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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps developed from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French moved south and discovered refuge in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the current craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
