Casino dice games in Australia: what the house actually takes

24 October 2026 · verified against the Australian Communications and Media Authority’s published formal warnings and blocking requests

Dice on a casino floor in Australia are a different proposition from dice advertised online. A punter who walks into Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth or The Star Sydney will find real dice tables running under state-issued licences, with rules approved by the relevant gaming commission, with rules posted on request, with a regulator to complain to and a self-exclusion register that applies. The same game advertised by an offshore operator with a Curaçao or Anjouan licence at the top of its homepage is in a different category altogether, because the Interactive Gambling Act 2001 has made it unlawful to provide online casino games to a person physically in Australia since 2017, and the ACMA has spent the years since then issuing formal warnings, requesting ISP blocks and naming the operators who keep advertising anyway. The arithmetic the rest of this page runs is the house edge across dice bets; the legal reality behind it is what determines whether any of those bets is actually offered to an Australian, and where.

Responsible gambling supports and the limits of offshore protection

The shape of help available to an Australian punter depends entirely on which side of the licensing line their gambling happens. BetStop, the National Self-Exclusion Register, has been live since August 2023 and binds every Australian-licensed online and phone wagering service — sports and race betting placed with Sportsbet, Ladbrokes or Bet365, the kind of operators licensed through the Northern Territory Racing and Wagering Commission. A punter who self-excludes through BetStop cannot open new accounts with those operators, cannot deposit into existing ones, and cannot collect marketing. The register covers wagering; it does not extend to land-based casino floors, where state-level exclusion schemes run alongside it.

Offshore casino sites carry no equivalent. A site licensed in Curaçao, Anjouan or the Kahnawake territory is not connected to BetStop, has no obligation to honour an Australian self-exclusion request, and supplies no local complaints body if a withdrawal is refused. The Interactive Gambling Act targets the provider, not the player, which is why the ACMA’s enforcement actions read as a list of operator names and not as a list of prosecutions. The punter who plays with one of these brands has no Australian consumer protection, and the brand itself can be added to an ISP block list with a balance still on the account.

Free, confidential support is available regardless of where the gambling happens. The National Gambling Helpline, 1800 858 858, runs 24 hours a day. Gambling Help Online carries web chat, email and self-help tools and is funded by the Commonwealth. State-level services — Gambler’s Help in Victoria, GambleAware in New South Wales, the various Help lines in Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory — sit underneath it. Counselling is free, sessions can be anonymous, and financial counselling is part of the package rather than an add-on.

The credit-card ban that came into effect on 11 June 2024 sharpened the line further. Licensed Australian wagering operators cannot accept credit cards, credit-related products or digital currency as a deposit; the legal routes are debit card, bank transfer, PayID, Osko and BPAY. Penalties for the operator side reach A$247,500. A site that asks an Australian punter for a credit card or a Bitcoin deposit is operating outside the Australian regime, which is a useful early warning in itself.

Dice games by the numbers: craps, sic bo, two-up

Three dice games actually reach Australian players. Craps and sic bo sit at the licensed casino floors, with rules approved by the state regulator. Two-up has a narrower footprint, legal only in specific settings. Every other dice-flavoured product an offshore site advertises — a “craps” game with three dice, an electronic sic bo with a redesigned paytable, a one-roll proposition bet dressed up as a side game — sits outside any Australian licence.

Craps and the difference a bet selection makes

Craps is the dice game the rest of this page keeps coming back to, because the spread of house edges inside one game is unusually wide and the choice of bet is the entire decision a punter makes. On a Pass Line or Come bet the casino keeps 1.41 cents in the dollar over the long run. On the mirror bet — Don’t Pass or Don’t Come — the edge drops to 1.36 cents. A one-roll Any Craps bet, where the punter wins if the very next roll is 2, 3 or 12, returns the casino 11.11 cents in the dollar. The numbers come from Wizard of Odds’ published house-edge reference, which is the standard source for craps math and which keeps the figures consistent across rulesets. The reason the spread is so wide is that craps pays out as if a 2 or 12 on Any Craps is a 30-to-1 event when the true odds are 33-to-1, and similar mismatches stack up across the proposition bets.

The bet selection matters more than the game. A punter who sticks to Pass, Come, Don’t Pass and Don’t Come with full odds behind the line is paying a casino edge between roughly 1.36% and 1.41% on those wagers, which is comparable to a banker bet at the baccarat table. A punter who drifts across to the centre of the table — Any Seven, Any Craps, the Hardways, the Horn — pays 5% to 16% per bet, which is roughly ten times the cost of the same money on the line.

