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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard amid a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French relocated down south and discovered safety in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the bad luck throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. Most consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Later, he created the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
