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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.

Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French headed down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which was derived from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. A good many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he created the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.