Many historians say that the first dice players appeared in the ancient Roman Empire. As a matter of fact there many players that time in Rome, including the emperors, and of all the attempted to cheat when playing dices. Have you ever asked when appeared the first dice? Well, is know that the first dice shaped as a cube appeared in 600 B.C. Some people even say that the ancient Indians played dices, in fact, they made bets, some of them even wagered a fortune. Dice games have been always popular in Asia. Even in historical films you can see how Japanese people play dice games, the games were primitive, because there were only two bets, on odds or evens. They made dices form animal bones.
In the B.C. era, there weren’t dice, that’s why the people use to throw several different items to gamble and predict the future of their tribes. One thing we know for sure, dices have been with us for a long time. Even thou when we think about dice we imagine a cube with six numbers printed on it, dices weren’t always like today. People made dices from any available material from wood to stones. Nowadays hard cellulose is used to make the dices.

Craps did not appear in the B.C. era, it appeared before that. Some researchers say that a variation of craps is Sic Bo. This is an ancient Chinese game were three dices are used to play. This game has the same bets, but with different names, and the rules are different. Most of the researchers believe that in reality craps appeared a hundred years ago in England, and the game was called Hazard. Other people believe that the game appeared in the 12th century in other European country, but probably the game was brought to America under the name Hazard by Mayflower.

French people also brought the game on the 18th or 19th century, the name of the game was craps. During the years there were many different tables and rules for this entertaining game, but nowadays you can play the most popular version in the casinos. In the beginning of the game, the only available bet was against the house.

The three bets available in the modern game were created by Winn. These bets are the right, the wrong and don’t pass. This version of the game was placed in casinos in 1931, and nowadays has become popular not only in North America.

We can say that craps is a game that haven’t changed much during time, the main objective of the game is to beat the house, the only new thing are the progressive jackpots in some casinos.