The simple answer is class two you play against several other players for a limited set of prizes. In class three you simply play against the casino. This is what the Feds say.

However, a lot of this this has been left to open interpretation by the states. For example, in CA where only class 2 gaming is allowed, craps is played with cards instead of dice. There are several versions of this. Some casinos will have several shoes filled with cards numbered from Ace to 6, a dealer will pull a card from each deck to determine what the outcome of the "roll" will be. In some casinos dice are rolled to determine which cards are to be turned over. In this case the casino places two sets of 6 cards on the table on boxes labeled 1-6. Say the shooter rolls a 5-2, the dealer will turn over the fifth card from one stack and the second card from the 2nd stack and whatever those cards are is the "roll"

In roulette, they simply use a covered, automated roulette wheel, no dealers touch the wheel or the ball.

These games seem to not fit into the the definitions of class two gaming, but it’s possible that they are allowed because the outcome of the game is not determined by a foreign outside object such as dice or a roulette ball.

Personally, the craps games in CA do not interest me at all. They are just a random, slow craps game with no advantage

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