Wagering terminology reflects which side of the table a punter is on. A “right” bettor is backing the shooter — Pass Line and Come bets, with the dice. A “wrong” bettor is betting against the shooter — Don’t Pass and Don’t Come. The terminology has nothing to do with the bettor being correct or incorrect; it describes which side of the dice they have bet on. Don’t Pass carries a marginally lower house edge than Pass, and a small number of experienced craps players stick to Don’t Pass for that reason, though it puts them in the awkward position of winning when everyone else at the table is losing.

Craps on a licensed Australian floor runs through the same ruleset and the same edge profile. The difference from the offshore version is regulatory: section 66 of the NSW Casino Control Act 1992, for example, requires a casino operator to have every game and its rules approved by the regulator before play, and to make a copy of the approved rules available to patrons on request. The equivalent provision in Victoria sits inside the Casino Control Act 1991 and runs through the Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission. A punter at a Crown Melbourne or Star Sydney craps table is playing a game the state regulator has examined and approved, which is not a small distinction.

Sic bo and the older dice game

Sic bo is the other dice game a licensed Australian casino floor carries. Three dice, 216 equally likely combinations, 56 distinguishable outcomes. The name translates literally as “precious dice”, the game traces back to ancient China, and it came to the United States with Chinese immigrants in the early twentieth century before spreading through Asian-facing casino markets worldwide. The bet that defines the game for most players is the Big/Small wager — a bet on the total of the three dice falling outside the small range (4-10) or inside it (11-17), with triples losing. That bet carries a 2.78% house edge, roughly double the Pass Line figure on a craps table, and it is the cheapest way to play.

The expensive end of the sic bo paytable runs far higher. Specific Triple bets — a wager that all three dice will land on a single named number — carry house edges from 11.6% up to 30.09% depending on the ruleset the casino runs. A Double bet, on two of the three dice matching a chosen number, sits somewhere between the two. The same logic as craps applies: the cheapest bets are the simplest, and the bets with the most glamorous payouts are the ones the casino earns the most from.

Two-up, Anzac Day and Crown

Two-up is technically a coin-tossing game rather than a dice game, and the law around it is unusually narrow. The game evolved from the eighteenth-century English and Irish “cross and pile” and arrived in Australia with the convicts. Outside specific exceptions it is illegal to play; the principal exception is Anzac Day, when the Gambling (Two-Up) Act 1998 lets it be played in NSW RSL clubs and hotels. Kalgoorlie in Western Australia runs the country’s only year-round legal two-up school. Among licensed casinos, only Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne still host the game after the broader legalisation in casinos began at Hobart in 1973.

Two-up appears on the page because dice-style games appear under the same broad interest category, and a searcher looking up casino dice games in Australia is often looking up two-up by accident or by association. The point worth making is that the legal footprint is specific enough that a punter cannot just turn up at any Australian casino and expect the game to be running. A Crown Melbourne patron on any day other than Anzac Day will find the two-up table shuttered.

How a serious dice shortlist is built

A ranking of casino dice games in Australia is a ranking of two different kinds of thing, and a comparison that flattens them is misleading. The licensed side has a short, mostly fixed shelf: Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth and the Sydney and Gold Coast casinos run baccarat, blackjack and the dice games they have chosen to license, with rules approved by the state regulator and changes logged publicly. The VGCCC’s own log of approved changes at Crown Melbourne, for instance, records the renaming of the Perfect Pairs side bet at the blackjack tables to “Crown Pairs” on 23 December 2024 and the introduction of a Free Bet option with a new Pot of Gold side bet on 25 March 2024. Baccarat at Crown comes in three approved variants — Traditional, Crown and 2-to-1 — and blackjack variants like Spanish 21, Double Exposure, Blackjack Switch and Super Fun 21 are well-known alternative rulesets a regulator approves case by case.

The offshore side is the long one. Hundreds of brands run a craps or sic bo page, most of them under a Curaçao or Anjouan licence, none of them connected to an Australian regulator, and a meaningful slice of them the subject of an ACMA formal warning or an ISP block request. The shelf does not sort itself.

A shortlist that is worth reading separates four things. First, the licensing question: is the operator licensed by an Australian state or territory regulator for the product it offers to Australians? The answer for every offshore brand is no, because the Interactive Gambling Act does not let that licence exist. Second, the regulatory footprint: has the ACMA named the operator in a formal warning, an ISP block request, or both? That question reads the regulator’s own published list. Third, the game offering: does the site actually run craps or sic bo at all, or only the slots and live-dealer products that an Australian would face legal exposure for using? Fourth, the protection question: is the operator connected to BetStop, to a state self-exclusion register, to an Australian complaints body? The answer for offshore brands is no.

