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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 formed from the ancient Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s believed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French headed down south and located sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was acquired from the name of the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. Most acknowledge the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.