Rob you are mistaken. You do not have to hit the pyramids. The way craps is played the rule is the dice must only hit the back wall. There is space below and above the pyramids on the back wall. Of course it makes more sense to hit the space below the pyramids than to aim for the flat space above the pyramids.

I have never been at a table where a dealer said the shooter must hit the pyramids.

I was surprised on my last visit to Caesars when a floorman said to a shooter that the dice must get three-quarters of the way down the table. Until then I had only heard that they want the shooter to get the dice "to the end of the table."

No Rob, no one ever said anyone must hit the pyramids.

By the way, the rules of craps in Nevada as followed by the NGC are in fact unwritten. I've written several articles about that. New Jersey does have published rules about playing craps -- Nevada does not. But a rule requiring hitting the pyramids? In more than 25 years I've never heard that.

You can see the published New Jersey rules here: http://alanbestbuys.com/id322.html