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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Current craps developed from the ancient English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s horsemen enjoyed Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French moved south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the country. A great many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the current craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.