Craps have been around for many decades. It is a simplified version of the game Hazard. This was introduced by Bernard de Mandeville in 1813 in New Orleans. Craps derives from the word Crab and means as much as crab. One chose this term because it in 16. Century a designation for one doublet was. To craps to what it is today, it took a time. Today it is not indispensable.