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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about a century old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, however Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.

Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French moved south and settled in southern Louisiana where they a while later became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he invented the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.