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
Craps introduce his novelty to the local underclass. Fieldhands taught their friends, and deckhands carried the new game up the Mississippi River. Celebrating the popular success of his novelty, de Marigny gave the name craps to a street in his New Orleans real estate development. The central game, called "pass", from the French word for "pace" or "step", has been gradually supplemented over the decades by many companion games which can be played simultaneously. The entire collection of over one hundred separate and independent possible games is called craps. The name "craps" was a Louisiana mispronunciation of the word "crabs", which