Snake eyes possible roll, and will often be a loser in many dice games, such as craps, the term has been employed in a more general usage as a reference to bad luck. In some board games, such as "Monopoly", house rules may decide that this roll earns the player a bonus due to it being rare and otherwise disadvantageous. The odds of rolling snake eyes on two six-sided dice are 1-in-36 (1/6 * 1/6). Snake eyes In gambling in general and the game of craps in particular, snake eyes is the outcome of rolling the dice in a game and getting
Floating craps craps game. In the 1950s and 1960s The Sands Hotel in Las Vegas had a craps table that floated in the swimming pool, as a joke reference to the notoriety of the term. Floating craps Floating craps is an illegal operation of the dice game craps. The term "floating" refers to the practice of the game's operators using portable tables and equipment to quickly move the game from location to location to stay ahead of the law enforcement authorities. The term may have originated in the 1930s when Benny Binion (later known for founding the downtown Las Vegas hotel Binions)