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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about 100 years old. Current craps formed from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when banished by the English, the French headed down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. Most acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. Later, he designed the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.