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Dice and dice games goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century English game called Hazard. No one absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, however Hazard is said to have been created by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s supposed that Sir William’s knights played Hazard through a siege on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when exiled by the British, the French relocated south and located safety in the south of Louisiana where they eventually became Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was acquired from the name of the non-winning toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and across the nation. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn designed the current craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players can wager on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he invented the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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