JiLi333 Sic Bo Rules: Dice, Payouts and House Edge by Bet

Sic bo rules come down to one question: what do three dice show when the shaker opens? This page, part of the live dealer etiquette section, follows one round from “No more bets” to payout, lists the bets with a regulator’s payout for each, and ranks them by house edge so you know what each chip costs on average.

JiLi333’s lobby lists Evolution among its studio tabs under Live. Open the Live section, search for Sic Bo, and read the table’s own paytable and its minimum and maximum before betting. The payouts below are the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s, which sets minimum payouts for land tables, and the house edges are Wizard of Odds figures for the same payouts.

Sic Bo rules: how three dice settle a round

One round follows the same order every time. The steps below are the Massachusetts Gaming Commission’s rules for Sic Bo.

1. Bets go on the layout. The Massachusetts rules say wagers are made by placing chips on the layout areas, and each wager is settled by where it sits when the round is called.
2. The dealer announces “No more bets” before shaking the dice.
3. Three dice, sealed in a shaker, are mixed.
4. The dealer announces each die’s value, and the winning combinations light up on the layout.
5. Losing wagers are collected first, then winning wagers are paid at the posted odds.

Three dice have 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 equally likely outcomes. Every probability on this page is a count of those outcomes divided by 216, which is why you can check them by hand.

Sic Bo bets and what each one wins on

The Massachusetts rules define each bet in one sentence. Here they are in plain words.

• Small wins when the three dice total 4 to 10, and Big wins on a total of 11 to 17. Both lose if three of a kind appears.
• A total bet wins when the dice add up to the number you chose.
• A specific triple wins when all three dice show the number you chose.
• Any triple wins when all three dice show the same number, whichever it is.
• A double, which the Massachusetts rules call two of a kind, wins when your number shows on two dice; Wizard of Odds counts three matching dice as a win too.
• An any-two-dice combination wins when two chosen numbers both appear.
• One of a kind wins when one or more dice show your number.

Evolution’s Super Sic Bo describes the same families of bet, with fourteen total areas labelled 4 to 17 and a two-dice combination list of 15 possibilities. It adds a layer: random multipliers of up to 1000x on selected bet spots. Treat its payouts as its own, and read the rules screen on the table.

Sic Bo bets table: payout and house edge

Payouts are the Massachusetts minimum payouts. The house edge is Wizard of Odds’ figure for the matching payout, which it lists as the Macau payout. A different table with different odds has a different house edge.

One caution on the last row. The Massachusetts payout table and New Jersey’s printed table both show “One of a kind” as “1 to 10”, but the clause beneath the Massachusetts table says it is paid at 2 to 1 if two dice match and at 3 to 1 if all three match. Wizard of Odds lists one match at 1 to 1, so that row reads 1, 2 and 3 to 1, and no single-die payout is taken from the “1 to 10” print.

Worked example: where a house edge number comes from

A house edge is a count, not a feeling. Take the total of 4. Only three of the 216 outcomes add to 4: 1-1-2 in its three orderings. At 50 to 1, those three wins return 3 x 50 = 150 units, and the other 213 outcomes lose 213 units.

1. Net over all 216 outcomes: 150 minus 213 equals minus 63 units.
2. Divide by 216: minus 63 / 216 = minus 0.2917.
3. The house edge is 29.17 percent, matching the Wizard of Odds table.

Do the same for Small. It wins on 105 of 216 outcomes and loses on 111, because totals 4 to 10 have 107 outcomes and two of them are triples (2-2-2 and 3-3-3), which Small loses. At 1 to 1 the net is 105 minus 111 equals minus 6, and minus 6 / 216 gives 2.78 percent. Any triple, with 6 of 216 outcomes at 24 to 1, nets 144 minus 210 equals minus 66, which is 30.56 percent.

Which Sic Bo bets carry the widest house edge

Ranked from widest to narrowest using the table above:

1. Total of 5 or 16, 47.22 percent.
2. Double, 33.33 percent.
3. Total of 6 or 15 and Any triple, 30.56 percent each.
4. Specific triple, 30.09 percent.
5. Total of 4 or 17, 29.17 percent.
6. Total of 9 or 12, 18.98 percent.
7. Any two dice combination, 16.67 percent.
8. Total of 10 or 11 and Total of 8 or 13, 12.50 percent each.
9. Total of 7 or 14, 9.72 percent.
10. One of a kind, 7.87 percent.
11. Small or Big, 2.78 percent.

Big payouts attract attention, but a specific triple at 150 to 1 wins on only 1 of 216 outcomes for the number you chose, and its edge sits near 30 percent. On ₱1,000 of total stake, 2.78 percent costs ₱27.80 on average and 30.09 percent costs ₱300.90.

These are long-run averages, and a short session swings far from them; how volatility shapes a session explains why. Dice carry no memory, which is the same independence that makes a Crazy Time statistics and spin history panel useless for forecasting. For a one-card game with its own set of tips, read Dragon Tiger tips that survive arithmetic.