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------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The game of craps can be a intimidating and confusing experience for newcomers. This program was created not only as a game but also as a learning tool for both beginners and seasoned veterans alike. We have gone to great lengths to make this simulation as complete as possible. The game allows all the types of bets that are allowed in a real craps game. You would be surprised at the number of "craps" games that only allow one or two different types of bets. This version allows approximately 40 different bets. The game also tries to be realistic in its manner of play. This is why instead of just typing a number for the bet you want, this game has you physically placing the bet on the table. If you already know the rules of craps, please skip the next few sections to 'PLAYING THIS GAME' otherwise, the following sections briefly and incompletely try to explain the game. BASIC BETS: PASS LINE BET: this is the most common bet (and one of the better ones). This bet is allowed only when no point has been made. This occurs either at the beginning of the game or after someone has 'crapped out'. Stop giggling, I didn't make these terms. On this game you can tell if a point has been made by looking at the row of numbers near the top of the board (4,5,6,8,9,10). If one of these numbers is gold instead of red then that number is the point. If they are all red, then it is OK to make a pass line bet. After placing a pass line bet, the next roll of the dice will be the 'come out roll'. On this roll, if the dice show a 7 or 11 you win. If they show a 2, 3 or 12 you lose. If the dice show anything else, (4,5,6,8,9,10) this then becomes the 'point'. Once a point has been made, the object is then to roll that same point again before a 7 is rolled. If the point is rolled again, you win, if a 7 rolls, you lose. This sometimes confuses people. Before a point is made, you want a 7 to roll, after a point is made you don't want a 7 to roll. The casino advantage on this bet is only 1.4% Odds can be taken on a pass line bet. These will be discussed later. DON'T PASS LINE: Opposite of a pass line bet. You win if a 2 or 3 are rolled on a come out bet or if a 7 rolls after a point has been made. You lose if a 7 rolls on the come out roll or if the point is made after one has been established. The only thing that's not opposite is the fact that if a 12 rolls on the come out roll, you neither win or lose. This is what gives the casino the advantage. Odds may be taken. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COME BET: Same as a pass line bet except may be placed after a point has been made for the pass line. The next roll will be that bets come out roll. Odds may be taken. DON'T COME BET: Same as a don't pass line bet except may be placed after a point has been made for the pass line. Odds may be taken. FIELD BET: This is a very simple bet. A field bet is a one-time only bet, meaning it is only good for one roll of the dice. If the number of the dice rolled is the same as one of the numbers in the field box then you win even money. The exception to this is the 2 and the 12. If a 2 rolls, you get paid double. If a 12 rolls, you get paid triple. These two numbers are specially marked by a superscript '2'. The house advantage is 2.8% PLACE BET: This is a bet that is made directly on one of the box numbers (4,5,6,8,9,10). These bets may be made at any time and also removed at any time. You win if that number is rolled again before a 7 is rolled. These bets do not pay true odds (this gives the casino the advantage). Bet: Pays: House advantage: 4 or 10 9 to 5 6.7% 5 or 9 7 to 5 4.0% 6 or 8 7 to 6 1.5% Because of these odds, you must bet in increments of $5 for the 4,5,9,10 or $6 for the 6 and 8. Obviously, the 6 and 8 are the better bet because of their lower house advantage. When a Place bet wins, you are given a choice of what to do next. You can take the bet down and collect your money, you can let the bet ride or you can double the bet. Place bets are "off" on the come out roll. This means that the bet will neither win nor lose until a point has been made. OTHER BETS: If your a beginner, skip this section for now and get accustomed with the bets described previously. Most of these bets aren't very good anyway. BIG 6 AND BIG 8: This is a great bet if you want to show everyone how stupid you are. These bets pay even money if a 6 (or 8 depending on which bet was made.) rolls before a 7. The house advantage is 9.1%. Remember that the house advantage on a 6 or 8 place bet is only 1.5%! They are located in the corner of the board nice and big just to attract suckers. PROPOSITION BETS: These are located at the right of the board. They are one-time only bets except for the hardways (hardway means having