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Dice and dice games goes all the way back to the Middle Eastern Crusades, but current craps is approximately a century old. Modern craps formed from the old English game called Hazard. Nobody knows for certain the origin of the game, but Hazard is said to have been made up by the Anglo, Sir William of Tyre, in the 12th century. It is supposed that Sir William’s knights gambled on Hazard through a siege on the castle Hazarth in 1125 AD. The name Hazard was acquired from the fortress’s name.
Early French settlers imported the game Hazard to Acadia. In the 1700s, when driven away by the English, the French relocated south and settled in southern Louisiana where they after a while became Cajuns. When they departed Acadia, they took their favorite game, Hazard, with them. The Cajuns broke down the game and made it mathematically fair. It’s believed that the Cajuns changed the title to craps, which was acquired from the term for the non-winning toss of 2 in the game of Hazard, recognized as "crabs."
From Louisiana, the game moved to the Mississippi scows and all over the nation. A few acknowledge the dice builder John H. Winn as the father of modern craps. In 1907, Winn designed the modern craps setup. He created the Don’t Pass line so gamblers can bet on the dice to not win. Later, he created the spaces for Place bets and put in place the Big 6, Big 8, and Hardways.