What is Crapless Craps?

Crapless Craps makes exactly one promise: you will never crap out. It keeps that promise - and quietly charges you almost four times the house edge for it.

Quick answer: Crapless Craps is a variant where you can't lose the come-out roll: a 7 still wins, but 2, 3, 11 and 12 become points instead of instant wins or losses. The comfort has a price - giving up the automatic 11 win raises the pass edge to about 5.38%.

How Crapless works

On the come-out, a 7 wins even money and nothing loses. Every other total - including 2, 3, 11 and 12 - becomes a point, which you must repeat before a 7 exactly as in regular craps. The game offers Pass and Come only (there's no don't side, since crapping out no longer exists), plus the field and one-roll props.

The hidden price

The comfort of never crapping out costs you the automatic win on 11 - and that trade is terrible. In standard craps, the 11 wins instantly; here it becomes one of the hardest points on the table (2 ways to roll it against the 7's six). The 2 and 12 are worse still, made only 1 time in 7. Net effect: the pass edge climbs from 1.41% to about 5.38%.

The odds silver lining

Because the extreme points are so hard to make, odds bets on them pay fat true odds: 6:1 on the 2 or 12 and 3:1 on the 3 or 11, still with zero house edge, while the box numbers pay standard. Landing a 6:1 odds win on a point of 12 is a genuine thrill you can't get at a regular table. Try it with free chips at the Crapless table.

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Related questions

What is High Point Craps?

High Point Craps is a simplified variant: on the come-out, 2 and 3 are ignored, 11 or 12 wins instantly, a first-roll 7 loses, and any other total becomes your point - which you must beat with a strictly higher roll before a 7. One even-money bet; about 2.35% under casino rules, friendlier on our free-chip table.

What is the hardest craps variant?

Hazard is the hardest to learn - the winning and losing numbers change depending on which main you call. Crapless Craps is the sneakiest: it feels safer because you can't crap out, but the pass edge rises to about 5.38%. Full bank craps is the deepest, with the most bets to master.

How many craps variants are there?

Dozens have existed across 700 years of dice history. Craps.now offers 8 playable variants in three families: the casino classics (Craps, Crapless, New York), modern simplifications (High Point, Simplified, Die Rich) and the street and historical games (Street Craps and medieval Hazard).