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  2. Toys and games in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

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    Smaller dice were made by an elongated rod used to plane, or smooth, the cortical bone of a diaphysis. Then, a deep groove was used to saw off different segments of the bone, partially separating them into dice. They were possibly not completely separated at this stage; instead, they may have been loosely connected to each other through a ...

  3. Dice - Wikipedia

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    Dice of different sizes being thrown in slow motion. A die (sg.: die or dice; pl.: dice) [1] 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 games, role-playing games, and games of chance.

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  5. History of games - Wikipedia

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    Some of the most common pre-historic and ancient gaming tools were made of bone, especially from the Talus bone, these have been found worldwide and are the ancestors of knucklebones as well as dice games. [5] Dice were invented at least 5,000 years ago and early dice probably did not have six sides. [6]

  6. Long dice - Wikipedia

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    Both cubic dice and four-faced long dice are found as early as the mid third millennium BCE at Indus Valley civilisation sites; these are marked variously with dot-and-ring figures, linear devices, and Indus Valley signs. [2] Dot-and-ring figures are used to this day on long dice in India, and predominate in the central European long dice shown ...

  7. Four-sided die - Wikipedia

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    Four-sided dice were among the gambling and divination tools used by early man who carved them from nuts, wood, stone, ivory and bone. [2] Six-sided dice were invented later but four-sided dice continued to be popular in Russia. In Ancient Rome, elongated four-sided dice were called tali while the six-sided cubic dice were tesserae. [3]

  8. New species of titanosaur identified amid group of ancient ...

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    A new species of dinosaur has been identified more than a decade after a large number of ancient skeletons were found in Spain -- and researchers expect more species to be discovered. The ...

  9. Astragalomancy - Wikipedia

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    The dice themselves in some cultures instead are carved out of manioc or plantain as opposed to llama bones, and are carved in the shape of a canoe. [29] Both llamas and canoes hold significance as they are both symbols of travel, with both llamas and canoes being used to carry cargo long distances, and so the playing of the game assists the ...

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