Bar Dice Rules

Craps

• This started in the days of prohibition when drinking was made illegal. While bars were not supposed to operate, they did in private clubs called speakeasies. You were not supposed to drink in public and you weren't supposed to gamble either, so bar owner combined these two activities and it proved to be a boon to the bars. In craps, you use two dice. If you roll 7 or 11 on the initial roll you win. If you roll 2, 3 or 12, you lose. Any other number rolled becomes the point. To win your point, you must roll that number before 7 shows on the dice. So if the shooter rolls a 6 on the first roll of the dice, he will continue to roll the dice until 6 or 7 shows. If 6 comes first, he wins the point and continues to roll. If 7 comes up first, he loses and the dice go to the next shooter.

Chicago

• Chicago is a popular dice game. It involves two dice and a score sheet showing every combination total. The idea is to fill out your score sheet with each possible total. There are 11 possibilities--2 through 12. If you roll a 6 on the first roll, you mark down a 6. You continue to check off your scores unless you get a repeating total. In that case, you don't get credit for any points. You pass the dice after each roll. The person who fills out his score sheet the fastest wins the game.

Twenty-six

• This game is played with 10 dice. You choose a number on the dice--anything between 1 and 6 and then you bet an amount of money determined by the bar. You roll the 10 dice 13 times. You have to count the number of times your number comes up during the 13 rolls. Then you look at the following table to see if you get paid:
  10 times or less: 10 -1
  13 times: 5 -1
  26 times: 4 -1
  27 times: 5 -1
  28 times: 6 -1
  29 times: 8 -1
  30 times: or more 10 -1
  Any other score loses and does not get paid