Be a Master of Craps – Hints and Techniques: The Background of Craps
Be cunning, play clever, and master craps the ideal way!
Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps formed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s horsemen enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was derived from the term for the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and across the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.