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Welcome to the Casino!
Casinos are for gambling and nothing else. When you walk into a casino all you hear are bells going off and people shouting that they have won. Do you get a thrill when you hear the slot machines going off? How about when you play craps and roulette and your number comes out? Question: How do you find your way to the craps table? Answer: Just follow the noise!
Gambling with the Devil: Roulette
Did you know that Roulette is, or was sometimes referred to as Satan’s Game?
The reason? All the numbers on the roulette wheel, 1 to 36, when added together total 666 and 666 is supposedly Satan’s number.
Come over and we’ll roll the bones
The slang expression “rolling the bones” has an ancient origin that is quite literal. The first dice were carved from bones. In the age of the great Roman Empire it was not unusual for dice to be fashioned from sheep's knuckles.
Dice have been made from wood, clay, stone, peach pits, animal horns, teeth, ivory, bronze, porcelain, even jewels. The oldest known dice with regular sides were found in northern Iraq. They are made of baked clay and date to about 3,000 B.C.
Does this Machine pay in Real Money or Gum?
The bar symbol used on modern slot machines is derived from a Bell Fruit Gum logo. The gum was dispensed in slots designed by Herbert Mills in Chicago in 1910, and the other fruit symbols on slots were derived from the gum flavors.
What Cards are you Holding?
The kings in decks of playing cards represent real leaders and conquerors from history, although not all had the title of king. The deck we use today is based on cards designed in 15th-century France.
- The king of spades represents the Biblical King David,
- The king of clubs represents Alexander the Great,
- The king of hearts represents Charlemagne and
- The king of diamonds represents Julius Caesar.
The four suits represent civilizations that have influenced our culture.
- Spades represent the Middle East of Biblical times,
- Clubs represent Greece,
- Diamonds represent the Roman Empire, and
- Hearts represent the Holy Roman Empire.
The Evolution of Craps
Even before the Middle Ages the Arabs played a game using little numbered cubes, called az-zahr, the die. The game drifted across the Mediterranean to France, where it was played and called Hasard which is what az-zahr sounded like to the French. Some time before 1500 AD it jumped the English Channel to England where it was given the English spelling of the same word, Hazard.
The roll of lowest value in that game was called crabs. “You rolled crabs!!!”
The French, trying to be friendly, adopted that term from the English, but they spelled it the French way as crabes. In the early 1700s, the game crossed the Atlantic to the French colony of Acadia.
In 1755, the French lost their colony, Acadia, to the English who promptly renamed it Nova Scotia and threw out the French-speaking Acadians, who wandered around for some years and finally relocated in Louisiana, where they were called, as they still are, Cajuns, and developed a language called Louisiana French. They continued to play their old dice game, but they dropped the title of Hasard and called the game simply Crebs or Creps, which was the Louisiana French spelling of the French Crabes.
By 1843, the Cajun word came into American English as Craps. People were apparently careful for a while not to omit the final "s" for fear of confusion with a vulgarism having a totally different meaning and which was also derived from French.
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