The five questions separate a comparison from a list. A comparison answers them; a list only names brands.

Australian casino dice games in 2026: the landscape

The Australian casino industry has been running roughly the way it has run for a generation, with one significant regulatory reset and a slow shift in the mix of products the state regulators approve. Crown Melbourne remains the country’s largest single-site casino and runs the broadest dice offering; Crown Perth runs two-up alongside the standard table games; The Star Sydney and The Star Gold Coast round out the major floors. The Victorian Gambling and Casino Control Commission replaced the Victorian Commission for Gambling and Liquor Regulation on 1 July 2022 and took over the role of approving and logging table-game changes at Crown Melbourne.

The offshore market has been doing the opposite. The ACMA’s first blocking request went out in November 2019. By the end of June 2026 the cumulative count reached 1,751 illegal gambling and affiliate marketing websites blocked since that first request, and the ACMA reported more than 230 unlicensed gambling services had left the Australian market entirely since enforcement was strengthened in 2017. H2 Gambling Capital’s 2025 report estimated Australians lose around A$3.9 billion a year to illegal gambling sites, and that the share of gambling going through legal channels fell from 74% in 2021 to 64%. The two figures tell the same story: enforcement is real, and the unlicensed market is still larger than the licensed one.

The IGA amendment that passed Parliament on 19 August 2026 sits in front of that picture. Its advertising and inducement measures commence on 1 January 2027, which means the rule is law with a start date, not yet in force on a 2026 page. The interactive-gambling prohibition itself has been in force since 2017, and the ACMA’s enforcement against it has not waited for the new provisions.

Legality and regulation in Australia

The Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as tightened by the Interactive Gambling Amendment Act 2017, makes it an offence to provide online casino games, online pokies or in-play betting to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory licences those products. What is licensable is wagering on races and sport placed before the event, lotteries and keno — in practice licensed by the Northern Territory through the NTRWC, which regulates 52 of Australia’s online bookmakers including Sportsbet, Bet365 and Ladbrokes. The NTRWC is small: it has no full-time staff and meets once a month in Darwin, which is why reform bills surface regularly in the NT parliament.

The individual player is not prosecuted under the IGA. The Act targets the provider, which is why the ACMA’s enforcement is a list of operator names — Pulsup Ltd in March 2026 over Rocketplay.com.au, Dama N.V. over multiple brands across 2022 and 2025, Consolutetish S.R.L. in July 2025, Bamboo Media in July 2025, EOD Code SRL in February 2025, Ryker B.V. in April 2026, Sterplay Holding Ltd in April 2025, Hollycorn N.V. in September 2022. The pattern is the same every time: a formal warning that names the operator, the brand and the date, published on the ACMA’s website, followed in many cases by an ISP block request.

A punter who deposits with an offshore casino gives up the Australian protections that come with a licensed product. There is no Australian complaints body to approach if a withdrawal is refused, no local small-claims path, no obligation on the operator to honour an Australian self-exclusion, and no connection to BetStop. The site’s licence in Curaçao or Anjouan is enforceable in those jurisdictions and effectively unenforceable from Australia. The ACMA can block the site, and the balance can be left inside it.

The financial side of the regime matters for what a punter is asked to do at the deposit screen. Since 11 June 2024, licensed Australian wagering operators have not been able to accept credit cards, credit-related products or digital currency as payment; the legal deposit routes are debit card, bank transfer, PayID, Osko and BPAY. Penalties for the operator side run up to A$247,500. An offshore site asking for a credit card or a crypto deposit is operating outside the Australian rules, and the request itself is a signal worth reading.

Gambling winnings for a recreational player are not assessable income under section 6-5 of the ITAA 1997, and losses are not deductible. The exception is a person carrying on a business of gambling, which is a different tax question and a model only — a punter with a serious win is well advised to check with the ATO.

Featured operators the ACMA has named

What follows is not a ranking. It is the list of brands the ACMA itself has named in formal warnings or block requests over the period covered by the research. No bonus terms are included, because the only sources for those terms were affiliate marketing pages, and an operator offering a prohibited product does not get an advertising write-up. Each entry names the operator the ACMA identified, the date of the formal warning, and the fact that online casino games cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia, whatever licence the operator displays at the top of its homepage.

