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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about a century old. Modern craps developed from the old Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the birth of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a blockade on the fortress 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 displaced by the British, the French moved south and found safety in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the losing 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 nation. A few consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. Later, he created the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.