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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps developed from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the fortress’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French relocated south and found sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their best-loved game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the country. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.