Sicbo: 216 Outcomes From Three Dice, Every Bet Ranked by Cost

For as long as dice have six sides, this page stands: how sicbo pays and which bets cost the least. Three dice are shaken in a cage or dealt by a machine, and you bet on the totals or combinations they show. The layout looks crowded, with dozens of squares, but it reduces to a small number of bet families. Payouts for some of them change from room to room, so the costs below use the commonly printed figures and name them.

How sicbo is played

1. Bets go on the layout inside the countdown.
2. Three dice are thrown, and the 216 possible combinations are all equally likely.
3. Each bet on the layout settles by what those dice show; several can win at once.
4. Winning stakes are paid, and the next round opens.

Totals run from 3 to 18. The middle of the range is common and the extremes are rare, which is why the totals bets carry such different payouts.

Sicbo bets, odds and cost

Big and Small are the place to sit: they lose only 6 outcomes more than they win, across the 216. Read the sum this way: 105 wins and 111 losses at even money gives -6 of 216, which is 2.78%. A specific triple pays 180 to 1 on a 1-in-216 chance, and that 16.20% is why a large payout is not a cheap one.

Bets where the payout changes the price

Rooms print their own paytables, and a small change can move a bet’s cost a long way.

1. Any triple. At 30 to 1 it costs 13.89%. At 24 to 1 the cost climbs to about 30.6%, so check the figure before betting.
2. Single number. The 1, 2 and 3 to 1 ladder gives 7.87%. Tables paying 12 to 1 on three matching dice cost less, so note which ladder the room prints.
3. Totals. Each total, from 4 to 17, carries its own payout on the layout; the sum for any one of them is outcomes times payout, set against 216.

Studios can also add random multipliers, which fund themselves by lowering other payouts. Treat any such room as a different game and read its panel before staking.

Common sicbo mistakes

1. Problem: reading the result history as a trend. Fix: dice carry nothing forward, so a run of Big predicts nothing about the next throw.
2. Problem: covering Big and Small together for safety. Fix: one wins and one loses on most rolls, and a triple takes both, so the cost simply repeats.
3. Problem: chasing a triple because it has not landed for a while. Fix: its chance stays the same on every roll, at 6 in 216 for any triple.

The color game on three dice uses the same dice maths in a simpler form, and the house edge list for live bets ranks sicbo beside the card tables. The live casino overview holds the rest. To play on the lobby this site covers, sign in through its own site, as the casino login entry explains; the Join 76JL buttons here belong to 76JL, a separate casino.