Learn to Play Craps – Tricks and Tactics: The Past of Craps
Be clever, play clever, and become versed in craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when driven away by the English, the French headed south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the country. A few acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spots for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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