ...

Late Pleistocene, Early Holocene, Middle Holocene, and Late Holocene diagnostic and probable prehistoric Native American dice (images courtesy Robert J. Madden) New research published in the journal ...

The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from approximately 3000 BC uncovered in Mesopotamia and the Indus Valley. Now, a new study has found ...

Cultures around the world have been playing games of chance for millennia. Previously, historians had discovered examples of dice dating back some 5,500 years. But new research may push back that ...

In dusty excavation reports and antiquarian volumes, a lawyer-turned-archaeologist has uncovered evidence that upends the known history of human gambling. Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get ...

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 ...

I love games where you make increasingly bigger numbers. Games like Balatro, Luck Be a Landlord, and Nubby’s Number Factory have consumed immense amounts of my time. While many people this month have ...

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Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind the awards season’s most talked-about movies continues with Warner Bros‘ Weapons. Writer-director Zach Cregger described the ...

Live entertainment and tech platform Fever said on Thursday it acquired the U.K. ticketing and discovery platform Dice. Fever’s acquisition will allow fans to continue enjoying everything Dice has to ...