Figures read 26 October 2026 Bill A06, first printing
Mobile slots: nought off a handset simulation, 72p off a hundred and twenty paid rounds
Open a reel on a phone without signing in and what turns is a simulation, worth nought at the first round and at the hundred and twentieth, which is why the free column underneath carries one entry throughout. Fund the same hundred and twenty rounds at the 15p this publisher works to and £18.00 goes over the reels; the 96 per cent this domain treats as a general return and reads off nothing hands £17.28 over, so the session costs 72p. That leaves the two sides 72p apart, 4.8 rounds at the same stake, and a phone is the device on which a reader is least likely to have noticed either figure.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wanted before a thumb moves | nought | £18.00 | £18.00 |
| Coming back off the reels | nought | £17.28 | minus £17.28 |
| Left owing at the lock screen | nought | nothing | none |
| What it comes to | nought | minus 72p | 72p, or 4.8 rounds |
What the free round comes to nought A handset simulation runs the same build at the same pace and settles at an exact nought because nothing behind it holds money. What the paid round comes to minus 72p Six tenths of a penny a round, a hundred and twenty times over, which is the whole of what the session costs. The gap, in money and in rounds 72p, 4.8 rounds Under five rounds of distance, worked at the stake this publisher assumes and at no figure read off a screen.
Free rounds and what each asks in return
Paid placements are what these addresses are. A registration made through one brings this publisher a fee. Neither quote knows which address is which, and no figure on a bout would differ if it did.
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01Free Play Arena
Betportal
Thirty-five times, three deposits
What the free side comes tonothing150 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 35 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus 60cthe identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds60cthe two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 6 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted150 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated300% over three deposits, ceiling €1,000The face of it€15.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through35 timesthe bonusCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusLargest stake while it runs€5.00capping the stake closes off part of whatever range a lobby offers, and keeps it closed while the credit lastsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €15.00 €15.00 What the staking hands back €14.40 €14.40 none What the play-through takes minus €20.16 nothing owed minus €20.16 What it comes to nothing minus 60c 60c, or 6 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Anjouan, Comoros, by BetPortal Gaming Ltd, with Excite Ultra Media Ltd, under number ALSI-202601040-FI2.
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02Free Play Arena
WinBeast
Five deposits, with a free bet
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10c, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus €2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds€2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10cstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling €1,000, with a €650 free betThe face of it€50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstated€100 a batch of spinsQualifying payment€20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus €50.00 €50.00 What the staking hands back €48.00 €48.00 none What the play-through takes minus €76.80 nothing owed minus €76.80 What it comes to nothing minus €2.00 €2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Curaçao, behind a company the site declines to name.
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03Free Play Arena
EliteSpin
Forty times, five deposits
What the free side comes tonothing500 rounds at 10p, across a play-through of 40 timesWhat the same play costs paid forminus £2.00the identical play behind the reader's own stake, where the only cost is the return itself and no play-through is owedThe distance, in money and in rounds£2.00the two findings subtracted, and the same distance said again as 20 rounds at the stake aboveOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds counted500 roundsWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated50% to 100% over five deposits, each ceiling £1,000The face of it£50.00Rounds priced at the stake this publisher states, in the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownAsked in return
Play-through40 timesthe bonus and the winnings from the spinsCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsstatedFive times the bonusQualifying payment£20.00200 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itOne play priced on both sides of the free line Priced step by step With the offer staking With the reader staking The distance What goes in first nothing minus £50.00 £50.00 What the staking hands back £48.00 £48.00 none What the play-through takes minus £76.80 nothing owed minus £76.80 What it comes to nothing minus £2.00 £2.00, or 20 rounds The play-through asked here is at or past 25 times, the point where the condition costs more than it is laid against, so the free side comes to nothing whatever and the distance is the paid cost by itself.
No licence for Great Britain
Licence held in Costa Rica, by PrimeTier Limited.
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04Free Play Arena
Nightluck
No play-through published
What the free side comes toNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.What the same play costs paid forNOT STRUCKNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.The distance, in money and in roundsUNPRICEDone of the two sides is short of a figure, so nothing is subtracted here and nothing is struckOffered free
How the free side is pricedA count of rounds the offer stakesRounds countedunpublishedWorth of one round10pstated by this publisher, as a quantity of the money this offer is quoted in, no operator having valued a round of its ownCredited as a sumunpublishedCredit waiting on a paymentstated100% of the first deposit, ceiling £300The face of itunpublishedAsked in return
Play-throughunpublishedThe offer page sends a reader to the terms for the multiple and prints no figure itselfCredited towards it100 per centno share has been published anywhere, so every penny counts, that being the kindest available reading of the silencePrices out above25 timesagainst the return assumed here and the share above, any play-through beyond this leaves the free quote worth nothing whateverCeiling on winningsunpublishedQualifying payment£10.00100 rounds at the worth above, and no price here touches itNot struck in full, for want of the count of rounds this offer puts up.
No licence for Great Britain
The site names no jurisdiction for its licence, behind a company the site declines to name.
Terms read 22 October 2026
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Three quantities on a bout were worked out here. Everything else was transcribed. The free quote comes off E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g), where W is whatever play-through the terms demand, g is the proportion of a qualifying stake that counts towards it, RTP is the return assumed of an ordinary slot, and B is whatever is left standing by the time the condition applies. A batch of rounds surrenders part of itself before that point, every round having staked its value and taken the return against it, while a credited sum surrenders nothing at all yet, nothing having gone through the machine. Past break-even the charge exceeds whatever it is charged against, and the free quote settles at nothing rather than below it, nothing being removable beyond what turned up.
