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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Current craps come about from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French headed down south and located sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which was derived from the name of the non-winning throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A good many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn built the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.