Weird and Interesting Facts about Casino Chips — Chips don't have a standard color or denomination.
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Learn why every Vegas casino has unique chips, how they prevent fraud, and surprising rules about finding chips on the floor.
Vegas Authority
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3. Chips don't have a standard color or denomination.
A control board can sometimes regulate the colors, but they are all different. The numbers are not the same, and they all have different color combinations. People believed that chips of a particular color were more valuable than other chips of a different color. This technique worked to some extent because the chip designs weren't so different, making it easy to group similar-looking chips.
