The article presents the results of the research of astragali (talus bones) excavated in 2022 at the Golden Horde Podymalovo-1 (XIV). Settlement. The collection of animal astragals was studied with use-wear analysis. The obtained data were compared with the results of studies of similar artefacts made of talus bones which had been discovered at the ethnographic expedition in 2019 in the village of Nyzhnebaltachevo, the Tatyshlinsky district, in the Republic of Bashkortostan. Those objects were used in the game known as “loedyiga” (a kind of game similar to “fi ve stones/bones”). The analysis of two collections revealed identical processing traces which had been left when the bones had been extracted from the limbs of animals. However, the wear marks differed in their character. The use of use-wear analysis and comparative methods in the study of the talus bones of animals discovered at the village of Podymalovo-1 made it possible to classify them as dice (“chips” and “bits”). It was concluded that the astragals could have been used in a version of the game different from the game“five stones/bones”.