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19th Century Portable Round Wooden Box dice Game. The picture shows a view of storing or holding many Dice. This would be a great gift for a someone that loves playing dice games.

Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dice_game

The dice are cubes with engraved numbers on each side. The engraved numbers are darker than the bright dice. Dice were used in one of the famous Egyptian local games, now known as backgammon. In this game, the players throw the dice on the backgammon in turns. This type of die is often found with a backgammon game consisting of two grooves used for holding the game disks so that each player would have a different colored set of disks. People have been playing dice games for a very long time. The very first dice were just sheep knucklebones, and you won if it landed on this side or that side. The oldest dice almost always have the one opposite the six, the three opposite the four, and the two opposite the five. This is true all over Europe, Asia, and Africa. The reason they have spots instead of written numbers is that people have been using dice since long before they invented a way to write numbers. Because they were small and not very valuable, archaeologists often find ancient dice.