Craps - Miscellaneous

Craps is such a popular game, its terminology is often found as colloquialisms in our language. The terms "on a roll", "crapshoot", "no dice", "crap out", "Snake Eyes" and "do it the hard way" all trace their origins to the game of craps.

As casinos restrict players' options in blackjack, craps is increasing in popularity, as it offers the best odds of all standard casino games based on pure chance.

In the classic crooner song "Luck Be a Lady Tonight," most famously sung by Frank Sinatra, the lyrics, "A lady doesn’t wander all over the room / And blow on some other guys dice," make reference to point of craps etiquette. A lady blowing on the shooter's dice before he rolled was supposed to bring the shooter good luck. It was seen as inappropriate for a lady to blow on the dice of a man other than the one she was with at the casino. Of course, the verse can also be interpreted as a sexual euphemism.

The plot of the musical Guys and Dolls, which is the source of the above-mentioned song, sung by Marlon Brando in the movie, revolves around some illegal games of craps, which "float" from location to location. .

In a seemingly unrelated application of this game, one of the Diehard tests to test for statistical randomness will play several (hundred thousand) craps games using the input data, and analyze the outcomes.

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