Learn to Play Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 05/11/2018 04:25 pm by Donovan
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Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Current craps come about from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French moved down south and found refuge in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and across the country. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.