Views On The History Of Craps
Craps history, like the history of many other casino games is a debatable question. One can say that a dice and dice games are few thousand years old. However modern craps appeared much later - only hundred years ago. The scientists have some different points of view about craps history and accept a few facts as true. An ancient English game called Hazard is considered by most of the scientists to be the ancestor of the modern craps. Some scholars believe that Hazard descended from an Arabic dice game Al Zar and then came to Europe with the merchants. There are evidences for dice games even in Egypt dating back to 2600 BC which may prove that dice games did originate in the Arabic world. There is also an evidence that a form of craps can be dated back to the time of the Holy Roman Empire. Roman soldiers shaved down pig knuckles into the shapes of cubes, and tossed them onto their inverted shields for entertainment while in camp. Therefore the expression "to roll the bones" appeared. The game Hazard received much popularity in England and in the 17th century there wasn't a single tavern in England where the game Hazard wasn't very well known. A lot of people, even nobility, liked this game very much and it was played in the most luxuriant casinos of England. Having adopted the game from their neighbors, the French changed the name of it.*The French called this game Craps which is a corruption of "Crabs". The game could have been brought to America either by the French or by the British. At the beginning of the 19th century craps history takes another turn as John H. Winn simplified Craps and invented the modern layout to the game. But as the decades past, and especially at the beginning of the 1990's, slots caused a decrease in the popularity of craps games, but thanks to the Internet age the game managed to pull back its honor. Everyday thousands of people play online craps.
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