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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is only about 100 years old. Current craps evolved from the old Anglo game called Hazard. No one knows for sure the ancestry of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s soldiers played Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the castle’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 18th century, when displaced by the English, the French relocated down south and found sanctuary in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the nation. A great many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He appended the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to lose. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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