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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Current craps evolved from the old Anglo game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French headed down south and found sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A few acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. At another time, he created the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.