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Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps come about from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, however Hazard is said to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French moved south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was gotten from the term for the bad luck throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A great many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.