1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (582+ words) Winning the lottery is a dream that most of us share. However, for the vast majority of people, the occasional lottery ticket is just that, occasional. For the few who feel the need to purchase a lottery ticket weekly, and…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (795+ words) Native American dice dating back 12, 000 years rewrite the global history of probability and gambling Twelve thousand years ago, as the last Ice Age loosened its grip on the North American West, hunter-gatherers met to trade, forge alliances, and gamble. They…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago  (782+ words) Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that Native Americans were using dice more than 12, 000 years ago, significantly pushing back the known origins of gambling and games of chance. The findings, published in American Antiquity, suggest that early hunter-gatherer societies in North America…...

5+ day, 1+ hour ago  (323+ words) American archaeologists have revised the history of gambling: it turns out that gaming "dice" originated not in ancient Mesopotamia but in North America " around 12, 000 years ago. This is thousands of years earlier than previously believed. This was reported by NBC…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago  (901+ words) Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that rolled with it, went out on a limb, gravitationally waved, and spotted relics in our midst. First, hundreds of prehistoric dice sets shed light on the dawn of…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago  (615+ words) It was the Dice Age. An analysis of 12, 000-year-old Native American dice could potentially provide the first-ever proof of humans gambling, per a groundbreaking study published in the journal American Antiquity. "This is the first evidence we have of structured…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (351+ words) New findings suggest that humans might have begun gambling some 12, 000 years ago. Researchers from Colorado State University discovered what seem to be the oldest known dice, dating back to the end of the last Ice Age. These items were found…...

1+ week, 4+ hour ago  (670+ words) "Historians have traditionally treated dice and probability as Old World innovations," Madden said. "What the archaeological record shows is that ancient Native American groups were deliberately making objects designed to produce random outcomes, and using those outcomes in structured games,…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (321+ words) Picture the scene. You have spent the last forty minutes meticulously positioning your squad in XCOM or lining up the absolute perfect stealth attack in Baldur's Gate 3. The game gleefully informs you that you have a 95% chance to hit your…...