Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Schemes: The Background of Craps
Be cunning, play brilliant, and discover how to play craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for sure the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when banished by the British, the French moved down south and discovered sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the nation. Most think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the current craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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