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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Current craps formed from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard during a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.

Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he developed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.