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Dice and dice games goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Current craps come about from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard during a blockade on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was derived from the citadel’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when exiled by the British, the French relocated south and located refuge in southern Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they brought their best-loved game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the title to craps, which is acquired from the name of the non-winning throw of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and across the nation. A good many acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the modern craps setup. He appended the Do not Pass line so players can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he invented the spaces for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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