Sport: Craps Manual

Don't cheat yourself at craps—use the correct odds. This is the advice of John Scarne, professional magician and gambling authority for Yank magazine, who worked out the mathematics of the armed forces' No. 1 sport. By last week he had sent copies of the odds (printed on cards small enough to paste into helmets) to more than 2,000,000 servicemen. Scarne's table:

Against Passing

6 to 5 (30¢ to 25¢) against 6 or 8 3 to 2 (15¢ to 10¢) against 5 or 9 2 to 1 (10¢ to 5¢) against 4 or 10...

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