Online Craps

What do we want to know, when we start playing casino games? Rules, of course and game’s history. From all the casino games craps is the most popular. Craps comes from the old times and as all the casino games craps has its own history. The first opinion, according to Richard Epstein, is that craps is descended from an earlier game known as Hazard, that dated to the Middle Ages.

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The formal rules for Hazard were established by Montmort early in the 1700s. The origin of the name craps is shrouded in doubt, but it may have come from the English crabs, or from the French Crapeaud (for toad). There is also evidence that a form of craps can be dated back to 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". It is known that the game of Craps came to the United States from Europe. There are two general forms of craps played today that can be traced back in craps history - "Street Craps" and "Bank Craps."

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In recent times, the Internet version - Online Craps - has also become very popular. The second take on Craps history, according to Mark Pilarski, is that Craps dated back before the Middle Ages. The Arabs played a game using little numbered cubes, called azzahr (meaning "the die"). The game showed up across the Mediterranean in France, where it was renamed hazard, then jumped the English Channel to England some time before 1500 AD where it was given the English spelling of the same word, hazard. The roll of lowest value in that game was called crabs. The French, trying to be amiable, adopted that term from the English, but spelling it the French way as crabes.

In the early 1700's, the game crossed the Atlantic to the French colony of Acadia. In 1755, the French lost Acadia to the English who promptly renamed it Nova Scotia and chucked out the French-speaking Acadians, who roamed around a bit and finally relocated in Louisiana, where they were called (and still are) Cajuns, and developed a language called Louisiana French. They still played the good old dice game, but dropped the title of hazard and called the game simply crebs or creps, which was their spelling of the French crabes. By 1843, the Cajun word came into American English as Craps. People were apparently careful for a while not to omit the final s for fear of confusion with a slang term having a totally different meaning, but that's another story.

By 1885, such expressions as craps game, craps table, and craps shooter were found to be just too finical, so the final s in the word craps was dropped where it served no useful purpose as in composites like crap table, crapshooter, crap game, etc., and retained where it refers only to the game (game of craps) or the losing roll (he craps out, he rolled craps) or where it would be too hard to pronounce (she crapped out, rather than she crapsed out).

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