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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is believed to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It's presumed that Sir William's soldiers played Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the castle'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 at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It's believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was gotten from the name of the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."

From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn designed the current craps layout. He created the Don't Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he created the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.