Pickup Craps – Hints and Tactics: The History of Craps

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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the origin of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.

Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved south and located sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is gotten from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. A great many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he created the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.