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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century 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 said to have been invented by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the 12th century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard through a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when displaced by the British, the French relocated down south and found safety in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was gotten from the name of the bad luck throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the country. Many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He appended the Do not Pass line so gamblers can wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he established the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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