the same number on each die, so a 4-4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 3 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- is called a hardway 8.) The one-time bets are the SEVEN, 1-1, 6-6, (I know a 1-1 and a 6-6 are hardways but they still are one-time bets.) 1-2, 6-5 or ANY CRAPS. These bets may be placed at any time. In order to win, the roll of the dice must equal your bet. Hardways are not one-time bets. They stay on the board until they win by rolling that combination or lose by rolling a seven or by having the number come up 'soft' say, for example you bet the hard 8 (4-4) and a 6-2 rolls. You lose. Bet: Pays: House Advantage: Hard 4 7 to 1 11.1% Hard 10 7 to 1 11.1% Hard 6 9 to 1 9.1% Hard 8 9 to 1 9.1% Any Craps 7 to 1 11.1% Any 7 4 to 1 16.6% 11 15 to 1 11.1% 2 30 to 1 13.9% 12 30 to 1 13.9% 3 15 to 1 11.1% As can easily be seen, Proposition bets aren't the greatest, unless, of course, you have an intense desire to waste money. If this is the case, please send $100 to the address listed at the end of the program. BUY BETS: This bet is virtually the same as a Place Bet except that it pays true odds. The catch, however is a 5% charge for placing this bet. Because this game deals only in integers, ( I doubt a casino will want to break a chip in half for you either.) A Buy Bet must be made in $20 increments ( 5% of $20 is $1). Buy bet are "off" on the Come out roll. LAY BETS: Opposite of Buy Bets. A Lay Bet wins when a 7 rolls and lose if the number you bet rolls. This also pays true odds and a 5% commission is charged on THE AMOUNT YOU CAN WIN. For example, if you think a 7 will roll before a 10, you would lay $40 on the 10 plus the $1 charge. If This bet won, it would pay 1 to 2 so you would win $20. (5% of $20 is $1) If these last two bets confused you, don't worry about it. These are rather bizarre bets that are seldom bet anyway. Lay bets are "on" on the come out roll. HORN BET: This bet is a combination of the 2, 3, 11, and 12 proposition bet. The bet is made in $4 increments, with $1 going on each or the four bets. The pay off is the same as the regular proposition bets. This is a one-roll bet. Example: A $4 bet is placed on the Horn area. The next roll is a 2 (1-1). The bet would pay 30 to 1 for the $1 that was on the 2 and the other 3 $1 bets (3, 11, 12) would lose. TAKING ODDS ON A BET: You can take odds on four different bets; the Pass Line, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- the Don't Pass Line, a Come Bet and a Don't Come Bet. This game allows both single and double odds as this is now common practice in most casinos. Recently, some casinos have been offering up to 12 times odds. However, this is rare so it was not incorporated into this game. Odds are the best bet at a craps table as it gives the casino almost no advantage. Odds may be taken at anytime and also removed at anytime. For example, if you had a $2 pass line bet and the point was a 10. If you won without odds, you would receive even money or $2 plus your original $2 bet. Single odds on this bet would be $2. Double odds would be $4. With Single odds, the payoff on a win would be $2 for your line bet plus $4 for your odds bet ( odds payoff on a 10 is 2 to 1). With Double odds, the payoff would be $8 for the odds bet. The house advantage on a line bet is less than 1%. Point Number Odds Payoff Amount for odds 4 or 10 2 to 1 Same as Line Bet 5 or 9 3 to 2 Next even amount of chips 6 or 8 6 to 5 Closest multiple of 5 chips This program automatically calculates the amount needed for single and double odds. It is strongly advised that you take odds whenever possible and, if you can afford it, double odds. PLAYING THIS GAME: Now that you are thoroughly confused by the preceding dribble let's get to the good stuff. First things first, load up the game and roam around for a little while. Use the cursor keys (or a mouse, but I'll get to that later) and move the cursor around the board. Notice that whenever you run over either a part of the board or one of the commands at the bottom a description is shown in the white bar. (I'll call this area the 'command line'). When ever the cursor is in a legal betting area, the command line will tell you so. Spend a minute or two getting use to where the different bets are located on the playing field. If you get a little tired at the speed of the cursor, try the "Turbo" cursor: hold down the <Shift> key while using one of the arrow keys. The cursor will move much faster. MAKING A BET: OK, you're board with just moving the cursor around. move the cursor to the chip area (this is located near the lower right of the screen). Notice that you don't have to be directly on the chip for the command line to tell you what it is. Move to the $2 chip area and press the '+' key. Nothing happened? Hit it again (Whoa!) Now what happened? Well, first