Sic Bo Deluxe by Playtech

Playtech have become a major influence on live casino games with their Quantum series. These massively successful titles follow a simple principle – they take a well-known casino game and throw in some multipliers. This is the Sic Bo Deluxe game in a nutshell. In fact, it’s a bit strange that they haven’t chosen to name it as part of the Quantum series.

In practice, the only difference is thematic. Sic Bo Deluxe presents players with colorful, vaguely Asian-themed sets. However, the sets, presenters, and interface overlay all boast the high production quality we’ve come to expect from Playtech.

As a live game, Playtech Six Bo Deluxe is streamed from a studio in Riga, Latvia. The presenter will run the die shaker every 20 seconds or so, which is your timeframe for placing bets. Most other game mechanics are the usual Sic Bo fare. To the uninitiated – this means that you’re trying to predict the outcome of a 3-die roll.

The only major difference Sic Bo Deluxe has to any other game of Sic Bo are the multipliers. Essentially, 6 random multipliers are randomly distributed around the bet table before each round. Pretty much any basic Sic Bo wager can be affected this way. If a player chooses to bet on a multiplied wager, their returns will be increased if they win.

These multipliers can go all the way up to 1000x, which can seriously impact your profits. As such, the multiplier is likely the most interesting of Six Bo Deluxe features.

So if this game is just Sic Bo with multipliers, doesn’t that make it straight-up better than the competition? Well, it’s not that simple. As our Sic Bo Deluxe review has revealed, some of the odds have been adjusted to account for the multipliers. Simply put, some wagers have longer odds than in standard Sic Bo.

Specifically, these are generally the riskier bets on the table. For instance, Small/Big offers the typical returns of 1:1. However, specific doubles only give base returns of 5:1, as opposed to the standard 10:1. That said, the multipliers can bring these odds up to 24:1 – which is the whole idea. You should keep in mind that players are heavily incentivised to chase multipliers as the optimal Sic Bo Deluxe strategy.

The only betting type missing from this release is odds/evens. Bets such as Totals or Specific Combinations are placed on separate tables to the left.

As the game’s main selling point, the multipliers are a mixed bag. First of all, they cannot affect smaller bets like Small/Big. They also push the overall RTP rate of the game down to around 95.00%. If you’re specifically looking to win Sic bo Deluxe for real money, you might be better off with standard Sic Bo.

That said, this game is expertly crafted on a technical level. In typical Playtech fashion, features such as settings and the cashier are placed on the left-hand menu. This avoids cluttering up the screen, which further improves the visual appeal of this game.

Sic Bo Deluxe also keeps track of the past 10 die roll results. Though this shouldn’t be used to affect your next bet, it’s handy for keeping track of the multipliers.