Snake Eyes Gambling Term
Two is 'snake eyes', because the two ones that compose it look like a pair of small, beady eyes. During actual play, more common terms are 'two craps two' during the comeout roll because the pass line bet is lost on a comeout crap roll and/or because a bet on any craps would win.
- This new film teams him with Academy Award-winner Nicolas Cage and critically acclaimed actor Gary Sinise. The title 'Snake Eyes' is based on a gambling term (two single dots turning up on a set of.
- The origin of the term, of course, comes from diced based games, and dates back as far as ancient Rome. The modern term snake eyes has been used since about the 1930s. So why does the term exist? The likelihood of rolling two ones with a pair of dice is extremely low, one in thirty six, and normally has a negative effect for the dice roller.
Snake eyes, also known as snail eyes, is a term used to refer to the appearance of the facial nerve on coronal CT within its canal in the petrous temporal bone as the tympanic segment doubles back next to the labyrinthine segment. Anteriorly, these two segments converge at the geniculate ganglion.
Snake Eyes Gambling Term Definition
Snake eyes refers to the appearance of dice when two 'ones' or 'pips' are rolled (see picture). Snail eyes refers to these segments located superolaterally to the cochlea, which looks like a snail's shell.
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- 3. Juliano AF, Ginat DT, Moonis G. Imaging review of the temporal bone: part I. Anatomy and inflammatory and neoplastic processes. (2013) Radiology. 269 (1): 17-33. doi:10.1148/radiol.13120733 - Pubmed
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