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, the history of modern craps is a lot shorter – only hundred years. 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. Later the game was adopted by the French but the name of it was changed.*The French called this game Craps which is a corruption of "Crabs". Some claim that the French took the game to America while others think it probably went 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. 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. A great number of people play craps online nowadays.

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