Become Versed in Craps – Hints and Plans: The History of Craps
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. Many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. Later, he developed the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.