Sic Bo Online in Australia (2026): Every Bet’s House Edge at Australian Pay Tables, and Which Casinos Have the Game
Sic bo is three dice under a cup and a betting layout of roughly fifty boxes. It has one honest pair of bets, Small and Big, which pay even money and cost 2.78%, and forty-odd bets that cost between 7% and 30%. Online, the game exists in two forms: a random-number table from the pokie studios, and a live-dealer table (Evolution’s Super Sic Bo, Pragmatic Play’s Mega Sic Bo) whose multipliers change the edge on every roll. Among the casinos we review it sits in the lobbies of the Novatrix brands and the Wolf Winner family, usually as the live version; Fair Go, Ozwin and PlayCroco showed none, while Lucky Tiger and Rich Palms name the game on their pages. This page gives the edge of every bet at the pay table used in Australian casinos, the two live variants, and the operator list.
How the game works
Three dice are shaken and revealed. Every bet is a proposition about the result: the total (4 to 17, since 3 and 18 are triples and treated separately), whether the total is Small (4–10) or Big (11–17), whether a chosen number appears on one, two or three dice, whether any triple or a specific triple lands, or whether two chosen numbers both appear. There is no decision after the bet, no dealer hand and no strategy beyond bet selection; the game is roulette with dice, and the pay table is the whole story. Online tables use a random number generator certified by the studio; live tables use a mechanical shaker on camera, with the result read by optical recognition.
Every bet and its house edge
Pay tables differ by market. The figures below are the “Australian” pays that casino-floor tables in Australia use and that most online RNG versions copy; the Macau and Atlantic City pays, where they differ, are noted because some online tables use them.
| Bet | Wins when | Pays (AU table) | House edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small / Big | Total 4–10 / 11–17, no triple | 1 to 1 | 2.78% |
| Total 4 or 17 | Exact total | 62 to 1 (Macau 50, AC 60) | 12.5% (Macau 29.2%) |
| Total 5 or 16 | Exact total | 31 to 1 (Macau 18, AC 30) | 11.1% (Macau 47.2%) |
| Total 6 or 15 | Exact total | 18 to 1 (Macau 14, AC 17) | 12.0% (Macau 30.6%) |
| Total 7 or 14 | Exact total | 12 to 1 | 9.7% |
| Total 8 or 13 | Exact total | 8 to 1 | 12.5% |
| Total 9 or 12 | Exact total | 7 to 1 (Macau, AC 6) | 7.4% (Macau 19.0%) |
| Total 10 or 11 | Exact total | 6 to 1 | 12.5% |
| Double (specific pair) | At least two dice show the number | 11 to 1 (Macau 8, AC 10) | 11.1% (Macau 33.3%) |
| Any triple | All three dice match | 30 to 1 (Macau 24) | 13.9% (Macau 30.6%) |
| Specific triple | All three dice show the chosen number | 180 to 1 (Macau 150) | 16.2% (Macau 30.1%) |
| Two-dice combination | Both chosen numbers appear | 5 to 1 | 16.7% |
| Single number | Number on 1 / 2 / 3 dice | 1 / 2 / 3 to 1 | 7.9% |
Two conclusions follow. Small and Big are the only bets in the same class as baccarat or European roulette; everything else costs three to six times as much per dollar. And the pay table matters more than the bet: the same “Total 5” bet costs 11% on an Australian table and 47% on a Macau table, so an online RNG game that prints Macau pays is a different, and much worse, game under the same name. The pays are printed in every game’s help screen; read them before the first bet.
Super Sic Bo and Mega Sic Bo
The live versions from Evolution (Super Sic Bo) and Pragmatic Play (Mega Sic Bo) keep the layout but, before each roll, assign random multipliers of up to 1,000× to some bets, replacing the fixed pay. To fund the multipliers the base pays are cut: Small and Big still pay 1 to 1, but the totals, doubles and triples pay less than the Australian table when no multiplier lands. The studios’ published returns are around 97.2% on Small and Big and between 90% and 96% on the rest, averaged over the multiplier distribution; on any single roll without a multiplier the edge on a total bet is higher than the table above. Pragmatic’s Sic Bo Dragons is a themed RNG table with the standard pays. For a player who wants the lowest edge, the answer is the same on every version: Small or Big, and nothing else.
