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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately one hundred years old. Current craps formed from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s knights bet on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was derived from the fortification’s name.
Early French colonists imported the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French relocated down south and located refuge in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the losing throw of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi barges and throughout the nation. A few think the dice builder John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to lose. Later, he invented the boxes for Place wagers and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