the diamond chip symbol changed into a 1, then the number of $2 chips was decremented by one, and last the current bet amount went up by $2. Keep hitting the '+' key. Notice what happens when you have 10 chips. The number of chips turns to a '*' and then it won't let you add any more. Now hit the '-' key, yes you guessed it, it decrements the bet. When you are happy with the bet ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- amount, hit the 'enter' key. This locks the bet amount in. If you decide that you don't want to use $2 chips, use the '-' key until the bet is 0 and then hit enter. After you have hit enter with your bet amount, the cursor is replaced by the bet amount. Now move your bet with the cursor keys to the area you want to bet it. When satisfied with the location, hit the enter key once more. This places the bet and returns the normal cursor. If, for some reason, you decide that you don't want to place your bet, you can return the bet to its proper chip area and hit enter. This returns the chips to your chip pile. To roll the dice, hit the spacebar. TO MAKE CHANGE: To change chips from one denomination to another, just pick up the chips from one pile and place them on the pile of chips you wish to change them into. NOTE: the computer checks to make sure you have enough chips before it does anything. For example, you need at least 10 $1 chips to change into a $10 chip. OTHER COMMANDS: The bottom of the screen has six commands. They can be activated by either typing the first letter of the command or by moving the cursor to the word and hitting enter. Quit: I think you can figure this one out by yourself. Noise: Toggles sound on/off. Help: Shows help screen. Odds: Take odds on a bet. Will prompt you for which bet you wish to take odds on. Move the cursor to that bet and hit enter. The command line will then display the amount of money needed for single and double odds. Type either 'S' or 'D' to take odds. (Hit anything else if you don't want to take the odds) After taking odds, the money will automatically be removed from your pile. Single odds will be shown as a superscript 'o' and Double odds will be shown as a superscript '2'. Bet Info: Shows the amount of a bet. If you forget how much those 3 yellow chips are with the double odds, it will tell you. Also, on the bets that have odds, it will allow you to remove the odds if you wish. On certain bets (the place bets, the buy bets and the lay bets) it will allow you to remove the bet if you wish. The prompt will ask you for, 'Info on which Bet?'. Move the cursor on the bet and hit enter. Statistics: The game keeps track of all of the bets that have been made and if they win or lose. This information is written to a file on the disk called CRAPS.STA. The game keeps track of all 40 bets and is designed to give the player an indication of how well he/she has done on the various bets. It is NOT intended to be used to calculate the odds on the bets. If you want to do this, find a good book on Craps. (I've given you most of the odds in this documentation). The only way to accurately calculate the odds of a bet by experimentation is to have ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Las Vegas Style Craps Version 2.0 By Kent Myers & Markus Huoy Page 6 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- a test group of at least one million dice rolls. NOTE: Since most of the numbers in the statistics screen are integers, they are limited to a maximum value of 32767. If any of the numbers reach that, the statistics function will not longer be accurate. However, I'm sure it will take a LONG time for any of the numbers to get that high. If and when they do, all that you have to do is answer (Y)es to the questions about clearing the statistics. Another way the statistics function can be screwed up is by quitting the game with bets still on the table. But think about it, if you were in Las Vegas would you walk away from a table while you still had money on it? No way! PLAYING THIS GAME WITH A MOUSE: This game works best with a mouse. It was designed with the Microsoft Mouse but will work with a variety of other mice. The Logimouse, for instance, uses the same control codes as the MS Mouse. The Mouse Systems mouse has a special driver that allows it to emulate the MS Mouse. Consult your mouse manual to see if it has the capability to emulate the MS Mouse. Most all of the commands can be performed without the keyboard. To make a bet, move to the chip and click-left. This increments the bet. The right button now decrements the bet. When satisfied with the bet, hit any key on the keyboard. Now move to the bet area and click-left again to drop the bet. The right button now rolls the dice. The only things that cannot be performed with the mouse are any Yes/No prompts and the 'S' or 'D' prompt for taking odds.