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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps developed from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and throughout the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he developed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.