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Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time
Many centuries before Dungeons & Dragons was even a glimmer in the eye of Gary Gygax, ancient Egyptians were rolling a d20 die.
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Doesn't look all that straight meaning the odds weren't exactly 1/20.
Haha, back in those days, the odds weren't exactly even on anything except for maybe "boy" or "girl".
Well the laws of probability weren't very well-defined in Ancient Greece...they probably assumed this was a close enough approximation.