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Dice and dice games date all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but modern craps is approximately a century old. Current craps come about from the 12th Century Anglo game called Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been made up by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s soldiers enjoyed Hazard during a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French moved south and found safety in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is derived from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi river boats and throughout the country. Most consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the creator of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps layout. He created the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to not win. Later, he designed the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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