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Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about a century old. Current craps developed from the ancient English game referred to as Hazard. Nobody absolutely knows the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is believed to have been created by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is presumed that Sir William’s soldiers wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the citadel Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers brought the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when exiled by the English, the French moved down south and found safety in southern Louisiana where they a while later became known as Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns simplified the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns adjusted the name to craps, which was acquired from the term for the non-winning throw of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game migrated to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. Most think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he established the boxes for Place wagers and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.