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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 approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French moved down south and discovered sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he created the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.