PHMAPALAD Hoo Hey How: Rules, Symbols and the Real Odds

Hoo Hey How is a three-dice game with a fish, a prawn, a crab and three other faces, and it is one of the arcade picks on the lobby’s list next to the fish lane. Before you open a table, read the rules and the arithmetic here, then see how it fits among the fishing game online casino lineup. The odds below come from counting the 216 ways three dice can land.

How Hoo Hey How is played

A round has a banker, a mat with six symbols and three dice. The steps run the same way in a street game and in a lobby title.

1. Place a stake on one or more of the six symbols.
2. The three dice are thrown at once.
3. Every die that shows your symbol pays you once, on top of your returned stake.
4. A symbol that appears on no die loses its stake.

Payouts follow the number of matching dice: even money for one, 2 to 1 for two and 3 to 1 for three. A lobby title can use its own payout table, so open the game’s info screen and read it before you bet.

The six symbols on the dice

The saved reference page for the game lists these faces on the classic dice. Variants swap one or two of them, and the lobby’s own title shows its faces on screen.

Each die has six equal faces, so any one symbol has a 1 in 6 chance on a single die. The dice do not remember each other. A fish on the first die tells you nothing about the second.

Hoo Hey How odds for one symbol bet

Three dice make 6 x 6 x 6 = 216 outcomes. Your symbol misses on all three dice in 5 x 5 x 5 = 125 of them. That leaves 216 - 125 = 91 outcomes where it shows at least once, so P(at least one match) = 91/216, about 42.1%.

The 75 comes from 3 choices of which die matches times 5 x 5 for the other two. The 15 is 3 x 5, and the 1 is the three-of-a-kind.

What the odds cost per 100 staked

Multiply each win by its count and subtract the losses. The gains add up to 75 x 1 + 15 x 2 + 1 x 3 = 108 units across 216 outcomes. The losses are 125 units, so the net is (108 - 125) / 216 = -17/216 per unit staked, about -7.87%.

As an example with round numbers, a ₱100 stake loses an average of ₱7.87 per round over many rounds. A single round returns either a loss or a win, never the average. That gap between the long-run average and one result is why a short winning run says nothing about the next roll.

Backing six symbols at once spreads the same edge over six stakes. It does not remove it.

Fish Prawn Crab titles on the PHMAPALAD lobby

The lobby’s game list carries the dice game under the name Fish Prawn Crab. Named titles: JILI Fish Prawn Crab, PG Soft Win Win Fish Prawn Crab and CQ9 Thai Fish Prawn Crab.

1. Search the lobby for the title name and open its info screen.
2. Read the payout table and compare it with the 1 to 1, 2 to 1 and 3 to 1 line above.
3. Check the minimum and maximum stake printed in the game before you place anything.

A table that pays less than those street payouts has a bigger edge than 7.87%. Where it pays more on a three-of-a-kind, the arithmetic above shifts and you can redo it the same way.

For other arithmetic-first pages in this cluster, try the Mines strategy odds page or the keno rules walkthrough.