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Be clever, play smart, and learn how to play craps the correct way!
Dice and dice games date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps formed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the beginnings of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French relocated down south and found refuge in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and all over the country. A good many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwards, he developed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
