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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth 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 knights bet on Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was gotten from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. A good many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players can bet on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.