Like many other casino games, craps history is a matter to some debate. 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. To begin with, the modern variant of the craps game certainly originates from an ancient English game called Hazard. 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. Being in camp, Roman soldiers used to shave down pig knuckles into the shapes of cubes, and toss them onto their inverted shields as a form of entertainment. Therefore the expression "to roll the bones" appeared. The game Hazard became very popular in England and it was played almost in every tavern in the country. The game was played in luxuries casinos and many of the nobility were fond of Hazard. The French adopted the game from their neighbors across the English Channel but changed the name in order to distinguish themselves from the Englishmen.*New name of the game was Craps which is a corruption of "Crabs". Maybe the game came to America with the French and maybe with 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. The years passed and there was a a decrease in the popularity of craps at the beginning of the 1990's, but the Internet age helped the game to gain popularity again. A great number of people play craps online nowadays.

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