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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is only about 100 years old. Modern craps formed from the old English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French relocated down south and found sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi river boats and all over the nation. A few consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn created the current craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.