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Dice and dice games goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about a century old. Modern craps evolved from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the birth of the game, although Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s presumed that Sir William’s soldiers bet on Hazard through a blockade on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French relocated south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing toss of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the creator of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He added the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. Later, he developed the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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