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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. Current craps developed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the beginnings of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French moved down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the country. Many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
