Bac Bo: Rules, Exact Odds and Where to Play Dice Baccarat

Bac Bo is baccarat played with four dice instead of cards. Evolution launched it in January 2022, calling it a blend of baccarat and Sic Bo, and it has since become one of the most searched live games in the Portuguese-speaking world. The three bets are the ones every baccarat player knows, Player, Banker and Tie, but the arithmetic underneath is different, and simpler: with only 1,296 possible rolls, every chance and every house edge on this page is exact, worked out by us from the published pay table.

How Bac Bo Is Played

A round of Bac Bo is a single roll. Four dice sit in individual automatic shakers recessed into the table, two under the Player label and two under the Banker label. During the betting time all four start to shake. The Player's dice come to rest first, then the Banker's, and the score of each side is the total of its two dice, from 2 to 12. The higher total wins. If the totals match, the round is a tie.

That is the whole game. There is no third card, no drawing table, no commission on Banker wins and nothing for the player to decide after the bets are placed. The dice stopping one at a time is what gives the game its rhythm: the leading side after the first two dice is known before the last two settle.

You can bet on three outcomes:

• Player: the Player total is higher. Pays 1 to 1.
• Banker: the Banker total is higher. Pays 1 to 1.
• Tie: the totals match. The payout depends on the tied total, from 4 to 1 for a 6, 7 or 8 up to 88 to 1 for a 2 or 12.

When the round ties, a Player or Banker bet is not a push. The casino keeps 10% of the stake and returns the other 90%. That one rule is where the house edge on the main bets comes from.

Bac Bo Odds and House Edge, Exactly

Two dice give 36 equally likely results, so four dice give 36 x 36 = 1,296. We listed all of them. Player beats Banker on 575 rolls, Banker beats Player on 575, and the two totals match on 146. Those three counts, with the pay table above, give every figure in this table.

The Player and Banker figures are the same because the game is symmetrical: each side rolls two ordinary dice, so each wins 575 rolls in 1,296, or 44.37%. Both bets would be perfectly fair if a tie were a push. Instead, on the 146 tying rolls the casino keeps a tenth of the stake, and 10% of 11.27% is 1.13%. Evolution publishes a 98.87% return on these bets, which is exactly what that arithmetic gives, so the published pay table and the 90% refund rule agree with each other.

The Tie bet, total by total

The Tie bet is really eleven bets with one stake. The chance of each tied total depends on how many ways two dice make it: one way each for 2 and 12, six ways for 7. The payouts run the other way, so the rare totals are paid close to their true odds and the common ones are not.

The 88 to 1 on a double 1 or double 6 is the number on the advertising, and it is a fair price: the true odds are 1,295 to 1, so the casino keeps almost nothing on those two totals. The cost is in the middle of the table. A tie on 7 happens once in 36 rolls, a tie on 6 or 8 once in about 52, and all three pay 4 to 1. Those three totals alone are 86 of the 146 tying rolls. Add it up and the Tie bet returns 95.52 cents on the dollar, a 4.48% edge: four times the cost of Player or Banker, but less than a third of what baccarat's Tie bet costs.

Bac Bo Against Baccarat

Bac Bo keeps baccarat's layout and loses its asymmetry. In baccarat the drawing rules favor Banker, so Banker wins more often and the casino charges a commission to balance it; in Bac Bo the two sides are identical and the casino charges both of them the same 10% on ties instead.

So a Bac Bo main bet sits between baccarat's two: a little dearer than Banker, a little cheaper than Player. The real difference is the Tie. Baccarat's Tie at 8 to 1 is one of the worst bets on a casino floor; Bac Bo's Tie is merely expensive. If you like betting on ties, Bac Bo is the cheaper place to do it. If you want the lowest cost per round, Player or Banker in Bac Bo at 1.13% is the answer, and it does not matter which.

One more thing changes: pace. A Bac Bo round is over as soon as the fourth die stops, with no cards to deal or squeeze, so you will see more rounds an hour than at a standard baccarat table. The cost per round is small; the cost per hour is the number that matters, and our Responsible Gaming page shows how to work it out.

Where Bac Bo Is Played

Bac Bo found its audience in the Portuguese-speaking world. Over the twelve months to October 2026, Google Trends put the highest relative interest in the game in Angola, Cape Verde, Portugal, Mozambique and Brazil, and Brazil, with a population of more than 200 million, is the largest market for it by volume. Evolution publishes the game page in Brazilian Portuguese, and the casinos that carry it tend to run Portuguese versions of their sites.

For players in Brazil, one caution. Brazil began licensing online betting operators in 2025, and licensed sites use the bet.br address. The casinos linked below are international sites; whether one accepts players from Brazil is set out in its own terms, and we note what each says. Check before you deposit.

Two other casinos on our comparison page also list Bac Bo: Rainbet (Evolution's table; Brazil not restricted) and 21LuckyBet (three Bac Bo titles, but its link serves players in the UK, Ireland, Canada and Finland only).

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