Craps is a dice game played with a pair of six-sided dice, in which players bet on the outcome of a roll or series of rolls made by a single shooter. The most common bet, the pass line, wins or loses based on the shooter's first roll and any subsequent roll of the same total before a seven appears. The game developed in the United States, most directly in the New Orleans area in the early nineteenth century, from the older English dice game of hazard, and it became a standard fixture of American casino floors over the twentieth century.
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Originating RegionUnited States, developed from the English game of Hazard 1 Game TypeDice game, casino and street 1 Governing BodyNo governing body; casino craps is regulated individually by each jurisdiction's gaming authority, and street craps is played informally with no federation. 1 Sport
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Cee-lo, Games Why this is disputed. The origin is unclear; one author asserts a betting system borrowed from craps.
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1. Wikipedia, Craps
WikipediaLead section, first sentence
Craps is a dice game in which players bet on the outcomes of the roll of a pair of dice.
History section, third paragraph
According to some accounts, Hazard was brought from London to New Orleans in approximately 1805 by the returning Bernard Xavier Philippe de Marigny de Mandeville, the young gambler and scion of a family of wealthy landowners in colonial Louisiana.
Lead section, second sentence
Players can wager money against each other (playing "street craps") or against a bank ("casino craps").
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Associated With: Cee-lo, Origins and historyQuote, Associated With: Cee-lo, Origins and history
Gil Jacobs instead asserts the game is derived from passe-dix, with a betting system borrowed from craps.
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