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Dice were probably evolved from knucklebones, and knucklebones from odd-shaped pebbles. The word “probably” is used because those small cubes of bone, ivory, wood or plastic have a contradictory, but romantic, history. We’ll touch upon some of it here for the sake of the curious.
One thing seems certain, knucklebones or dice go back nearly to the creation of man. And wherever dice have been found, whether in the- tombs of ancient Egypt, of classic Greece, or of the far East, they differ in no material respect from those in use today. Of course, they were not always simple spotted cubes. Some were elongated or octagonal or with as many as fourteen flat surfaces. But all the surfaces had their different values and were counted, like dice.
It is almost impossible to trace clearly the development of dice as distinguished from knucklebones. In the beginning, dice had anywhere from six to twenty flat sides of different values, and knucklebones had only four. Ancient writers confused the two games, and rarely agreed on the origin of either. It is certain, however, that both were played in times before written records were kept.
Sophocles tells us that a Greek invented the game of dice, and taught it to his countrymen during the seige of Troy. Herodotus, the so-called “Father of History,” says the Lydians invented knucklebones, dice and all other games except chess. Then, too, dicing is credited with being an old Indian game.
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