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Early dice almost certainly didn't have six sides. In fact, knucklebone dice might have been rolled for "yes" and "no" questions before being numbered, with the two larger, flatter sides providing the result, says Finkel. One side might have been rubbed in charcoal so that one face was black and one white.

There are other contenders for the earliest dice; two-sided throwing sticks were used in Ancient Egypt at roughly the same time, "which long preceded the manufacture of six-sided dice", says Finkel, and four-sided pyramids were used in the Middle East. You might also like:. Some of the earliest games we can be certain about include one called "20 squares" in which players race counters across a board of 20 squares, some of which are safe, some of which are shared with your opponent, giving them a chance to send your counter back to the start.

The game has been likened to backgammon. Versions of this game have been found in North Africa, the Middle East and Indian subcontinent , the most notable example of which is the Royal Game of Ur, named after the ancient city in Mesopotamia now Iraq. The Ur board, inlaid with a mosaic made of seashells and played using a pyramid-shaped die, dates to the mid-third millennium BC and is on display at the British Museum.

It was Finkel who uncovered its rules. Another game called senet was played in Egypt around the same time. Several well-preserved boards have been found in tombs of the pharaohs and pictured in wall paintings. The Ur board is exquisite, but simple boards were scratched into stone or even the earth. He says it is difficult to know how earlier versions of these games developed if they were played on the earth with pebbles, so boards made for the rich left in burial chambers and illustrations on walls provide the best materials to work from.

Examples from earlier than the third millennium BC become contentious. These holes have been likened to a modern African game called mancala in which two players race seeds or pebbles between the holes.

It is impossible to tell if these holes are an early version of mancala as the playing pieces do not remain. This is highly unlikely," he says. But Finkel says "they are more likely to be games than anything else.

Some say they are a type of early calculator or were used in rituals. This is possible. But there was an excavation in Arad in southern Israel in which many houses had one of these flat, prepared boards with parallel holes. Maybe [the inhabitants] just sat there and made calculations all day — but I don't believe it. I believe it was for fun.