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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date back to the Crusades, but current craps is only about one hundred years old. Modern craps come about from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody knows for sure the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s paladins gambled on Hazard amid a blockade on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonists brought the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when banished by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they at a later time became known as Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they brought their preferred game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns streamlined the game and made it fair mathematically. It is said that the Cajuns adjusted the title to craps, which was gotten from the term for the losing toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and throughout the country. Most consider the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn developed the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could bet on the dice to not win. Later, he established the spots for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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