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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Current craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the bad luck throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and across the country. A few consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.