BG678 K3 Dice Rules: Totals, Triples and Pairs

K3 is the dice game in the Lottery row, sitting next to Win Go, Racing and 5D. Each round rolls three dice on a timer, and you bet on what they will show: the total, or a pattern such as a pair or three of a kind. The maths of three dice is fixed and easy to check, which makes K3 a good game to understand properly before you stake anything.

How a round runs

Like Win Go, K3 counts down. You place bets while the timer is open, betting closes just before the end, and the three dice are shown when it reaches zero. The next round begins immediately. If the game offers more than one round length, each length is a separate stream of rounds.

Betting on the total

Three dice add up to anything from 3 to 18. The totals in the middle come up far more often than the ones at the edges, because more combinations make them.

Total	Ways to roll it (of 216)	Rough chance
3 or 18	1	about 0.5%
4 or 17	3	about 1.4%
5 or 16	6	about 2.8%
6 or 15	10	about 4.6%
7 or 14	15	about 6.9%
8 or 13	21	about 9.7%
9 or 12	25	about 11.6%
10 or 11	27	12.5%

Three dice have 216 possible outcomes in total, so these figures come straight from counting. When the game pays a high multiplier on 3 or 18, it is because those totals turn up roughly once in 216 rounds. Compare the multiplier on the bet slip with this table and you will see the house edge in every row.

Many dice games also offer Big or Small and Odd or Even on the total. Where K3 has them, the rules screen gives the exact ranges, including how triples are treated. Read that line, since a triple often counts as a loss on these bets.

Betting on patterns

Patterns ignore the total and look at how the dice match.

• Three of a kind (a triple). All three dice show the same face. Any triple happens 6 times in 216, about once every 36 rounds. A specific triple, say three fives, happens once in 216.
• A pair. Exactly two dice match. This covers 90 of the 216 outcomes.
• All different. No two dice match, which covers the remaining 120.

The names and exact options on the K3 betting panel may differ from these labels. Use the rules screen for the game's own terms and payouts, and use the counts above to judge whether a payout is generous or thin.

Why the history chart does not help

Dice have no memory. A run of high totals does not make a low one more likely next round. The K3 history and trend charts are a record of the past, nothing more. If you notice yourself waiting for a total because it has "not come for a while", stop for a few minutes.

A sensible way to try K3

1. Read the rules screen once, start to finish.
2. Play a few rounds at the lowest stake on a single, simple bet.
3. Check the multiplier against the table above before trying a pattern bet.
4. Stop at the round count or amount you set before you opened the game.

K3 sits alongside Win Go and 5D in the Lottery row, and our games list describes the rest. Like every game in the lobby, it is real-money gambling for adults aged 18 and over, and it does not pay a living.