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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French relocated down south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was gotten from the term for the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. Most acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he designed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.