Casino Interesting Facts

- Casino means in Italian little house or summerhouse.
- Roulette is the French word for small wheel.
- Hazard means in Arabic a knucklebones.
- The first legal casino was built in Baden in 1765. According to other sources it could be in 1638 in an Italian city Venice.
- The first casino in America was opened in 1822 and it was called Brown’s Saloon.
- The first state which offered legal casino games was Nevada in 1931.
- Dice were originally made from ankles bones of animals. They could also be made from minerals such as marble, rock crystal, onyx, amber, agate and porcelain.
- A quote Alea iacta est (“The dice have been cast”) said by Julius Caesar (borrowed from a writer called Manender) is one of the most famous phrase around the globe.

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