Two patterns are visible across the table. First, the ACMA’s enforcement is concentrated against a handful of operators running multiple brands. Dama N.V. alone accounted for four of the eleven entries on the table, Consolutetish S.R.L. for two, and the rest of the brands are spread across separate operators. Second, the formal warnings have accelerated: seven of the eleven were issued between February 2025 and April 2026, and the earlier entries cluster in 2022. The pattern is consistent with the IGA amendment regime settling in, the ACMA’s enforcement capacity growing, and offshore operators cycling brand names faster than the regulator catches up with the new ones.

RocketPlay — Pulsup Ltd, March 2026

The most recent ACMA action on the list is the formal warning to Pulsup Ltd over Rocketplay.com.au in March 2026. The brand had already been the subject of a May 2022 formal warning to Dama N.V., one of six brands covered by that single notice. Rocketplay carries no Australian licence for online casino games; the only licence a casino site can hold for the product is one the IGA does not allow. The subject support column is blank, as no dice-game offering for this brand could be verified.

Level Up Casino — Dama N.V., May 2022

Level Up Casino was one of six brands the ACMA named in a single May 2022 formal warning to Dama N.V. — alongside Bambet, Dazard, Rocketplay, Wild Tornado and Cobra Casinos. Dama N.V. is a Curaçao-incorporated operator that runs a large stable of brands; the ACMA has come back to it more than once since 2022, with separate warnings for Woo Casino and Spirit Casino in 2025. Bgaming.com lists Level Up as a partner operator, which is the only subject-support entry the research could confirm. A craps or sic bo table at Level Up is not a verified offering.

Woo Casino — Dama N.V., March 2025

Woo Casino drew its own formal warning in March 2025, separate from the May 2022 multi-brand notice. The operator is the same Dama N.V., the Australian exposure is the same, and the legal posture is the same: no Australian licence is possible for online casino games under the IGA. The site shows a Curaçao licence at the top of its homepage; that licence is enforceable in Curaçao, not in Australia.

Spirit Casino — Dama N.V., May 2025

Spirit Casino took the third Dama N.V. entry on the table, with its own formal warning in May 2025. The pattern is familiar: same operator, different brand name, same regulatory action. The acceleration in Dama N.V. warnings — three separate notices across 2022, March 2025 and May 2025 — is one of the clearer illustrations of how an offshore operator cycles brands faster than the regulator can finish with the old ones.

National Casino — Consolutetish S.R.L., July 2025

National Casino is the first of two Consolutetish S.R.L. entries. The formal warning came in July 2025 alongside Bizzo Casino. The only verifiable subject-support entry is a Wikipedia listing. National Casino has appeared in the ACMA’s enforcement record since the period the research covers and has no Australian licence for the product it offers.

Bizzo Casino — Consolutetish S.R.L., July 2025

Bizzo Casino had already been the subject of a 2022 formal warning to TechSolutions (CY) Group Limited and TechSolutions Group N.V. before the July 2025 notice to Consolutetish S.R.L. Two formal warnings, two operators, the same Australian player base — the regulator has come back to this brand more than once. The July 2025 entry sits alongside National Casino because both brands now run through Consolutetish S.R.L.

Ignition Casino — Bamboo Media, July 2025

Ignition Casino was one of two brands the ACMA named in a July 2025 formal warning to Bamboo Media. The brand has been marketed toward Australian players alongside its American-facing counterpart; the warning records that the offering reached Australian customers regardless of which site they landed on. There is no Australian licence for online casino games under the IGA, and the brand carries no entry in the subject-support column, as no verifiable craps or sic bo offering exists for this operator.

Instant Casino — EOD Code SRL, February 2025

Instant Casino took its formal warning in February 2025, with EOD Code SRL named as the operator. The brand was the subject of a single ACMA notice and has no Australian licence for online casino games. A subject-support entry is blank, as no such game offering is publicly verifiable.

Jackbit — Ryker B.V., April 2026

Jackbit shared its April 2026 formal warning with CasinOK, both under Ryker B.V. The warning is the most recent Dama-adjacent enforcement action on the table. Ryker B.V. is a Curaçao-incorporated operator; the brand carries no Australian licence. Our research yielded no verification of a dice-game presence.

Casino Intense — Sterplay Holding Ltd, April 2025

Casino Intense took its formal warning in April 2025 under Sterplay Holding Ltd. The subject-support column carries listings references from ABC, ACMA and Crown Melbourne — the latter entries presumably reflect Casino Intense’s appearance in coverage adjacent to Australian licensed products rather than any partnership. The brand itself is offshore and outside Australian regulatory reach for the product it offers.

