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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps formed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was gotten 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 riverboats and throughout the country. A few think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.