Part II: Table Game Cheating · Dice & Craps Cheating Methods

Matching Serial Number Scam

How it works

A sophisticated modern approach to dice switching where cheaters obtain or manufacture gaffed dice that exactly match the casino’s legitimate dice - including the casino logo, hot stamp, serial numbers, and all visual identifiers. This requires insider knowledge of the casino’s dice specifications or obtaining actual casino dice to modify. The gaffed dice are then brought into play through any switching technique. Because they appear identical to the legitimate dice, visual inspection alone will not detect the switch.

Where it appears

Casino Craps

On the record

The advent of hot-stamp machines and standardized casino dice made this approach more difficult, but determined cheaters with access to the right equipment can still replicate casino markings.

Published as a detection reference for surveillance, compliance and gaming-operations professionals. Thresholds and tuning are set by the property. Nothing here is instruction — the method is described so it can be recognised.