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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps evolved from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s horsemen played Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French headed down south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he created the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
