Craps Royale: The Ultimate Craps Simulator news & patch notes

This is the biggest update in Craps Royale's history — bigger than v3.0. It comes straight from how you actually use the game: you test betting systems. Until now that meant pen, paper, spreadsheets, and hours of manual rolling. v4.0 ends that. Craps Royale now includes a full visual Strategy Builder — build any betting system out of drag-and-drop blocks, back-test it over hundreds of thousands of rolls, and then hand it the dice and watch it play your real table, hands-free.

✨ New Features

The Strategy Builder — the headline feature, and it's a big one. Open it from the main menu or right from the table:

• Build strategies with blocks — no code, no formulas. Snap together visual blocks like "on each come-out", "when the point is set", and "after each roll", then tell the game what to bet: set the Pass Line, place the inside numbers, press after a hit, regress after a win, hedge with props — anything the table allows. If/then logic, your current bets, the game state, and your bankroll are all available as blocks. A live checker reads your strategy back in plain English and flags problems before you run it.
• A library of 38 real strategies, ready to load. The systems players actually argue about, organized by category and difficulty: the 3-Point Molly, Iron Cross, 6 & 8 Regression, Martingale, Paroli, D'Alembert, Fibonacci, Oscar's Grind, Labouchère, the 5-Count, the Doey-Don't, dark-side lay systems, hop-bet hedges, and more. Load one, see exactly how it's wired, and reshape it into your own.
• Back-test over up to 200,000 rolls. The simulator runs your strategy on your real table settings — variant, odds multiple, vig, payout rounding, come-out policy, table limits. Use pure random dice, lock in a seed to reproduce the exact same run again, or feed it a predefined roll sequence to stress-test one specific scenario.
• Results you can read like a quant. Net result, return on total wagered, theoretical house edge, EV per roll, max drawdown, peak and low, shooters, points made, seven-outs — plus an interactive bankroll curve where you can zoom, pan, and hover any single roll to see which bets were working and what that throw won or lost.
• Head-to-head mode. Pick a second strategy and the simulator runs both on the same dice — same rolls, same order — and overlays the two bankroll curves. Iron Cross vs. 3-Point Molly, settled once and for all, with zero luck excuses.
• Run it LIVE on the table. Arm any strategy on the real board and watch it play: it places and clears the actual chips, rolls the dice, presses and regresses exactly as designed — while you watch the felt, your balance, and a running event log. Stop it anytime, or swap strategies mid-session.
• A guided tutorial for the builder itself. Three hands-on lessons walk you through building your first strategy, simulating it, and reading the results — right inside the builder.
• Save, export & share. Save unlimited strategies of your own, attach notes to each one, and export/import them as text — trade systems with other players.

🎨 Improvements & Polish

• The builder ships with a clean ribbon toolbar (New, Library, Save, Notes, Example, Tutorial, Copy/Paste, Export/Import) and a draggable Notes panel, so your reasoning stays attached to your strategy.
• The table now shows an instant loading skeleton while the felt builds, instead of a blank screen on slower machines.
• New store screenshots show the builder in action — check them out on the store page.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Session-end balance sweep: when a session ends, any removable bets still on the felt are returned to your balance first — so your Final Balance reflects what you'd actually walk away with, not just what was in the rack.
• The dice-distribution tooltip in Stats is now always available (it was previously hidden in some modes).

The Strategy Builder is the tool we always wanted craps to have — and it directly shapes where the game goes next, so tell us what you build with it. Good luck at the table! 🎲 — JAXBIRD LLC / TheVegasLab.com

Update v3.0.20260611 — Your Interactive Session Report & Casino-Grade Stats

This is our biggest update yet, and it comes straight from your feedback: you wanted to really see and understand your play. Now you can. v3.0 turns Craps Royale into your own personal pit boss — track every roll, every dollar, and exactly what a casino would rate you at.

✨ New Features

Interactive Session Report — The headline feature. Open a full, interactive report right from the Stats screen (just hit VIEW REPORT):

• Interactive bankroll curve — zoom in, see your drawdowns, your at-risk band, and Dice-Lab shading at a glance.
• Round-by-round point cycles — click any round or any point to expand it and inspect every single roll that happened inside it.
• Full stats dashboard plus per-roll dice and exactly which bets won and lost.
• Download a standalone HTML copy to keep or share — it opens in any browser, no internet needed.

