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Dice and dice games goes back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French relocated down south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and all over the country. Most consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he developed the spots for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.