Why we built PointPuck

PointPuck exists because one of us didn't know how to play craps — and got tired of admitting it.

My friends had been telling me for years: learn craps. The table looks terrifying, but the math is friendlier than almost anything else on a casino floor — the pass line gives the house barely 1.4%, and true odds behind it give the house nothing at all. Meanwhile the slot machines I actually played were quietly keeping 8 to 12 cents of every dollar. They were right. I just had no comfortable place to learn: a live table moves fast, the lingo is thick, and nobody wants to be the person asking the stickman what a "yo" is while their chips disappear.

So we built the practice table we wished existed — with my friends checking every rule against how the game actually plays in a casino. No real money, no pressure, no one watching. Just the full layout, real rules, and honest numbers, so that the first time you step up to a real table you already know exactly what you're doing.

Built on real casino math

Every payout on PointPuck follows standard Las Vegas strip rules: 3-4-5x odds, place bets at 9:5, 7:5, and 7:6, field paying double on 2 and triple on 12, buy and lay bets at true odds with a 5% commission charged only on wins, and Bonus Craps at the printed 35-for-1 and 176-for-1 paytables. The probabilities come from where all dice math comes from — the 36 equally likely ways two dice can land — and our payout engine is verified against the published house-edge figures used across the gaming industry with automated tests and multi-million-roll simulations. If our simulator disagreed with the reference numbers by more than a rounding error, the build would fail. Here's exactly how our dice work.

What PointPuck is (and isn't)

PointPuck is a free practice table and a strategy sandbox. It is not gambling: the bankroll is play money, it is never bought, sold, or cashed out, and nothing you do here pays out anything but bragging rights on the leaderboard. When you're comfortable, take what you've learned to a real table — and only bet what you'd happily lose. A word on playing responsibly.