Craps Information

Read more about the
Las Vegas 2024 Super
Bowl Streaker!

Be clever, play cunning, and master craps the proper way!

Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Modern craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French moved down south and found safety in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the modern craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he created the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.