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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about 100 years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, however Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed down south and found sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A few consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn developed the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.