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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps formed from the ancient English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been discovered by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, sometime in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s horsemen gambled on Hazard amid a siege on the fortress Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Nova Scotia. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French moved down south and found safety in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their favorite game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which is derived from the name of the losing throw of two in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi scows and throughout the nation. A great many consider the dice maker John H. Winn as the founder of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn built the current craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to not win. At another time, he invented the spaces for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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