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Become Versed in Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Background of Craps

December 13th, 2019 at 2:25

Be cunning, play brilliant, and pickup craps the proper way!

Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps formed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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