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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps come about from the old English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s soldiers gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the losing toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. A great many consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He put in place the Do not Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwards, he invented the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.