The rules of play we follow today were outlined at the start of the 20th century.
It quickly spread throughout the continent with the Mississippi steamboats, but it was in the mid 19th century that the name “craps” officially prevailed. After France lost control over Acadia, the French settlers moved down South, bringing the dice game to the state of Louisiana. In the beginning of the 18th century, craps traveled to the New World, when the French established the colony of Acadia in what is now Nova Scotia, Canada. It was in the Middle Ages that craps started to gain popularity, especially among the privileged nobility of France and England. Evidence suggests a similar game was played in Ancient Rome where soldiers from the legions would carve pig knuckles into small cubes to use as dice.Īccording to some historians, craps resulted from the simplification of the game of “hazard” which was allegedly an invention of an English nobleman by the name of William of Tyre. Tracing where the game originated from is certainly not an easy task.
