DICE

Dice is one of the oldest games in the world, with historians unearthing ancient dice from civilisations long-since disappeared. Everyone has played with dice at some time in their lives. Usually we are introduced to dice when playing board games.

Now, there's a cool way to play with dice online, and it's called crypto dice.

All you need is the knowledge of which numbers are most likely to appear, and which are rare occurrences in dice.

This guide will take you through exactly what dice online gaming is really like. You'll learn how to place a bet on dice with crypto, how to work out if you've won and how to boost your winnings with different dice betting strategies.

Dice Game Explained

Dice is a game you can play at Rollspace that offers you the chance of winning big, without having any skills whatsoever! The beauty of this game is that it's available to players of all experience ranges.

The individual dice themselves are small cubes, with dots on each of the six faces of the cube. One face has one dot, another two dots, and all the way up to six dots. When you roll a dice, whichever side of the cube is facing up once it stands still is the numerical value you've rolled.

Betting on dice has always been fun, with people keen to test their luck on a roll.

Crypto Dice Betting Strategies

Betting strategies consist of two primary elements: the choices you make for your bets and the amount you stake per each bet. Let's explore these aspects specifically in the context of the dice game.

Bet selection

In the game of dice, you choose a number and bet whether you will roll over or under that number. What you are really deciding is what probability you want to give your bet of winning.

For example, betting you will roll over 66.66 is the same as betting that you will roll under 33.33, both have a 33.33% chance of winning and payout 3 BNB for every 1 BNB that you bet (2.97 BNB after 1% house edge).

These are the most common numbers/probabilities to bet with:

• 25
• 33.33
• 50
• 66.66
• 75

The number you make your betting strategy around depends on what probability is suited to your staking plan. The staking plan is more important than the number because the 1% house edge is always the same no matter what number you choose.

Patterns in previous rolls

The most common way people choose selections is by identifying patterns in previous rolls and betting on those patterns to break. The classic example is when you see your last 10 rolls have been under 50 and then start betting over 50 because it is due to happen.

Another possibility is if you observe that the last 10 rolls have been alternating over 50, under 50, over 50, under 50 and so on, you could start betting on the rolls to stop alternating. To do this you would bet over 50 after the last roll was over 50 and under 50 after the last roll was under 50 in the hope that over or under would come up twice in a row.

These concepts can be expanded to patterns of any complexity. You might notice the dice have been rolling over 75 twice in a row then under 60 3 times for 20 rolls, which is 4 cycles. Any pattern you find can be bet against, or indeed you could bet on the pattern to continue but given the rolls are random we intuitively expect the pattern to break.

Past random events have no bearing on future random events. However given that the numbers are random, patterns cannot continue indefinitely and they are fun and interesting to find and bet against.

Staking plan

Because all dice bets have the same -1% expected value, dice are all about the staking plan.

The simplest staking plan is to always bet the same amount, if you do that for long enough your results should be in line with the house edge.

Let’s look at some more fun and potentially profitable Dice betting strategies:

Martingale

In a martingale system, you progressively increase your bets during a losing streak. When you do win a bet the profit will cover all previous losses accumulated during the streak and give a profit of the original amount you were going for. This is the classic roulette system of doubling down on red until a red comes up.

Here is an example with dice. Bet 1 BNB to roll over 50.

• If that loses, bet 2 BNB to roll over 50.
• If that loses, bet 4 BNB to roll over 50.
• If that loses, bet 8 BNB to roll over 50.
• and so on, if any of these bets win it will recover all previous losses plus the 1 BNB profit you were going for with the first bet.

Where martingales come unstuck is when you have a very long losing streak and either run out of funds or reach the Rollspace’s maximum bet. In this case, you cannot keep increasing the bets to an amount that would recover the losses. To mitigate this you can use a stop loss where once you have lost a certain amount in a streak you stop betting or change the strategy.

Variation: Martingale to break even

Instead of starting off your bet progression, staking 1, 2, 4, 8 etc. make it 1, 1, 2, 4, 8 etc. This means if your first bet wins you win 1, if any subsequent bet wins you break even but your stakes increase slower and you can withstand a losing streak 1 loss longer.

Variation: Inverse Martingale

Most staking plans also make sense if you do the exact opposite. In the case of the inverse martingale that means increasing your bet size when you are on a winning streak rather than when you are on a losing streak.

The martingale sees you making the biggest bets on your worst losing streaks, wouldn’t you rather make your biggest bets when you are on a winning streak? Set the % of the streak accumulated winnings you wish to stake on each bet.

For example, for each bet, you will risk 50% of the streak winnings. The below table shows your stakes during a 10-roll winning streak on a 50/50 bet.

Because you only bet 50% of your accumulated winnings, even after you lose you keep the other 50%.

Whatever amount your losing bet turns out to be is the same as the amount you win from the streak after that losing bet. So if you lost on bet 6 which had a stake of 2.531 you have kept 2.531 in winnings from the previous winning bets during that streak.

How to Play Dice with Crypto on Rollspace

Using your web3 wallet (Trust Wallet or MetaMask) in-app browser, easily deposit crypto - Blast L2 Network into your account in order to play Dice and other games on Rollspace.

After topping up your wallet with BNB, follow the steps below:

1. Go to Rollspace, Click on "CONNECT" to link your wallet,
2. Select your wallet, then click "SIGN" in the next screen that appears. Access your gaming wallet by clicking on the currency in the top right corner,
3. Specify the BNB amount for deposit in the next screen and click "DEPOSIT".
4. Confirm the transaction by clicking "CONFIRM"

Within moments, your deposited funds will appear in your Rollspace account and you can start playing Dice with crypto.

How to Get Blast ETH to Play Dice:

When you deposit Blast ETH in your gaming wallet to play Dice and other games, you'll automatically earn Blast points! To get Blast ETH to start playing games, follow the steps below:

• Go to blast.io and bridge Ethereum
• Get Ethereum on Blast network
• Deposit Blast into your gaming wallet on Rollspace and play

Further reading on how to play Dice with crypto is available on our blog.