Mar 082026
Be cunning, play clever, and master craps the correct way!
Games that use dice and the dice themselves date all the way back to the Crusades, but modern craps is just about 100 years old. Modern craps evolved from the 12th Century Anglo game called 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, sometime in the twelfth century. It is theorized that Sir William’s paladins bet on Hazard during a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The title Hazard was gotten from the citadel’s name.
Early French colonizers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 18th century, when driven away by the English, the French moved down south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they were driven out of Acadia, they took their favored game, Hazard, along. The Cajuns modernized the game and made it fair mathematically. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the name to craps, which was derived from the term for the bad luck toss of two in the game of Hazard, referred to as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game extended to the Mississippi barges and across the country. A good many think the dice maker John H. Winn as the father of current craps. In 1907, Winn assembled the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so players can wager on the dice to not win. Afterwords, he designed the boxes for Place bets and added the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.
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