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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he developed the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.