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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Current craps come about from the ancient English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French headed down south and discovered safety in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A few acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.