Sic bo online: three dice, 216 outcomes, and a paytable that is local

You place chips on named boxes. The dice are shaken. Every bet on that roll wins or loses immediately. Nothing carries to the next shake. That is the difference from craps, where some bets need a sequence of rolls. History of dice is background, not a paytable.

The totals run from 3 to 18. Small and Big skip the triples inside their ranges, so three 2s is not a Small winner even though 6 is between 4 and 10. The same is true of three 5s and Big. Odd and Even, where offered, also lose on triples in the published rules.

Wikipedia's comparison table gives Big and Small a 48.61% chance and a 1 to 1 payoff in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Austria, and Macau, which it lists as a 2.78% house edge. Two-die combinations of two different numbers are also listed at 6 to 1 and 2.78% in those same columns, except that Macau prints both a 5 to 1 price and a 6 to 1 price.

The rest of the layout is where the edge jumps. On that UK column a specific triple pays 180 to 1 with a 16.2% house edge, and any triple pays 30 to 1 with a 13.89% house edge. Macau's specific triple is listed at 150 to 1, which is a worse price. Austria's is listed at 190 to 1. Those three numbers are enough to show why "the" sic bo odds do not exist.

Use the table as a map of the published comparison, then throw it out if your rules screen disagrees. House edge is how to read a payoff against a probability. Expected value is the same idea in currency.

For a bet-by-bet comparison, read Sic Bo strategy and house edges. Compare the payoff printed on your screen with the probability of that outcome. A staking progression cannot remove the house edge, and a lower-edge bet can still lose. The rules and price of each box matter more than a system's name.

The mathematics of three fair dice do not change because the shake is animated. The contract can. An online game can delete Small, change a triple payoff, or add a side bet that was never on a Macau felt. The rules page of that game is the paytable. A pretty dice cup is not.

If the game does not show the payoff for a box, do not bet that box. This page will not fill the blank. A "lower edge" claim is only true for the bets whose price you have checked. Big and Small earn that description on the published 1 to 1 tables above. They do not earn it by the name alone.

Sic bo settles every few seconds. That is a lot of edges in an hour if you keep every box lit. The lower-edge bets are still negative. They are only lower than the triple boxes beside them.

Adults only. Responsible gambling is the limit that matters when the shake button is the whole interface. PVPspinArena does not offer sic bo. Its dice, where it has them, are other games, described in the terms. More tables live under casino games. Casino war is a card game with a different tie rule. Do not mix the two paytables.