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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the 12th Century English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when banished by the English, the French moved south and located refuge in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and all over the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn created the modern craps setup. He added the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he invented the spaces for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
