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Games that use dice and the dice themselves goes back to the Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Current craps come about from the old Anglo game referred to as Hazard. No one knows for certain the ancestry of the game, although Hazard is said to have been invented by the Englishman, Sir William of Tyre, in the twelfth century. It’s theorized that Sir William’s paladins enjoyed Hazard through a blockade on the fortification Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was gotten from the fortress’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when expelled by the English, the French headed down south and found sanctuary in southern Louisiana where they after a while became known as Cajuns. When they left Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it more mathematically fair. It is said that the Cajuns altered the name to craps, which is gotten from the term for the bad luck toss of snake-eyes in the game of Hazard, known as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi river boats and across the nation. Most think the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps layout. He put in place the Don’t Pass line so players can bet on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.