Online Casino Games Guide

Gambling has centuries-old history, as people have always been trying to find easy ways to earn fast bucks at little effort. First gambling games appeared approximately in 18-16 centuries BC. The prototypes of the dice, made from the elephant’s tusk or animals’ bones, found by the historians, prove that the spirit of competition, inherent to all human beings, had led to the advent of games even before an advanced civilization appeared. So the image of the dice we use to play modern casino games dates back to the ancient times.

Ancient people played not only dice, but also a variety of draughts. Later on, with the development of the human brain, more complicated games appeared, for example mah-jongg, a Chinese logic game, which is known from the 2nd century BC. Nowadays the online casino game bearing the same name and retaining the basic rules of the traditional game “Mah-jongg” exists and enjoys high popularity in many online casinos.

The next step in games evolution was card games, which are said to have appeared in China and are supposed to date back to the 12th century AC. Most historians consider the Tarot cards to be the prototype of the modern deck of cards, used in casino card games both at brick-and-mortar and online casinos.

Gambling has always enjoyed unsurpassable popularity, but at the same time, there have always been laws, forbidding gambling games, as the authorities have always understood the danger that such games carry. In the 13th century a law prohibiting any card games appeared in France, as card games became immensely popular there at that time and swamped many families. A great variety of the modern casino games originate from France.

Such online casino games as Blackjack, Poker and other casino games, so popular at modern online casinos, came into existence in the 19th century in the USA. Since then, the number of gambling games has constantly been increasing, despite the desperate attempts of the American government to stop the victorious march of gambling round the country.

The first legal casino was founded in Baden, Switzerland at the end of the 18th century. I suppose that at that time no one could imagine how popular casinos would become and that hundreds of casino games would come into existence, to say nothing of the online casinos and online casino games. But the actual prosperity of casinos started in the middle of the 20th century with the advent of the first legal casino in the USA – the El Rancho Vegas Hotel-Casino, which laid foundation to the creation of the gambling paradise of Las Vegas.