Historic Folk Toys: Game, 'Wooden Dice'

Wooden DiceThis traditional Wooden Dice set comes with three wooden dice, instructions for seven easy-to-play dice games for children, and a brief history. "Let 'em roll!"Historical Background: Playing with dice dates back to ancient Greece and Rome. Dice are commonly associated with gambling but there are many other games that can be played for fun. Names for the forerunners of dice games were Astragali and Knucklebones. A game of this type is depicted in a 3rd-century B.C. Roman sculpture featuring two girls close to the ground, one of them in the position to roll. Astragali are the knucklebones of a goat. Other knucklebones are the dried ankle bones of sheep and have four different sides, flat, concave, convex, and one sinuous or curvy side. The name "k'ab" is the Arabic word for "knucklebone" and "die." The game of jacks is also known as "knucklebones" because sheep bones were used to play a game which was the forerunner of jacks.When playing dice-like games, values were given to e