• BaroqueInMind
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    88 months ago

    they (and the Egyptians) invented

    So you mean the Egyptians invented it and the Greeks/Romans simply appropriated it like they did everything else.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      58 months ago

      Possibly. The article doesn’t make clear which is older.

      • Skua
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        58 months ago

        We know that Plato and co did a lot of chatting about the shape at least. Since the period of Egypt that these old dice come from is the Greek-influenced Ptolemaic, and Rome was pretty big on its Greek culture anyway, I wonder if it started use there?

    • Shalakushka
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      58 months ago

      Conveniently forgets the whole dynasty when Egypt was ruled by Greeks

  • @15liam20
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    8 months ago

    The Egyptians also invented the five-sided dice but they were too huge to roll.

  • @[email protected]
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    48 months ago

    I mean… You can play D&D with 6-sided dice, 4-sided dice, a deck of cards, matchsticks, rock paper scissors, /dev/random, bones with symbols carved onto them, and leaves in the wind.