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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French headed down south and located sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the country. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players can 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.