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- It is played with a pair of dice in which players bet on dice rolls. When one is playing Craps, money is then wagered against either the casino or the other players in the game. When someone plays against the other players outside of a casino setting, it is called street craps.
- Street Dice is a dice game that debuted at the Downtown Grand casino in Las Vegas on May 16, 2014. It could loosely be described as a simplified version of craps, with just two bets and a maximum of four rolls to resolve a bet.
- This is a simple gambling game, played with five dice. A popular street game played makeshift in alleyways or living rooms. Play: Each player antes one betting unit (usually a dollar, pound, euro, etc) into the pot and they then take it in turn throwing the dice.
Dice games are criminally under-appreciated. Shooting dice, also known as street craps, is a slightly simplified version of traditional Casino Craps, and is a classic hustle. You can also learn to play Mexican drinking dice, Farkle, and other games that only require you to know a few rules and get a few dice in a cup. How to play the classic game of street dice quick and easy known in the casino as craps also known as 7 11 dice. This will be your favorite dice game.
20Oct
Posted by Yehuda Berlinger as Classic Board Games, Modern Board Games
From which I exclude board games that rely primarily on dice, such as Backgammon, other race games, and all roll and move games.
Beetle (aka Cooties)
Each player rolls a die and draws a certain part of a bug, depending on the die roll. Certain parts must be drawn before others may be drawn. The first to complete his bug wins.
Bunco
Roll three dice, scoring the result. No decisions. Widely popular among suburban women in the US.
Chō-han (aka Chō-Han Bakuchi)
Very simple Japanese dice game. Six dice are rolled and the results kept secret. Players bet on whether the sum on the dice is odd or even.
Farkle (aka Zonk, Zilch, 10000, Wimp Out, Greed, Squelch)
A “push your luck” game, and the inspiration for Can’t Stop and other, similar proprietary games.
Roll six dice, banking any that can score (generally any 1, 5, or three of a kind). You can end you turn and score what you have banked, or re-roll the non-banked dice. If you ever roll dice and can’t bank any of them, you lose everything you have banked and pass your turn.
Hazard (aka Craps)
Craps is a specific variant of Hazard.
Pick a number from 5 to 9 and try to roll it (in Craps, the number is 7). If you roll the number you win. If you roll 2, 3, 11, or 12, you may lose, depending on which number you picked. Otherwise, try to roll the same number you just rolled again, before rolling the number that you originally picked.
LCR
A proprietary game only 17 years old from George and Company LLC.
Three dice have sides with L (left), R (right), and C (center), and three blank faces. Roll the dice, passing chips in the direction indicated; center means the center pot. The last player with chips left wins (and, if playing for money, takes all the chips in the center pot).
Its popularity stems from the fact that even after you have no chips remaining, you may still win if a player to your left or right passes you one before the game ends.
Liar’s Dice (aka Bluff, Dudo, Cachito, Perudo, Mexicali, Mexican)
The game of betting on the sum rolled.
Each player rolls a number of dice, looks at his own, and covers them. Players then bet, in turn, on how many dice have how high a face value, with each player having to either call or up the values on his turn. At a call, the calling player wins if the previous player was incorrect; otherwise, the previous player wins.
Mexico
Not to be confused with the above Mexican.
All players roll the dice, with the lowest rolling player tossing the stakes into the pot. Continue until all but one player is eliminated. That player takes the pot. Tips on roulette betting.
Pig (aka Pass the Pig)
A simpler push your luck game than Farkle. Roll a single die, banking your roll each time. Pass the die and score what you have banked whenever you want. If you roll a 1, you lose what you have banked and pass the die.
Poker Dice
These special dice have faces of 9 through A. Roll the dice, re-rolling any dice up to two times. Player with the highest poker hand wins.
Poker dice are often used to play Klondike, which is not related to the card game of the same name. The dealer and players roll, with the players winning if they beat the dealer’s hand.
Sic bo (aka hi lo, Grand Hazard, Chuck-a-luck)
Grand Hazard is not related to Hazard.
Players bet on the outcome of the dice (similar to Roulette), with payouts according to the chances of the roll. What does payout mean.
Shut the Box
This game often uses a wooden contraption to keep score.
Player roll two dice, marking off any combination of numbers 2-9 (or 10) that add up to the total rolled on the dice. Continue rolling until you cannot mark any unmarked numbers for a given roll. End your turn and score the numbers marked.
Yahtzee (aka Yacht, Balut, Kismet)
Each player has a grid of dice values, each box of which scores a certain number of points. Roll the dice, re-rolling any dice up to two times. Score any box that you want to which the dice correspond, but that you have not already scored. If you cannot match your roll to any box, score a 0 in any unscored box of you choice. The game ends after all boxes are filled, with the highest total score winning.
When the dice bounce off the wall and land on the ground you know something will happen. Just not what. Are you going to win, are you going to get beat up or is a grocery bagger in drag going to start waving a gun? When you study street-dice history, you’ll realize these are all possible outcomes.
There’s no place where street-dice games are described better than in hip hop. So with a little help from some of the finest MCs ever we’re going to take a deeper look at the game. U-God teaches you the rules, Kool G Rap tells you how to play the game and Big L warns you about rolling with the wrong crowd in the wrong place at the wrong time.
What is “Cee-Lo ?”
