Become Versed in Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be smart, play cunning, and discover how to play craps the right way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A great many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He put in place the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.