Pickup Craps – Hints and Strategies: The History of Craps

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

Be clever, play smart, and master craps the correct way!

Dice and dice games goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the origin of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.

Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the English, the French relocated south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.