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Crown and Anchor — play the classic British dice game free

Crown and Anchor is the British sailor's three-dice game: six symbols — crown, anchor, heart, diamond, spade, club — a betting cloth, and the familiar 1-2-3 payout. It is the same family as Vietnam's Bau Cua Tom Ca and China's Hoo Hey How, only with naval symbols instead of animals.

Our table swaps the symbols for pictures and the money for virtual points. No deposits, no withdrawals, no cash prizes — the game, the odds and the company stay.

How Crown and Anchor pays

Dice showing your symbolPayout
1 die1× your stake (you get it back plus the same again)
2 dice2× your stake
3 dice3× your stake
0 dicestake lost

Picking one symbol out of six, the chance of missing on all three dice is about 57.9%, and the edge works out at roughly 7.9 points per 100 staked — identical to Hoo Hey How and Bau Cua Tom Ca, because it is the same mathematics.

Where it comes from

Crown and Anchor was a British and Commonwealth pastime — Royal Navy mess decks, fairgrounds and carnivals, and it is still played in the Caribbean, Malta, Canada and parts of the UK. A Flemish cousin is called Anker en Zon, the French version Ancre, Pique et Soleil, and Nepal plays it as Langur Burja.

How to play here

  1. Pick a chip: 100 up to 50k, or “All in”.
  2. Back one or more of the six doors — gourd, crab, shrimp, fish, rooster, deer.
  3. Three dice roll; every die that lands on your door pays you again.

Keep reading

Hoo Hey How (fish-prawn-crab) · Chuck-a-luck in America · Lắc bầu cua ở Việt Nam

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