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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Current craps evolved from the old English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard during a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French headed down south and discovered refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was acquired from the name of the losing throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. A good many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He appended the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.