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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps formed from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten 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 relocated south and found safety in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the bad luck throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the nation. Most acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.