There is no certain point of view about craps history even nowadays. The history of the dice and the dice games history in general is few thousands years old. However modern craps appeared much later - only hundred years ago. There are several versions to the "true" craps history, yet there are several facts that are accepted by all experts and historians. First, it is known that the craps game we know and play today originated from an ancient English game called Hazard. 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. Thanks to some evidences for dice games even in Egypt dating back to 2600 BC we can conclude that dice games were really created 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. Soldiers in the Roman Legions used to shave down pig knuckles into the shapes of cubes, and toss them onto their inverted shields as a form of entertainment while in camp. Hence we get the term "to roll the bones". By the 17th century there wasn't a single tavern in England where the game Hazard wasn't played as it became very famous. Many of the nobility played this game in luxuries casinos. 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". The game could have been brought to America either by the French or by the British. The history of craps developed and the game got simplified by John H. Winn. 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. Now craps is played online by many people.

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