Origin year places a game in the year its rules were first fixed in writing. Wikipedia notes rugby football's "rules were first put down in written (codified) form in 1845," even though students had already been playing an informal version "since at least the early 1820s." Browsing by origin year separates when a game's rules were formalized from when it was actually first played.
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Era of Origin 1770s
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1. Wikipedia: Dice
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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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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.