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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps formed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the birth 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 horsemen bet on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was gotten from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the country. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.