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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the English, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.