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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen bet on Hazard amid a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the English, the French headed down south and found refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the country. A few consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.