In terms of money wagered, Craps is the richest game in Casino history. Hollywood has featured Craps in countless movies over the years as the game of choice for people of all walks of life. Craps is fast-moving, and exciting – throw the dice, and feel like a star!

Dice have been fascinating people and deciding fates for over 2,000 years. Even the language of dice games echoes history. When Caesar made his critical decision to take his victorious army across the Rubicon against the edict of Rome, he took his retort from the lexicon of the dice player: “lacta alea est.” The die is cast.

The most fashionable men of 18th and 19th century England rolled dice in a game called Hazard in luxurious private gambling houses. The French learned the game from the English and called it Craps, a corruption of “Crabs,” the name for a pair of ones. When settlers arrived in the New World, they brought their dice with them.

Gradually, as dice were rolled on riverboats, wharfs, and in private houses, a
simplifed Americanized version of Craps developed.

The popular game moved west with the frontier, and is played today in homes and clubs across the country. As many as 30 million Americans play dice every year, and the stakes can be gigantic. Some years ago, a Detroit businessman broke a casino bank when he won $300,000 in less than two hours of play.

Craps is fast-paced and fun. Many players consider it the most exciting casino game.

According to Richard Epstein, craps is descended from an earlier game known as Hazard, 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 is shrouded in doubt, but it may have come from the English crabs or from the French Crapeaud (for toad).

From a mathematical point of view, craps is interesting because it is an example of a random experiment that takes place in stages; the evolution of the game depends critically on the outcome of the first roll. In particular, the number of rolls is a random variable.

By Buzz B Berkeley
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