Like many other casino games, craps history is a matter to some debate. The scholars suppose that dice and dice games in general appeared few thousands years ago. But modern craps is much younger - only hundred years old. There exist some versions cocerning craps history and there are not many facts that are considered to be true. An ancient English game called Hazard is considered by most of the scientists to be the ancestor of the modern craps. One point of view is that an Arabic dice game called "Al Zar" was the ancestor of craps which was brought to Europe by 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 exist some facts according to which a form of craps was played in 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. That is why we use the term "to roll the bones" nowadays. By the 17th century there wasn't a single tavern in England where the game Hazard wasn't played as it became very famous. The game was played in luxuries casinos and many of the nobility were fond of Hazard. Later the game was adopted by the French but the name of it was changed.*The game was called Craps which is a corruption of "Crabs". The game could have been brought to America either by the French or by the British. By the 19th century craps was simplified and the modern layout of the game was invented by John H. Winn. 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. Everyday thousands of people play online craps.

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