oh craps! not this shit again.

gambling has been around longer than rules..... longer than morality... and the alphabet. whether you’ve ever rolled dice or not, you’ve for sure gambled before. everyone has. ancient myth even credits one man, palamedes, with inventing both letters of the alphabet and dice, which means the same figure tied to language and reason also gets blamed for chance.

the story gets stranger from there. the article below, pulled from a 1967 issue of monsieur, goes into how dice moved from divine tools to human habits and is not too concerned with where fact ends and folklore begins.

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