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Dice and dice games date back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the old English game referred to as Hazard. No one absolutely knows the beginnings of the game, but Hazard is said to have been discovered by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, around the twelfth century. It is believed that Sir William’s paladins wagered on Hazard amid a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was acquired from the castle’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Canada. In the 1700s, when expelled by the British, the French relocated down south and settled in the south of Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they fled Acadia, they took their preferred game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which is acquired from the term for the bad luck toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi riverboats and all over the nation. A great many think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In the early 1900s, Winn developed the current craps setup. He added the Do not Pass line so players could wager on the dice to lose. At another time, he invented the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.