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Master Craps – Hints and Tactics: The Background of Craps
Be cunning, play cunning, and discover how to play craps the ideal way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient Anglo game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the English, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. Most think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he developed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.