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15 September
2006
Still Rolling
Before playing cards hit
the market, dice was all the rage.
While people had to wait
for paper to be invented before they could play cards, dice
games had already been played for hundreds of years with
stones, wood and even knucklebones.
One of the earliest
documented dice games was called Hazard. Popular theory has
it that it began in the Middle East where it was called
Azzahr (the Arabic word for 'die'). The game made it to
France and became known as Hasard. Then the English learn to
play, called it Hazard.
As oceans were crossed and
new nations were discovered, the game, popular amongst
sailors, traveled too. Somehow it came to be found in New
Orleans in the 1800's with a variety of rules and odds,
depending where you played. The Louisiana French then made a
point of standardising and simplifying the game. They called
the lowest roll 'crabes' and soon began referring to the
game that way.
Ultimate it came to be
known worldwide as craps.
Also see:
The
History Of Craps
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