Hazard (game)
Hazard is an Old English game played with two dice; it was mentioned in Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the 14th century.
Despite its complicated rules, hazard was very popular in the 17th and 18th centuries and was often played for money. At Crockford's Club in London, hazard was especially popular. In the 19th century, the game craps developed from hazard through a simplification of the rules. Craps is now very popular in North America but neither game remains popular amongst the rest of the world.
Read more about Hazard (game): Rules, Betting, Probability of Winning, Etymology of The Name, Miscellaneous
Famous quotes containing the word hazard:
“I, who am king of the matter I treat, and who owe an accounting for it to no one, do not for all that believe myself in all I write. I often hazard sallies of my mind which I mistrust.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)