Is the Sic Bo trainer free?

Yes. The trainer is free, runs in your browser with play money, and needs no signup. It is built for practice and learning only.

How do you play Sic Bo?

Three dice are shaken in a cup or drum. Before the shake you place chips on any bets on the table: the total of the three dice, whether it lands Big or Small, specific numbers, pairs, or triples. Once the dice settle, every bet on the table is paid or collected at the same time based on the result.

What is the best bet in Sic Bo?

Big, Small, and Single Number carry the lowest house edge on the table. Big and Small pay even money and carry a 2.78% house edge. Every other bet, especially Doubles, Triples, and Combination bets, carries a much higher house edge, in some cases close to 19%.

What is the house edge in Sic Bo?

It depends entirely on which bet you place. Big and Small sit at 2.78%. Single Number bets run about 7.87%. Total bets range from about 9.72% up to 18.98% depending on the number. Doubles run about 18.52% and a specific Triple runs about 16.2% under standard Atlantic City rules.

Sic Bo Trainer | Free Practice, Every Bet and House Edge Explained

Guided Tour

Step 1 of 6

Place your bets Pick a chip, then click any bet on the table.

Chip size

Place a bet to see its house edge.

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Shake the dice to start. Your last ten rounds show up here.

Sic Bo has no correct play in the way blackjack or video poker do. Every bet is settled purely by chance on three shaken dice, and the dice do not remember the last shake. The only decision that actually matters is which squares you put money on, because the house edge swings from 2.78% to 18.98% depending on the bet. This is every bet ranked from cheapest to most expensive, under standard Atlantic City rules.

Best value — stick to these

2.78%Big (total 11–17) and Small (total 4–10). Both pay even money and both lose automatically on any triple. This is the closest thing to a low-risk bet on the table.
7.87%Single Number. Pick one face, 1 through 6. Pays 1 to 1 for one match, 2 to 1 for two matches, 3 to 1 if all three dice match.

Fair, but pricier

9.72%Total 7 or 14. The cheapest of the total bets, paying 12 to 1.
12.5%Total 8 or 13 (pays 8 to 1) and Total 10 or 11 (pays 6 to 1).
13.89%Total 5 or 16 (pays 30 to 1) and Any Triple (pays 30 to 1, wins on any three-of-a-kind).

Expensive — the house really wins here

15.28%Total 4 or 17. Pays 60 to 1, but only 3 ways out of 216 to hit it.
16.2%Specific Triple (for example 4-4-4). Pays 180 to 1. Only 1 way out of 216 to hit your exact triple.
16.67%Combination / Domino (any two chosen numbers, like 3 and 5). Pays 5 to 1. Total 6 or 15 also sits here, paying 17 to 1.

Worst on the table

18.52%Specific Double (at least two of one chosen number). Pays 10 to 1.
18.98%Total 9 or 12. The single worst bet on the felt, paying only 6 to 1 despite being one of the harder totals to land the way you'd expect.

If you play only one lesson from this page: everything outside Big, Small, and Single Number costs you two to seven times more of every dollar you bet, on average.

The words that matter

TotalThe sum of all three dice, from 3 to 18. Totals of 3 and 18 are not their own bet; they always belong to the specific Triple 1 and Triple 6 bets.
CombinationAlso called a Domino. You pick two different numbers, and any roll containing both wins, regardless of the third die.
DoubleYou pick one number. It wins if at least two of the three dice show that number, including if all three do.
TripleAll three dice show the same number. A Specific Triple names the number in advance; Any Triple wins on any of the six triples.

Pay table (Atlantic City rules, to 1)

Big / Small	1
Total 7, 14	12
Total 8, 13	8
Total 9, 12 · Total 10, 11	6
Total 5, 16 · Any Triple	30
Total 4, 17	60
Total 6, 15	17
Specific Triple	180
Specific Double	10
Combination / Domino	5
Single Number (per match)	1–3

Common mistakes

Chasing the Specific Triple for the 180 to 1 payout. There is exactly 1 way out of 216 to hit your exact triple. The true odds are 215 to 1 against you, but the bet only pays 180 to 1. Casinos love this bet precisely because the number on the felt looks huge.
Treating Total 9 and 12 as a middle-of-the-road bet. It looks safer than the long-shot totals because it hits more often, but at an 18.98% house edge it is actually the worst bet on the table.
Loading up on Doubles and Combinations to "cover more numbers." Spreading chips across many bad bets does not lower the house edge, it just multiplies your exposure to it.
Reading a trend board. Every shake of three dice is independent of the last. A run of Small results does not make Big more likely on the next shake.
Ignoring the triple exception on Big and Small. Both bets lose automatically on any triple, even when the total would otherwise fall in range. A roll of 3-3-3 totals 9, squarely inside Small, and a roll of 4-4-4 totals 12, squarely inside Big — both still lose. This exception is what gives the house its 2.78% edge on an otherwise 50/50 bet.

Odds and pay table from Michael Shackleford, Wizard of Odds — Sic Bo, Atlantic City rules. Payoffs vary by casino; always check the felt or the online paytable before you bet.

About this Sic Bo trainer

Sic Bo is an ancient Chinese dice game, the name translates loosely to "dice pair," and it is one of the most popular games on the floor in Macau, where it usually sits second only to baccarat. In the United States it shows up in Asian gaming rooms and on a handful of tables in the bigger Las Vegas casinos. Three dice are shaken, and before the shake settles you can place chips on any of roughly fifty betting areas covering totals, specific numbers, pairs, and triples. Unlike blackjack or poker games, there is no correct card play to learn. The entire skill in Sic Bo is understanding which bets are cheap and which ones quietly hand the house a huge edge.

How the trainer works

Turn on Guided Tour to walk through all six bet families on the table, one at a time: Big and Small, Single Number, Totals, Combinations, Doubles, and Triples. Each step explains what the bet needs to win, what it pays, and its exact house edge, then asks you to place a real chip on that family before moving on. At the end you shake the dice once and see every bet from the tour resolve together, with the payout and house edge on each one laid out side by side. Turn Guided Tour off, or finish the tour, and you move into Free Practice: place any combination of bets you want, shake as many times as you like, and watch your $1,000 bankroll respond to real math instead of a hunch.

Why the house edge is shown on every bet

Because Sic Bo has no strategy chart, the coaching in this trainer is about bet selection rather than decisions mid-hand. Every betting square shows its payout and is color-coded by house edge, and the meter above the chip tray shows the blended house edge of whatever you currently have on the table. Big, Small, and Single Number sit near 2.78% to 7.87%. Everything else, especially Doubles, Triples, and Total 9 or 12, runs from 12.5% up to nearly 19%. Seeing that gap on every roll is the fastest way to learn it.

Practice only

This is a free practice tool that uses play money and keeps nothing between sessions. There is no signup, no wager, and no real gambling. Use it to learn the table layout and the odds cold before you ever sit down at a real Sic Bo game, and remember that Sic Bo is a game of pure chance. No amount of practice changes the odds of the next shake, it only changes how well you understand what you're paying for.

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