The game of craps has its own special lingo. Some would even say craps player speak their own language when at the table. Our craps glossary is designed to help you tune in to this special talk so that you can communicate, as well as understand others when at the craps table.
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Craps Glossary of Bet Types
Buying Odds – The act of backing a bet up to purchase the right to be paid out correctly in the event of a win in craps.
Come Bets – A bet that pays if a 7 or eleven is rolled, and loses if the roll is two, three or twelve. If any other number is rolled, the bet moves or comes to the appropriate number. Then, the bet wins if the number occurs before a 7 is rolled.
C/E – C and E is thought of as an insurance bet. The c refers to craps and the e refers to eleven. When a player bets either the c, the e, or the c and e, they are taking insurance against the shooter rolling craps. This bet is typically placed on the coming out roll.
Don’t Pass Bets, Don’t Betting, Wrong Way Betting – The don’t pass bet is banking on the shooter throwing a 7 prior to hitting point. Players who bet the Don’t line are known as wrong way bettors, as they are betting with the house, and against the shooter (which is why this is viewed as wrong way betting).
Field Bets – This bet is a one-roll bet and you are betting on a single roll to be a either a two, 3, 4, nine, 10, 11 or twelve. If the roll is any of these numbers then you win. Field bets pay evenly, except for when two or twelve hits, at which time it pays double. The bet is lost upon occurrence of any other number.
Hard way Betting – Betting the hard way is the bet a craps player places on an even number that can be rolled in multiple ways. For example, a roll of two threes is considered a hard six. A roll of four and two or five and one is considered an easy six. Hard way betting occurs over the course of several rolls and expires when either the number is rolled (hard or easy way) or a 7 is rolled.
Hopping Bets – A hopping bet is a one-time bet. For example, a shooter can bet on a hopping hard four. If the roll immediately following the bet is a two and two, the bettor is paid. If anything other than two twos is rolled, the bet is a loser.
Horn Bet – The horn bet is a one-time roll on two, three, eleven and twelve. The amount of the bet is distributed evenly between each number.
Lay Bets – Lay bets are craps bets that a 7 occurs prior to the number in which the bet is behind.
Pass Line Bets – When a player bets the pass line, he is betting the shooter will hit point before rolling a 7 after the point is established. This is known as right way betting.
Place Bets – Place bets are made on a number that can be a point, such as 4, 5, six, eight, 9, or ten. Place bets pay if the selected number is rolled, yet loses if a 7 is rolled.
Craps Glossary of Rolls
Coming Out Roll – The coming out roll is the stage of the craps game before point is established.
Craps – Crappy dice are considered rolls of two, three, eleven or twelve, as there are only two ways to roll each of these numbers.
Point – Point is the number a shooter must hit prior to rolling 7.
Craps Glossary for Specific Values Rolled
Each value of the dice has a special name or saying in the craps game. Below are some of the common names each roll has in craps.
- Snake Eyes, Eyeballs, 2 crap aces
- Craps, Craps 3, 2 and 1 son of a gun
- Little Joe, Little Joe from Kokomo
- Five fever, five no field five
- Big Red
- Seven out
- Eighter from Decatur
- Nina niner – wine and dine her, center field
- Puppy paws
- Yo, yo leven, its not my 11 – its yo 11
- box cars, all the spots and all the dots