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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins played Hazard through a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved south and located refuge in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning 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 great many acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.