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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard during a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French headed down south and discovered sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he established the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.