Casino Comp Stats — get rated like you're in the pit. A brand-new stats section that shows your play the way a real casino measures it:

• Theoretical Loss ("theo") — the number casinos actually rate players by. It's each resolved bet × its true mathematical house edge: the expected cost of your action, not just your actual result.
• Avg Bet / Roll, Estimated Casino Time, Theoretical / Hour, and Avg House Edge for the whole session.
• A PACE selector to model different casino speeds — Full Table (~60/hr), Live Typical (~80/hr), or Bubble / eCasino (~120/hr) — so your "casino time" and comp estimate match the kind of table you'd actually be playing.

Bankroll curve in Stats — A quick visual of your session's highs and lows now lives right in the Stats popup, with your Balance High and Balance Low called out.

🎨 Improvements & Polish

• Rebuilt Stats screen — cleaner sections (Session Performance, Casino Comp Stats, Dice & Table), the Last 50 rolls at a glance, and clearer money labels so gross Wagered/Returned never get confused with your true Net P&L.
• Smarter edge math — the old "House Edge (effective)" card (which only showed realized hold, not your real edge) has been replaced with the far more meaningful Avg Bet / Roll and a true Avg House Edge.

🐞 Bug Fixes & Balance

• Side bets now follow standard casino rules (reported by the community — thank you!). All Tall, All Small, All, the Repeaters, and the Fire Bet previously only ended on a seven-out. They now correctly resolve on any 7 — including a come-out 7 — exactly matching real casino & eCasino rules and each bet's own description. Trackers clear on every 7 and the bets re-open for the next 7-to-7 sequence. Tooltips updated to spell out the rule.

Keep the feedback coming — it directly shapes these updates. Good luck at the table! 🎲 — JAXBIRD LLC / TheVegasLab.com

Update v2.0.20260607 — Roll History, Fairer Commissions & a Cleaner Table

Thanks to everyone sending feedback and reports — this update is built largely on what you asked for. Here's what's new at the table.

✨ New Features

• Roll History Bar — A sleek strip beneath the board shows your recent rolls (the two dice + total), newest on the left, the latest highlighted. It even marks come-out rolls with a puck icon. Don't want it? Toggle it off in Settings.
• Space Background toggle — Prefer a clean look over the animated starfield? Switch the backdrop to a rich, felt-colored gradient that matches your table — right below the Table Color options.
• Optional Small/Big bets — The SMALL and BIG fields are now part of the Side Bets toggle, so you can keep a classic, authentic layout or switch them on for extra action.
• More Games — A new button on the main menu to browse the rest of the JAXBIRD LLC library.
• Quick Exit — A tidy exit button added to the main menu.
• Fresh new game icon and splash screen.

🎨 Improvements & Polish

• Your table, your colors — The WIN CONDITIONS panel and the new Roll History Bar now follow your chosen felt color (green, blue, purple, red, and more) for a unified look.
• Restyled bottom bar — A glossier, more premium control bar.
• Live commission readout — When vig is charged up front, a clear VIG total now sits right next to your Balance and On-Table amounts.
• Win celebration repositioned so it no longer crowds the bottom of the screen.

🐞 Bug Fixes

• Buy/Lay commission fix (reported by the community — thank you!) — The 5% vig was being calculated per chip instead of on your total bet, which overcharged stacked bets. It now correctly charges 5% of the full wager, rounded the casino-standard way (down to the dollar, $1 minimum). Building a $20 Buy from any mix of chips now costs the right $1 — not $2, $4, or $20.
• Doubling & repeating Buy/Lay bets now applies the correct commission too.
• Dice Shooter — Fixed an issue where rolling again during the dice fade-out could make the next roll's dice briefly disappear.

Keep the feedback coming — it directly shapes these updates. Good luck at the table! 🎲 — JAXBIRD LLC / TheVegasLab.com

Craps Royale — Update 2.0.2026.06.02 is Live!

Drag-and-drop betting, true casino come-out rules, and a smarter, cleaner table.

Fresh off The Academy update, we kept going. This release is all about making the table feel more like the real thing and more comfortable to play — straight from the things you've been telling us in feedback.

What's New

Drag-and-Drop Betting

Place your chips the natural way. Grab a chip and drag it right onto any bet on the table. Changed your mind? Just drag the chip back off the table to take it down. Prefer the old way? Clicking to bet still works exactly as before. It's your table, your call.

Real Casino Come-Out Rules

By default, your Place and Buy bets now ride OFF during the come-out roll and automatically come back ON the moment a point is set — exactly how it works on a live casino table. Want your bets working at all times instead? Flip it off in the settings. You can also choose how your Come and Don't Come odds behave on the come-out: Live Casino style (you're in control) or Electronic style (locked off, just like a Bubble Craps machine).

