Craps: the casino dice game at the Queen of Hearts' table

About Craps

This is the bank craps you find in casinos, played by New Jersey rules and set up at the Queen of Hearts' table. The layout has the bets you'd see at a real casino table: Pass Line and Don't Pass, Come and Don't Come, odds, the place numbers, the Field, the hardways and the one-roll bets. On the come-out roll, 7 or 11 wins and 2, 3 or 12 loses; any other number becomes the point, and from then on the point has to roll again before a 7. You start with $2,000 in play money and bet with $5, $25, $100 and $500 chips; the table minimum is $5.00, each bet goes up to $500, and the table offers 3-4-5x odds. The dice really roll: the force, the spin and every bounce off the pyramid wall decide how they come to rest, and the number is the face that ends up on top. Nothing picks the result. The camera chases the dice like a TV broadcast and, when they stop, shows each one up close. Every payout is exact, down to the cent, and your balance always shows two decimal places. When your balance no longer covers the table minimum, the night is over; CASH OUT ends the night whenever you want and posts your balance to the TOP 5 leaderboard. It's a demo-mode game made purely for entertainment: none of the amounts are real, and every win or loss is fictional.

In Selminha's words

“Craps is the liveliest table in the casino: everyone rooting for the same roll, the dice flying all the way to the back wall. I wanted that whole moment on screen, no shortcuts: the full layout, with the bets a real casino offers, red dice tumbling in 3D and bouncing off the rubber pyramids, and the camera chasing them like a TV broadcast. The dice aren't rigged: each roll is played out in physics, and the number is the face that ends up on top. And for anyone who has never played, the table tells you what each bet pays the moment your chip lands, and HOW TO PLAY explains it all in a few lines.”

How to play Craps and what each bet pays

1. Pick a chip at the bottom — $5, $25, $100 or $500 — and tap a betting area on the layout to bet there. Every tap adds one more chip.
2. To roll, bet the PASS LINE (or DON'T PASS) and tap ROLL. On the come-out roll, 7 or 11 wins and 2, 3 or 12 loses.
3. Any other number becomes the POINT, and the puck flips to ON and marks it. Now the point has to roll again before a 7.
4. Once a point is set, tap your Pass Line chip to put ODDS next to it: they pay true odds, with no house edge.
5. What each bet pays shows up when your chip lands. UNDO takes back the last chip, CLEAR removes every bet you're allowed to take down, and REBET puts your bets from the last roll back on the table.
6. The "?" at the top opens HOW TO PLAY, with every bet explained. CASH OUT ends the night and posts your balance to the TOP 5 leaderboard.

Full rules for Craps

A demo-mode game

Just for fun

Craps is a demo-mode game made purely for entertainment. None of the amounts are real: the dollars are play money, and every win or loss is fictional. You never bet or win real money here.

The bets and what they pay

Pass Line — 1 to 1

On the come-out roll, it wins on 7 or 11 and loses on 2, 3 or 12. Once a point is set, it wins if the point rolls again before a 7.

Don't Pass — 1 to 1

The opposite: on the come-out roll, it wins on 2 or 3, loses on 7 or 11, and 12 is a push. Once a point is set, it wins if a 7 comes up before the point.

Odds — no house edge

Placed next to your Pass Line bet once a point is set, they pay true odds: 2 to 1 on the 4 and 10, 3 to 2 on the 5 and 9, 6 to 5 on the 6 and 8. Up to 3x your line bet on the 4 and 10, 4x on the 5 and 9, and 5x on the 6 and 8; lay odds on Don't Pass go up to 6x.

Come and Don't Come — 1 to 1

They work like the Pass Line and Don't Pass, but you can only make them once a point is set, and they start on the next roll: if that roll is a point number, it becomes their own point.

The numbers up top (place bets)

They win if their number rolls before a 7: 9 to 5 on the 4 and 10, 7 to 5 on the 5 and 9, 7 to 6 on the 6 and 8. They stay on the table after a win and are off on the come-out roll.

Field — one roll only

A bet that the next roll will be a 2, 3, 4, 9, 10, 11 or 12: a 3, 4, 9, 10 or 11 pays 1 to 1, a 2 or 12 pays 2 to 1, and a 5, 6, 7 or 8 loses.

Hardways and one-roll bets

Hardways win if their number comes up as a pair before a 7 or before it rolls the easy way: 9 to 1 on the 6 and 8, 7 to 1 on the 4 and 10. On a single roll: Any Seven, 4 to 1; Any Craps, 7 to 1; 2 or 12, 30 to 1; 3 or 11, 15 to 1.

The rules at this table

New Jersey rules

The game follows New Jersey's bank craps regulations, checked against Pennsylvania's, with 3-4-5x odds, the most common setup in casinos.

Minimum and maximum

The table minimum is $5.00 on line bets and the Field, and each bet goes up to $500. Odds have their own limit.

Paid to the cent

Every bet is accepted and paid exactly, down to the cent: $55 on the 6, which pays 7 to 6, wins $64.17. Your balance always shows two decimal places.

No roll

If a die lands tilted, its top face is the one that counts. If one die comes to rest on top of the other, the roll doesn't count and the dice are thrown again, just as a casino dealer would call it.

Controls on phone and computer

Computer

Tap or click the chips and the layout to bet · SPACE rolls the dice · 1 to 4 pick a chip · ⌫ undoes the last chip · ESC pauses · M turns the sound on and off · on a phone, two fingers zoom in on the table

Touch

Phone upright and full screen: the layout stands upright, with the chips and buttons at the bottom, near your thumb, and two fingers zoom in on the table for a close look at any betting area. On a tablet the table adapts to the way you hold it and never asks you to rotate; on a computer it's played in landscape mode.

Dice that really roll

Nobody picks the number

Every roll is played out in physics: the force, the spin and every bounce off the pyramid wall decide how the dice come to rest. Each die's number is the face that ends up on top.

Tested over thousands of rolls

The totals come up as often as they do with real dice: 7 is the most common total, and 2 and 12 are the rarest.

Your night at the table

Balance

You start with $2,000 in play money. The tray shows your BALANCE and TOTAL BET, and after each roll a banner shows the dice and what that roll won or lost.

CASH OUT

Ends the night and posts your balance to the site's TOP 5 leaderboard. When your balance no longer covers the table minimum, the night ends automatically.