Sky Crown — Hollycorn N.V., September 2022

Sky Crown is one of two brands the ACMA named in a formal warning to Hollycorn N.V., alongside Blue Leo. The warning was issued in September 2022 and is the earliest entry on the table. Hollycorn N.V. runs a stable of brands under Curaçao licences; the ACMA’s notice records the Australian exposure. No such dice offering could be verified.

Calculation: the cost of enforcement in the IGA era

The ACMA’s blocking action provides the inputs for one arithmetic. The first blocking request went out in November 2019. As of the June 2026 round, the cumulative count was 1,751 blocked sites. That works out to roughly 251 sites blocked per year over the six-and-a-half-year window from the first request to the June 2026 tally — or, broken down more finely, between 250 and 300 a year depending on which month of the cycle the page is read against. A single June 2026 round took out 12 sites: 7Signs, ChromaBet, Donbet, Duospin, Freshbet, Slots Gem, Jacks Club, Lucky Start, Pointsbetz.com, Spinrise, Vinyl Casino and Wildsino.

The blocking rate is the regulator’s main lever, and the arithmetic puts it on the page. The first request in November 2019 was the regulator’s first use of the power; the running total of 1,751 sites is the cumulative count. The result is a band, not a single figure, because the count depends on which reporting date the page is read against — the rate between November 2019 and June 2026 runs roughly 250-260 sites a year, while the rate between the first request and the most recent full-year count sits closer to 280. The point is that the ACMA is blocking at a steady, sustained pace, not in occasional bursts, and that the cumulative count is the right number to read rather than any single round.

The 230-plus services that left the Australian market since 2017 is the parallel figure. Some of those operators withdrew voluntarily when a formal warning landed; some shut their Australian-facing pages and continued elsewhere; some rebranded and came back under a new name. The cumulative block count and the cumulative withdrawal count both move in the same direction, and the arithmetic puts the enforcement rate in front of the reader rather than leaving it implicit.

Comparing the house edge across dice games

A reader who came to this page for the house-edge arithmetic has the figures in front of them, but the comparison is worth drawing explicitly. On a craps table, Pass and Come sit at 1.41%, Don’t Pass and Don’t Come at 1.36%, and Any Craps at 11.11%. On a sic bo table, Big/Small sits at 2.78% and Specific Triple bets run from 11.6% to 30.09% depending on the ruleset. The cheapest craps bet is roughly half the cost of the cheapest sic bo bet. The cheapest bets across both games are still cheaper than the proposition bets inside either game, and the gap between best and worst inside one craps table is wider than the gap between the cheapest craps bet and the cheapest baccarat Banker bet at 1.06%.

The decision a punter makes is which game to sit at and which bet to place. A craps punter who stays on the line is paying the casino around 1.4 cents in the dollar over the long run. A sic bo punter who stays on Big/Small is paying around 2.8 cents in the dollar. A baccarat punter on the Banker bet is paying 1.06 cents in the dollar. A blackjack punter under liberal Las Vegas Strip rules with optimal strategy is paying around 0.28 cents in the dollar. The arithmetic puts craps in the same range as the cheapest baccarat bet, sic bo a step more expensive, and blackjack with optimal play the cheapest table-game edge on a casino floor.

A punter who drifts from the cheap bets to the centre of the table pays ten times as much, which is the figure that drives the “bet selection matters more than the game” line. The house edge inside craps is not a single number — it is a range from 1.36% to 16.67%, with the high end on Hardways and certain proposition bets. The same range logic applies to sic bo. The cheapest bets across the games are comparable to other table games; the most expensive bets are roughly an order of magnitude worse.

The offshore dice offering in 2026

The offshore dice market is the bigger of the two by brand count, smaller by Australian revenue because of the legal exposure, and the one the ACMA’s enforcement record describes. The 1,751 blocked sites since November 2019 are mostly the offshore brands that advertised to Australians and either ignored a formal warning or were caught up in an ISP block request without one. The 230 services that left the Australian market since 2017 are the brands that withdrew voluntarily. The H2 Gambling Capital estimate of A$3.9 billion a year in losses to illegal gambling sites is the size of the market that the legal share has been losing ground against, from 74% in 2021 to 64% in the 2025 report.