According to U-God from the Wu-Tang Clan, the back-alley dice game Cee-Lo originates from New York. Other less trustworthy sources, such as Wikipedia, claim that the game was born in China. It’s supposed to be called Sì-Wŭ-Liù meaning 'four-five-six.' But what do they know? Staten Island is Shaolin, a sword fight is like a game of chess and Cee-Lo is from NYC. I choose to go with U-God on that one. Here’s a brief summary of the rules directly from the source.
No flash? Watch here.
How to Win in Cee-Lo
In Cee-Lo, you roll three dice up against a wall and the best roll is 4, 5, 6 followed by trips. If you get a pair, you compare the “kicker” (the value of the pair is irrelevant.) Six is best and ace (1) is worst. And like U-God said, “aces will send you home broke.”
Cee-Lo Strategy
Is there a winning Cee Lo strategy? Well, dice control might be an option for some of the more adept. The aim is to throw the dice so they’re more likely to land on certain numbers. Its’ been proven this can be done on clean, felted craps tables, but it’s much harder on a gravel sidewalk. Another option would be to use “loaded” dice, meaning dice weighted to end up a certain way, but that’s cheating and might get you into trouble. The best strategy option is to simply roll like Kool G Rap. Just throw 4-5-6 all the time and you’ll win.
Street Craps
There’s also a street version of regular casino craps. In this game, the shooter rolls two dice and players can bet on either pass or don’t pass. If the shooter, who is required to bet, rolls 7 or 11, he made the pass and bets are matched. If the shooter rolls 2, 3 or 12, don’t pass bets are paid. Any other number becomes the “point” and the shooter carries on rolling until the point comes up, which completes the pass bets, or 7, which completes don’t pass. Below you can see a video describing the rules. But the big question is: Did this guy actually build his own back alley in his garage? He just might be the antithesis of U-God
Alley-Dice Anecdotes
Attempted Murder by Man in Drag
Dice games are known to stir up emotions and it’s not unusual that arguments escalate into violence. This one, however, must be one of the weirdest stories ever. It involves a supermarket grocery bagger in drag, his love rival, a girl and a gun.
Just Another Harlem Dice Game
Orange street lamps were overtaking the remaining sunlight on a recent Wednesday as Courtney Colbert showed off his signature move to the half-dozen boys and men gathered on a street corner in Harlem.
For the New York Times, Writer Sarah Maslin Nir went out on a warm summer night in Harlem to cover the unofficial street-corner gambling. There she met up with Courtney Colbert, who is described as a nearly unbeatable cee-lo roller. A nice little story about urban summer activities.
For the New York Times, Writer Sarah Maslin Nir went out on a warm summer night in Harlem to cover the unofficial street-corner gambling. There she met up with Courtney Colbert, who is described as a nearly unbeatable cee-lo roller. A nice little story about urban summer activities.
Big L – Casualties of a Dice Game
Another Harlem born legend, who might have played dice in the same street corners as Mr Colbert, is Big L. This is probably the best hip hop song ever about dice rolling – at least from a storytelling point of view –and how it can go terribly wrong. This shows what a fine MC Big L was.
Me and my man was cruisin through the streets and everything was flowin nice
The corner's crowded, niggaz must be rollin dice
I parked the ride so my nigga iroc can crash the lye spot
And i'ma gamble until he come back - why not?
Me and my man was cruisin through the streets and everything was flowin nice
The corner's crowded, niggaz must be rollin dice
I parked the ride so my nigga iroc can crash the lye spot
And i'ma gamble until he come back - why not?
Big L – Casualties of a Dice Game
Philaflava Favorites
If you could visit one site – and one site only – with questions about hip hop, the natural destination would be the forum at Phila Flava. The people hanging out there have encyclopedic knowledge about everything from samples on rare white-label 12 inches released from someone´s pick-up truck in ‘96 to what sneakers Bushwick Bill wore when he shot himself in the eye.
These are the Philiflava community’s favorite dice-related hip hop tracks. Thanks to grass, Thun, step one, fatboybrandon, Huldrich Bullsh!t, Jaz, Balzac and Combo7 for the input.
These are the Philiflava community’s favorite dice-related hip hop tracks. Thanks to grass, Thun, step one, fatboybrandon, Huldrich Bullsh!t, Jaz, Balzac and Combo7 for the input.
- Nas – Life Is Like a Dice Game
- Ghostface Killah – The Juks
- Master P – Rollin the Dice
- Main Flow – Dice Roll
- Naughty by Nature – City Of Ci-Lo
- Warren G – Regulate
- Ice Cube – What They Hittin Foe?
- Lost Boyz - Let's Roll Dice
- Blacastan – Dice Life
- Eazy E – Eazy Duz It
Outro
So that was street craps according to hip hop legends. But did I leave out any classics? Are there more people I should’ve mentioned? Are there any anecdotes that should’ve been included? Probably. I intend to keep this article alive and add songs or stories if anyone comes up with something that should be in here. But for now, I’ll let Rasco sum it all up.
Regret, nothin' in life don't live trife
Ain't killed nobody ain't stole no man's wife
But twice, brothers tried to roll the dice
Niggaz crabbed out and had to pay the price
Regret, nothin' in life don't live trife
Ain't killed nobody ain't stole no man's wife
But twice, brothers tried to roll the dice
Niggaz crabbed out and had to pay the price
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