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Be cunning, play brilliant, and become versed in craps the right way!
Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps developed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French headed south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was acquired from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. A good many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he designed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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