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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard amid a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French relocated down south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and all over the nation. A good many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He created the Do not Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.