Craps is a very exciting game and to get the most out of the game you need to understand the odds of the game and make the very best bets with the lowest house edge. To do this it is bet to know the combinations that can be made with the two dice.

Dice are cubes about three quarters of an inch square. One alone is called a die. Each die has spots called "pips" totaling a number from one to six on each side. If you add the corresponding sides you will get the number seven. The side with six pips will have one pip on the opposite side. Two and five are on corresponding sides as are the three and four. Since each die has six sides and the game is played with two dice, there are 36 (6 x 6) combinations that can be made giving totals of two through twelve. In the following examples I have used two different colored dice to show the combinations more vividly.