Craps can seem especially threatening for the casino first timer. All those blocks, all those squares, a set of dice, numbers being yelled out in strange phrases, not to mention up to four casino staff managing a single table. It’s enough to scare even the bravest rollers towards games that seem “friendlier” and less daunting like roulette or the reels of a slot machine.

Certainly, the layout of a craps table seems something like a game of pre-adolescent hopscotch: chalked lines, semi-circular tracks, columns and rows of alphanumeric figures in seemingly haphazard sequences, arbitrary font size and text and colour combinations, different lines and bars, a Field of numbers (some encircled, some not) a Pass and Don’t Pass, a Come and Don’t Come bar.