Craps

The ancient and hallowed game of craps is played everywhere from city back alleys to the posh casinos. Craps offers a wide variety of bets on its various aspects, but at the core of it all it’s relatively simple: The shooter rolls a pair of dice, and if they come up with a total of seven or eleven, he wins; if they come up two or three or twelve, he loses; if they come up any other total (four, five, six, eight, nine or ten), then that number becomes his “point,” and he continues rolling the dice until he either equals that point number and wins or rolls a seven and loses. The probability mathematics of craps is fairly straightforward to work out and it shows that the shooter wins about 49.29% of the time.