Where it is in the lobbies
| Casino | Sic bo in the lobby (19 Sep 2026) |
|---|---|
| Golden Crown | Not found in the lobby |
| King Billy | Not found in the lobby |
| PlayAmo | Not found in the lobby |
| Woo | Evolution Super Sic Bo, Emperor Sic Bo, First Person Super Sic Bo; Pragmatic Mega Sic Bo |
| CasinoChan | Not found in the lobby |
| Casinonic | Sic Bo (live) |
| Ricky | Sic Bo (live) |
| Dundee Slots | Sic Bo (live) |
| Queen Spins | Sic Bo (live) |
| Spinago | Not found in the lobby |
| FastPay | Not found in the lobby |
| BitStarz | Not found in the lobby |
| Bizzo | Not found in the lobby |
| National | Not found in the lobby |
| Hell Spin | Lobby did not open on the day |
| Wolf Winner | Pragmatic Mega Sic Bo, Sic Bo Dragons, Sic Bo |
| King Johnnie | Mega Sic Bo, Sic Bo Dragons, Sic Bo |
| Jackpot Jill | Not found in the lobby |
| Fair Go | Not found in the lobby |
| Ozwin | Not found in the lobby |
| PlayCroco | Not found in the lobby |
| Grand Rush | Not found in the lobby |
| Lucky Tiger | “Sic Bo” named on the site’s game pages |
| Rich Palms | “Sic Bo” named on the site’s game pages |
| Shazam | Not found in the lobby |
| Ignition | Not found in the lobby |
| Casino Mate | Not found in the lobby |
| Rocket | Not found in the lobby |
| Kings Chance | Not found in the lobby |
| Lucky Dreams | Not found in the lobby |
The pattern is the platform’s. The Novatrix brands and the Wolf Winner family draw on Evolution and Pragmatic Play and list the live tables; Fair Go, Ozwin and PlayCroco showed no sic bo table; Lucky Tiger and Rich Palms name the game on their pages but we could not see a table without an account; Ignition, BitStarz, Golden Crown and Casino Mate did not show one on the day. Where a lobby is listed as “not found” the game may exist under a search we did not trigger; we report what a visitor sees without logging in.
Sic bo and bonuses
Sic bo is a table game for bonus purposes, and table games contribute little or nothing to wagering: 5% at BitStarz, 50% or less at most others, and at some operators zero. Betting Small and Big to grind a bonus is also the textbook example of the “low-risk wagering” that bonus terms prohibit; the Novatrix brands list switching to low-variance games after a win as promotion abuse. Play sic bo with deposited money and no bonus active, or accept that it will not move the requirement. Our bonus guide lists the contribution tables; no wagering casinos explains why a deposit without a bonus is the clean option.
FAQ
What is the best bet in sic bo?
Small or Big, at 2.78% house edge. Every other bet costs 7% or more, and on Macau-style pay tables the specific totals cost up to 47%.
Is sic bo the same as craps?
No. Craps uses two dice, a shooter and a multi-roll sequence with bets that have no house edge (free odds). Sic bo is a single roll of three dice and every bet carries an edge. Our craps page covers the difference.
Can I play sic bo online for real money in Australia?
The game is in the lobbies of the Novatrix brands and the Wolf Winner family, usually as Evolution’s or Pragmatic Play’s live table. No online casino is licensed in Australia; the law is set out in our guide to the Interactive Gambling Act.
Is there a sic bo strategy?
Only bet selection. There are no decisions after the bet and no way to change the odds of three dice; systems that vary the stake change the variance, not the edge.
Does sic bo count towards a casino bonus?
Barely. Table games contribute 0–50% to wagering depending on the operator, and low-variance betting during a bonus is listed as abuse in several rulebooks.
Sources and method
Lobby facts were read on 19 September 2026 by rendering the public game lobbies of 30 operators through an Australian IP address, without logging in; a game listed as “not found” means it did not appear in the lobby or its table-game section on that day. House-edge figures are calculated from the pay tables shown and cross-checked against the Wizard of Odds sic bo analysis, which publishes the Macau, Atlantic City and Australian pays. Live-game return figures are the studios’ published averages. We earn a commission when readers sign up through links on this site; it did not decide what is written here.
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