There are several takes on the true craps dice history. To help you better understand & play online craps dice, we detail two takes on craps dice history below.
The First Take on craps dice History
According to *Richard Epstein*, craps dice is descended from an earlier game known as H-a-z-a-r-d, that dates to the Middle Ages. The formal rules for Hazard were established by Montmort early in the ~1700s. The origin of the name craps dice is shrouded in doubt, but it may have come from the English crabs, or from the French Crapeaud.
There is also evidence that a form of craps dice 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 & toss them onto their inverted shield's as a form of entertainment while in camp. Hence we get the term: "to roll the bones".
We do know that the game we know today as "craps dice" came to the US from Europe.
Three are two general forms of craps dice played today that can be traced back in craps dice history - "Bank craps dice" & "Street craps dice". In recent times, the online version - Online craps dice - has also become very popular.
Street craps dice is the game you find played on the street. A shooter establishes a point, then tries to make that point. Bettors either bet with the shooter or against the shooter. Someone must "fade" the shooter ("cover the bet") in order for the game to progress.
Bank craps dice is what we normally see in the online casino. The "bank" part of the name comes from the fact that someone or something must "bank" the online game. That is, cover all bets of the gamblers. In this manner, the gamblers are playing against the house.
The Second Take on craps dice History
By author *Mark Pilarski* states Back before the Middle Ages, the Arabs played a game using little numbered cubes, called H-a-z-a-r-d. The roll of lowest value in that game was called crabs. The game showed up across the Mediterranean in France, where it was renamed h-a-s-a-r-d, then jumped the English Channel to England some time before 1500AD where it was given the English spelling of the same word. The French, trying to be amiable, adopted that term from the English, but spelling it the French way as crabes. In the early 1700, the game crossed the Atlantic to the French colony of "Acadia".
In 1756, the French lost "Acadia" to the English who promptly renamed it "Nova Scotia" & chucked out the French speaking Acadians, who roamed around a bit & finally relocated in Louisiana, where they were called Cajuns & developed a language called Louisiana French. They still played the good old dice games, but dropped the title of hasard & called the game simply crebs or creps, which was their spelling of the French crabes.
By 1844, the Cajun word came into American English as craps dice. 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 thats another story.
By 1886, such expressions as craps dice game, craps dicetable & craps diceshooter were found to be just too finicky so the final s was dropped where it served no useful purpose as in composites like craps dicehooter, craptable, crap game etc., & retained where it refers only to the game (game of craps dice) or the losing roll (he rolled craps dice, he craps dice out) or where it would be too hard to pronounce (rather than she craps diceed out, she crapped out).
Whatever the origins of the game/the true craps dice history, online craps dice is simply the online version of craps dice, & without a doubt & online craps dice is just as exciting!
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