"Craps or Dice is one of the fastest and most exciting games to be found in any casino. The game
of Craps is thought to have come from the southern United States. Adapted from the English game
of Hazard, popular around the 1800's, the game was played in the cotton fields and later spread
up the Mississippi. The usual locations for Dice games would be steamboats, river wharf's, docks
and saloons. Throughout this period the game was largely reinvented into the modern 'Bank Craps'.
Dice today, may still be heard to be called 'African Dominoes' and of course the history of dice
goes way back. When Caesar took his army across the Rubicon, against the wishes of the Roman
Senate, he used the words of a dice player "Iacta alea est" the die is cast. "
The place of origin suggests origin of phrase 'snake eyes' .
