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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is believed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French moved down south and discovered refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it fair mathematically. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A few acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he established the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.