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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is theorized that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard during a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.

Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French headed down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and throughout the nation. A few consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he created the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.