Color Game: Three Dice, Six Colours and a Paytable to Read First

Noted here for every fiesta season and every screen version alike: how the Color Game turns three dice into a payout, and what a colour bet costs across many rolls. It began on Philippine fairgrounds and now runs as software in many casino lobbies. Three dice, six colours on their faces, one bet per colour: that is the whole game. The rules below apply to the common paytable, and any title that prints something different is governed by what it prints.

Color game rules

1. Choose one or more colours and place a stake on each.
2. Three dice are thrown, each showing one of six colours.
3. If your colour shows on one die, you win at 1 to 1.
4. If it shows on two dice, you win at 2 to 1.
5. If it shows on all three, you win at 3 to 1.
6. If it does not appear, the stake is lost.

You are betting on how many dice match, not on a single throw. That is why one colour can pay twice or three times even though your stake only went down once.

What a colour bet costs

Each die has six faces, so three of them make 216 equally likely results. Each row below counts how many of them produce each result, for any one colour.

Add it up: (75 x 100) + (15 x 200) + (1 x 300) - (125 x 100) = -₱1,700 across 216 rolls, about ₱7.87 lost per ₱100 stake on average. The same counts drive one family of bets in a sicbo three-dice table, and the house edge ranking shows how that cost compares with other bets. Treat ₱7.87 as a long-run average rather than a prediction for tonight.

How screen versions differ from the fairground game

Payouts and extras are the two things to check when moving from one version to another.

1. Paytable. Some titles change what a double or triple pays, which moves the whole cost, so the sum above must be redone with the printed numbers.
2. Bonus features. A random multiplier or extra bet is added on top of the dice in some versions. It changes both the cost and the pace.
3. The dice. A studio game films real dice; a software title draws them from a random number generator. Each title’s info panel states which it is.

Finding one on the lobby is a matter of browsing. The desktop menu’s Card Games section names JILI, R88, KM, TP, FTG, V8 and 1BET, and the lobby’s list gave JILI’s card shelf 98 titles. Open each candidate’s info panel before you stake, because two games sharing a name can carry different payouts.

Common Color Game mistakes

1. Problem: betting every colour at once. Fix: full coverage returns part of your stake on most rolls while the cost per peso stays the same, so you lose it more slowly and on a larger total.
2. Problem: doubling after each loss. Fix: a stake that doubles quickly runs into a table limit or an empty balance, so keep one stake per session.
3. Problem: reading the last ten rolls as a pattern. Fix: dice carry no memory, and past colours have no effect on the next throw.

The live casino list has the other table formats. An account belongs to PH365’s own site, reached through its casino login route; the Join 76JL buttons around this page are for 76JL, which is another casino.