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Dice and dice games goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French relocated south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. Many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the current craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he developed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
