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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about one hundred years old. Modern craps developed from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French relocated south and found safety in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they departed 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 altered the title to craps, which was gotten from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and across the country. Many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.