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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Current craps developed from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the British, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was derived from the name of the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the country. A good many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he designed the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.

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