Football Studio Dice: how to play

Football Studio Dice is Evolution’s football-themed dice game. The page calls it “the first-ever dice football game”. It takes the HOME versus AWAY format of Evolution’s card game Football Studio and swaps the cards for dice, borrowing an idea from Bac Bo. Hosts chat about football while four dice decide each “match”.

It is one of the simplest live games to follow, and because it uses dice, the odds can be worked out exactly. This guide covers the rules as Evolution describes them, the “two halves” reveal, our calculation of the odds for every result, and how to approach the draw bets.

How the game works

Evolution’s page sets out the format:

• There are two sides, HOME and AWAY.
• Each side’s score is the sum of two dice.
• The dice are shaken automatically in four individual shakers, two for each side.
• The highest two-dice total wins, giving a HOME or AWAY result.
• If the totals are equal, the result is a DRAW. Evolution says “there are several different payouts depending on the tied dice result, one of them being 80x.”

The two halves

Evolution builds a little drama into the reveal. During betting time, all four dice start shaking at once. The upper HOME and AWAY dice stop first, and the lower HOME and AWAY dice stop a few seconds later. Evolution compares this to a match of two halves: “Even if a player loses the ‘First Half’ dice shake, there’s always the chance to come from behind in the ‘Second Half’ dice shake.”

Only the final totals matter. The first-half dice are just the first part of each team’s score shown early.

A quick example

• First half: HOME’s upper die shows 5, AWAY’s upper die shows 2. HOME leads.
• Second half: HOME’s lower die shows 1 (total 6), AWAY’s lower die shows 6 (total 8).
• Result: AWAY wins 8–6, despite trailing after the first half.

The bets

Bet	Wins when	Payout
HOME	HOME total is higher	Shown in the game’s Help screen
AWAY	AWAY total is higher	Shown in the game’s Help screen
DRAW	Both totals are equal	Several payouts depending on the tied result; one is 80x

Evolution’s public page does not list the HOME and AWAY payouts, how HOME and AWAY bets are settled on a draw, the full draw paytable, or the RTP. Check all of these in the game before you play.

The odds: our calculation

Because each side’s score is just two dice, every result can be calculated exactly. These figures are our own calculations. They assume four fair, independent six-sided dice, as the game description implies.

How likely is each total?

Two dice can land in 36 equally likely ways. The number of ways to make each total:

Total	Ways (out of 36)	Chance
2	1	2.78%
3	2	5.56%
4	3	8.33%
5	4	11.11%
6	5	13.89%
7	6	16.67%
8	5	13.89%
9	4	11.11%
10	3	8.33%
11	2	5.56%
12	1	2.78%

HOME, AWAY and DRAW

With two dice per side there are 36 × 36 = 1,296 equally likely combinations.

• DRAW: add up the squares of the “ways” column: 1 + 4 + 9 + 16 + 25 + 36 + 25 + 16 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 146. So a draw happens in 146 ÷ 1,296 = 11.27% of rounds, about 1 in 9.
• HOME win and AWAY win are equally likely, so each takes half of what is left: (1,296 − 146) ÷ 2 = 575, or 575 ÷ 1,296 = 44.37%.

Which draws are rare?

Evolution says the draw payout depends on the tied dice result. The table below shows how likely each specific tie is. It is our calculation; Evolution does not say on its page which tie pays 80x.

Tied total	Combinations (of 1,296)	Chance
2–2 or 12–12	1 each	0.08% each
3–3 or 11–11	4 each	0.31% each
4–4 or 10–10	9 each	0.69% each
5–5 or 9–9	16 each	1.23% each
6–6 or 8–8	25 each	1.93% each
7–7	36	2.78%

The pattern is what you would expect: ties at the extremes (2–2 and 12–12) are 36 times rarer than a 7–7 tie. In dice games, the biggest payouts usually go to the rarest results, so check the in-game table to see how Evolution prices each tie.

How to approach the bets

• HOME and AWAY are a near coin flip. Each wins 44.37% of the time by our calculation. The remaining 11.27% are draws, and how a HOME or AWAY bet is treated on a draw makes a real difference to its value. That rule is in the game’s Help screen.
• The DRAW bet is a long shot. It wins about 1 round in 9 overall, and the biggest draw payouts need the rarest ties. Keep it small relative to your main bet.
• The first half does not predict the second. The lower dice are independent of the upper dice. Being 5–1 up after the first half still leaves plenty of room for a comeback, as in our example.
• Past results do not matter. Dice have no memory. A run of HOME wins says nothing about the next round.

A budget example

Suppose you bring ₹1,000 and bet ₹50 a round on HOME. Rounds are short, so 20 rounds can pass in a few minutes. By our calculation, in 20 rounds you would expect about 9 HOME wins, 9 AWAY wins and 2 draws on average, but the actual split can vary a lot. Set a round limit as well as a money limit so the session ends when you planned.

Football Studio Dice vs similar games

Game	Provider	Uses	Decides the round
Football Studio Dice	Evolution	4 dice	Higher two-dice total
Bac Bo	Evolution	4 dice	Baccarat-style dice totals
Dragon Tiger	Evolution / others	2 cards	Higher single card
Lightning Dice	Evolution	3 dice	Total of three dice, with multipliers

If you like the head-to-head format with cards instead of dice, try Dragon Tiger or Ezugi’s Cricket War, covered in our Ezugi Indian live games guide.

Playing on mobile

The game is easy to follow on a phone: three main bet spots and four dice.

• Make sure your chip value is right before betting closes.
• A stable connection matters, because the betting window is short and the result comes quickly.
• Live streams use more data than RNG games, so keep an eye on mobile data if you are not on Wi-Fi.

Before you play

Football Studio Dice is quick, social and easy to understand. That also makes it easy to play many rounds without noticing. Set a budget and a time limit, keep DRAW bets small, and read the Help screen for the full paytable first. Our casino reviews show which sites list Evolution among their providers. For support, see our responsible gambling page.