The licensed Australian floor is the other side. Crown Melbourne’s three baccarat variants — Traditional Baccarat, Crown Baccarat and 2-to-1 Baccarat — are approved table games under the VGCCC’s rules. The same regulator logs every approved change, including the blackjack variant renames and the introduction of Free Bet with the Pot of Gold side bet in 2024. Crown Perth and The Star Sydney run comparable offerings. Two-up is legal only on Anzac Day in NSW and only at Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne among licensed casinos. The licensed offering is narrower than the offshore offering but more strictly governed, and that is the trade-off a punter is choosing between.

The Interactive Gambling Amendment (Gambling Reform) Bill 2026, which passed Parliament on 19 August 2026 with advertising and inducement measures commencing 1 January 2027, sits in front of the existing framework. The interactive-gambling prohibition has been in force since 2017; the 2026 amendment sharpens the enforcement tools rather than reopening the underlying prohibition. A 2026 page reads the amendment as a forthcoming tightening rather than a current rule.

Choosing where to play — and where not to

A punter who wants to play craps or sic bo in Australia has a short, real choice. Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth, The Star Sydney and The Star Gold Coast are the major casino floors, each with state-issued licences, each with regulator-approved rules, each with a complaints body and a self-exclusion register that applies. Two-up is legal only on Anzac Day in NSW and at Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne among licensed casinos. Online casino dice games are not a licensed product in Australia and cannot become one under the current IGA. The offshore sites that advertise them are outside the Australian regime, and the ACMA’s enforcement record is the list of operators who have chosen to keep advertising anyway.

The legal exposure for the punter is low — the IGA targets the provider, not the player — but the consumer exposure is real. There is no Australian complaints body for an offshore brand, no local path to recover a refused withdrawal, no obligation to honour an Australian self-exclusion, and no connection to BetStop. The site can be blocked by an ISP request with a balance still on the account. The credit-card and crypto ban that took effect on 11 June 2024 has closed the obvious deposit routes through licensed Australian operators, but the offshore sites that ask for credit-card or crypto deposits are the same ones operating outside the Australian regime.

The arithmetic the page ran is the house edge across dice bets; the licensing line is what determines whether any of those bets is offered to an Australian at all. A punter who wants to play craps, sic bo or two-up in Australia plays at a licensed casino floor. A punter who plays dice online plays with an operator the ACMA has either warned, blocked, or both — and that is the rest of the choice.

Frequently asked questions

What is the house edge on a Pass Line bet in craps?

The Pass Line bet in craps carries a 1.41% house edge, which works out to about 1.41 cents in the dollar returned to the casino over the long run. The mirror bet — Don’t Pass — sits at 1.36%, marginally cheaper. Both bets sit alongside the cheapest baccarat and blackjack bets on a casino floor.

Why does the Any Craps one-roll bet carry a much higher house edge than Pass Line?

Any Craps is a one-roll proposition bet that pays 7-to-1 on a roll of 2, 3 or 12. The true odds against a 2, 3 or 12 on the next roll are 8-to-1, so the payout is short by roughly one unit on every winning roll. The result is an 11.11% house edge, which is roughly eight times the cost of the same money on the Pass Line.

Are dice games like craps offered on licensed Australian casino floors?

Yes. Craps and sic bo both appear at Crown Melbourne, Crown Perth, The Star Sydney and The Star Gold Coast. Two-up has a narrower footprint — Crown Perth and Crown Melbourne among licensed casinos, plus NSW RSL clubs and hotels on Anzac Day under the Gambling (Two-Up) Act 1998. Online dice games cannot be licensed anywhere in Australia under the Interactive Gambling Act.

What’s the difference between a “right” bettor and a “wrong” bettor in craps?

A “right” bettor is backing the shooter — Pass Line and Come bets, with the dice. A “wrong” bettor is betting against the shooter — Don’t Pass and Don’t Come. The terminology has nothing to do with the bettor being right or wrong; it describes which side of the dice the bet is on. Don’t Pass carries a marginally lower house edge than Pass.

Can an online dice game legally be offered to someone based in Australia?

No. Under the Interactive Gambling Act 2001, as amended in 2017, it is an offence to provide online casino games — including craps and sic bo — to a person physically in Australia. No state or territory issues licences for the product, and the ACMA enforces the prohibition through formal warnings and ISP block requests. The IGA targets the provider, not the player.

Do all casino dice games use the same house-edge structure as craps?

No. Craps has a wide range of house edges inside a single game, from 1.36% on Don’t Pass to 16.67% on certain Hardways bets. Sic bo runs from 2.78% on Big/Small up to 30.09% on certain Specific Triple bets. The cheapest bets are comparable across both games; the most expensive bets are roughly an order of magnitude worse than the cheapest.