Dice have kept us company for thousands of years, and some of the games have survived almost as long. Hazard was the great dice game of the Middle Ages and the ancestor of modern craps. Cho-Han is the Japanese classic where everything rides on odd or even.
History you can play
The rules here are written for ordinary dice, so the games can be tried at the kitchen table tonight. Where the sources are uncertain, the page says clearly that the rules are a modern reconstruction. It makes each game a small journey in time: the same tension now as centuries ago.