A dice game of the Arapaho Indians as a coin-tossing game

In Stewart Culin’s Games of the North American Indians, one of the games he describes is an Arapaho women’s basket dice game. The original game uses five two-sided dice-like pieces tossed in a basket. A simple mathematical way to understand it is to model it instead as a coin-tossing game with 2 nickels and 3 […]