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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Modern craps evolved from the old English game called Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights wagered on Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French headed down south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the nation. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.