Be cunning, play cunning, and master craps the proper way!

Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard through a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.

Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French moved south and discovered sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was gotten from the term for the losing toss of two 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 builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the current craps setup. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he designed the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.