Every Bet Explains Itself

Wondering why a bet is grayed out? Hover over it and the game now tells you exactly why — like a Come bet that's waiting for a point to be set. No more guessing.

A Cleaner, Sharper Table

We redesigned the bottom toolbar to be bigger, bolder, and easier to read, and we fixed the side-bet displays so they look crisp and properly sized on 4K monitors.

Payout Accuracy Fixes

We went through the math with a fine-tooth comb and tightened up several payouts to match real-casino convention — including the Fire Bet, All / Tall / Small, Repeaters, and Come / Don't Come odds when bets are off on the come-out. If you track your sessions in the log, you'll see the numbers line up exactly the way they should.

A note from us

Little things add up at the table. Dragging your own chips, watching the come-out behave like the real deal, knowing exactly why a bet is or isn't available — these are the touches that make Craps Royale feel less like a simulator and more like sitting down at your favorite table. Roll well, shooters. The next one could be the big one. — TheVegasLab

Craps Royale — Update 2.0.2026.05.14 is Live!

Now with The Academy: 22 hands-on tutorials right at the table.

This is the biggest update Craps Royale has ever shipped. After watching players experiment in Dice Lab, comb through session logs, and ask the same great questions in feedback — "why does the Iron Cross actually fail?", "how do you press without giving it all back?", "what's the math behind a Don't bet?" — we built the feature you've been asking for.

THE ACADEMY — 22 In-Game Tutorials

A complete learn-by-doing system, right at the table. No videos. No external links. No reading a wall of text. You sit down at a real interactive table, the teaching panel guides you through each step, and you place the bets yourself. The dice are scripted to the lesson, so every result is the one that proves the point.

Tutorials included:

• Fundamentals — Craps Basics · Free Odds · Don't Pass · Place 6 & 8 · The Field · Come & Don't Come · The Big 6/8 Trap
• Strategy — Iron Cross · Martingale · Pressing · Hardways · Hedging · Bankroll & Discipline · 3-Point Molly · Buy & Lay · Regression · 5-Count · Inside Numbers · Doey-Don't · Dark-Side System
• Side Bets — Fire Bet & All/Tall/Small · Proposition Bets

Each tutorial is filtered by category and difficulty, takes 75 to 120 seconds, and uses your real chip stack — so you'll feel the win, feel the loss, and feel why the math works the way it does. Browse the full tutorial library from the start screen. Mix and match as you like. Replay any of them anytime.

Also in 2.0

Quality-of-life and polish across the whole game:

• Smoother in-game audio handling — no more stray rattles when the tab is in the background
• Refined chip travel and Come-bet motion
• Tighter modal stacking and overlay layering
• Hardened persistence — saves and master preferences load reliably across builds
• Tooltip pass — every clickable element now explains itself
• Many small math fixes on Horn, Whirl, C&E and Buy/Lay payouts (matched to real-casino convention)

A note from us

Craps Royale started as a simulator for people who wanted to understand the math behind the game. The Academy is the natural next step — a place to actually learn it, one short table session at a time. We hope it teaches you something the next time you sit down at a real table — or saves you from a bet you'd have regretted. Roll well, shooters. The next one could be the big one. — TheVegasLab

Craps Royale — Update 1.5.2026.05.04 is Live!

Roll into the new update with fresh ways to play and personalize your table. We've packed this release with the most-requested features from the community, plus a handful of polish under the hood.

What's New

Side Bets

The action just got bigger. New side bets are now available at the table, giving you more ways to chase big payouts on every roll. Whether you're a conservative shooter or a high-roller looking for those long-shot hits, the expanded bet menu opens up brand new strategies. Place them, watch the dice fly, and see if luck is on your side.

Felt Customization

Make the table truly yours. Choose from a selection of new felt designs to set the mood for your session — classic Vegas green, deep midnight, rich burgundy, and more. Switch it up any time from the settings menu and play on a layout that matches your style.

Dice Customization

Your dice, your way. Pick from multiple new dice styles and colors to roll in style. Whether you want sleek and modern or bold and flashy, the new dice options let you bring some personality to every shoot.

Minor Updates

Various bug fixes and stability improvements UI polish and visual refinements Performance tweaks for a smoother experience at the table Small balance and quality-of-life adjustments based on player feedback Thank you to everyone who has been playing, sharing feedback, and supporting Craps Royale. This update is for you. Jump back in, customize your table, throw down some side bets, and let the dice decide. Good luck, shooters — and as always, the next roll could be the big one. — TheVegasLab