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Patolli used marked beans as dice
Mesoamerican patolli used black beans as dice. A hole on one side exposed a white mark, so a toss produced marked and unmarked faces. A cube printed with numbers is only one way to generate a game’s random result.
The bean’s two sides supplied the outcome.
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Reviewed: 2026-10-05