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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the old English game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the origin of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard during a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the English, the French headed south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the country. A good many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so players could bet on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.