Be a Master of Craps – Tips and Plans: The Background of Craps
Posted in Craps on 04/10/2025 05:25 am by Donovan
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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when displaced by the British, the French moved down south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the term for the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and all over the country. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he designed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.