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All Games of Chance

Games whose outcome is dominated by an unpredictable mechanism rather than player skill, covering Craps, Liar's Dice, Yahtzee and Bingo by dice or drawn-number mechanism, and Rock Paper Scissors by outcome unpredictability from either player's perspective even though it uses neither dice nor cards, a browsing convenience recorded here rather than a claim that it shares a mechanism with the others. Belongs here: games decided primarily by a random or unpredictable event. Does not belong here: card games of chance, which this tree groups with the rest of the card-game families below by their shared card-based equipment instead.

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2500 BCE 1
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Ampe (game)

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Bầu cua cá cọp

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Bingo

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Blind hookey

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Bo Bing (game)

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Boule (gambling game)

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Button Men

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Cee-lo

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Cetno i licho

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Challenge The Yankees

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Choboichi

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Chō-han

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Chuck-a-luck

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Cosmic Wimpout

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Craps

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Crown and anchor

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Diamant (board game)

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Dice tower

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Dreidel

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Drop dead (dice game)

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Dudo

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Eurojackpot

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Faro (card game)

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Florida Lottery

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Glückshaus

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Go First Dice

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Hand-in-cap

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Hazard

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Hoo Hey How

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Kansas Lottery

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Kitsune bakuchi

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Liar's Dice

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Lotto 6/49

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Macao (card game)

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Mexico (game)

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Mouse Trap (board game)

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Odds and evens (hand game)

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Owzthat

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Pass the Pigs

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Polish bank

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Road trip bingo

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Rock Paper Scissors

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Shut the box

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Silesian lottery

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Stuss

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SuperEnalotto

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Swipe (dice game)

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The Game of Cootie

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Tontine (card game)

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True Dough Mania

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USA Rock Paper Scissors League

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Venus Throw

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Yacht

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Yahtzee

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Yatzy

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Sources
1. Wikipedia: Dice
WikipediaDice, History section
Quote, Dice, History section
Possibly the oldest known dice were excavated as part of a backgammon-like game set at the Burnt City, an archeological site in south-eastern Iran, estimated to be from between 2800 and 2500 BCE.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Why is Rock Paper Scissors grouped with dice games like Craps?

It is included for its outcome unpredictability, a browsing convenience, not a claim that it shares a mechanism with dice or card games of chance.

Games of Chance covers games whose outcome is dominated by an unpredictable mechanism rather than player skill, including Craps, Liar's Dice, Yahtzee and Bingo by dice or drawn-number mechanism. Rock Paper Scissors is included by outcome unpredictability from either player's perspective, even though it uses neither dice nor cards, a browsing convenience recorded here rather than a claim that it shares a mechanism with the others.