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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but modern craps is approximately 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for sure the birth of the game, but Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when driven away by the British, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which is gotten from the term for the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi riverboats and throughout the nation. Many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he created the spots for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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