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Become Versed in Craps – Pointers and Schemes: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play cunning, and become versed in craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French headed down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. Most acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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