Dice
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A die is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board ga
Four traditional dice showing all six different sides
Terracotta die from Mohenjo-daro, c. 2600-1900 BCE
Knucklebones die, made of soapstone
Twenty-sided serpentinite die from Ptolemaic Egypt
Backgammon
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Backgammon is a two-player board game played with counters and dice on tables boards. It is the most widespread Western member of the large family of tables games, whose ancestors date back at least 1
Dice
…indicated the number of squares a player could move, and thus functioned as a form of dice. Possibly the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800 and 2500 BCE. Bone dice from Skara Brae…
One of the gameboards found by Sir Leonard Woolley in the Royal Cemetery at Ur (British Museum)
Roman Ludus duodecim scriptorum board from the 2nd century, Aphrodisias
Poet Herr Goeli playing in the 14c, Codex Manesse, Heidelberg University Library
A Georgian noblewoman Darnica Gurieli with backgammon in the foreground, circa 1635