The paid side is cost = N × s × (1 − RTP), and it is the figure that makes this bill different from every other ranking in this network. The identical count of rounds at the identical stake, with the reader's own money behind them, hands the margin over once and owes nothing afterwards, there being no credit to turn over and no ceiling to come under. So the two sides are not two readings of one offer. They are one play at two prices, and the distance between them is what the word free is worth on that bout, said as a sum and said again as a count of rounds, because a reader counts in rounds and pays in money.
Read the reckoning downwards and the distance column adds up to the finding. It opens at whatever the paid side has to put in before a round turns, loses whatever the free side gives up that the paid side does not, and closes at the answer, so the bout can be checked without any of it being worked again. A step where both sides move alike leaves the distance reading none, which says the return treats the two the same way there and the distance is made somewhere else.
On a bout whose free half is a demo, both of its own figures are nought and neither one is approximate. Cash has no route out of a demo, so a demo balance showing five hundred pounds settles at nought, and the distance comes out at exactly what buying the rounds costs. Those noughts are findings rather than figures somebody held back. Where a figure really is absent, one of three words takes its place instead. Stated means a condition written out in sentences, which costs something and offers nothing to subtract. Unpublished means a condition written down nowhere whatever. Unpriced means a count published clearly enough, with nothing anywhere putting a value on one of them. None of the three conceals an approximation, and nobody here is credited with a figure they never supplied.
Two figures on every bout belong to this publisher and are stated rather than read. The return both sides are worked at is a general industry figure for an ordinary slot: it is an assumption of this publisher's, it is not read off any title or off anybody who builds one, and a line that spends it says so where it spends it. The worth of one round is the other, and it is spent only where no operator has put a worth on one of its own, nobody publishing a minimum or a maximum for that and no rule setting either. Every bout spending that figure prints whose figure it is. Everything else in a bout was quoted out of an operator's own terms on the day recorded at its foot.
Four duties written by a Great Britain licence come down on the free column of a bout. None of the four comes down on the paid column, because nothing is advanced there for a condition to attach itself to, and that lopsidedness is the argument of the whole bill. Limb 3(a) of Social Responsibility Code 5.1.1 took effect on 19 January 2026 and forbids a holder to ask that bonus funds be played through more than ten times over. Read the play-through term above against that: anything beyond ten times is a term no British holder could have published. Whether a free round counts as bonus funds for the purposes of that limit has not been published in either direction, so this publisher asserts neither reading of it. Statutory Instrument 2025 No. 215, made on 25 February 2025, inserted regulation 5(2), under which no individual may stake more than £5 on a single game cycle of an online slot, falling to £2 under the age of 25. That limit fastens itself to the operating licence rather than to any game, so beyond the licence a lobby offers whatever stake range it pleases with nothing standing over the top of it. Requirement 3C of the remote technical standards obliges a holder to make the rules of a game available before anybody commits money to it. Both quotes above rest on an assumed return rather than a published one, and that duty is the reason an assumption is needed at all out here. Membership of Gamstop Online is a condition of holding the British licence, so the scheme stretches exactly as far as the licence stretches and no further. An offer licensed beyond it sits outside by construction, and a registration somebody has already completed does not reach this offer. Free and confidential help is on the National Gambling Helpline, 0808 8020 133, answering 24 hours a day on every day of the year.
Any condition quoted on a bout appears in the words of whoever published it, and every bout states the day somebody read it. The furthest back of those days on this bill is 22 October 2026. What binds a reader is an operator's own terms, entire, and never a line of this.
1
A reel in a pocket, and the two free things it might mean
Free on a phone covers two arrangements with nothing in common but the word. One is a reel a visitor can open in a browser or an app without registering, where the number on screen behaves properly and leads nowhere. The other is a count of rounds credited to an account after registration, where what the rounds win becomes a balance and a condition stands between the balance and a payment. This bill prices the first against a funded session, then shows what the second would have been worth.
A handset changes none of the arithmetic and a good deal of the psychology, which is why it deserves a page of its own. The build is identical, the stake range is identical, and the share of staking the reels keep is identical. What differs is that a phone session is short, repeated, and interleaved with everything else a person does, so the count of rounds a reader has actually played is the quantity hardest to keep track of and the quantity both sums depend on most.
The three quantities this bill needs are declared in advance. A count of a hundred and twenty rounds, which is roughly eight minutes of unhurried play. A stake of 15p, which is this publisher’s own figure because nothing obliges a lobby to publish what a credited round is worth. And 96 per cent, which this publisher assumes of reels generally and restates as an assumption wherever it is spent rather than reading it off a screen.
2
A hundred and twenty simulated rounds under a thumb
A hundred and twenty rounds at 15p a figure this bill sets carry a face of £18.00. In a simulation the £18.00 is a counter, and the counter is driven by the real maths of the build: features arrive at their built frequency, the pay table is honoured, and a short lucky run will push the number well above where it started. Where the number cannot go is into a bank account, because a simulation has no cashier beneath it and no screen on which a total becomes a request.
So the value of the session is an exact nought and stays there however long a thumb keeps moving. The point is worth insisting on in the mobile case because a phone invites exactly the behaviour that makes a reader forget it: a few rounds at a bus stop, a few more in a queue, a counter that is still sitting where it was left. Hours can accumulate on a simulation without the value of the accumulation moving off nought.
| Time on a simulated reel | Rounds at four seconds each | Value of the session |
|---|---|---|
| 8 minutes | 120 | nothing |
| 1 hour | 900 | nothing |
| 10 hours | 9,000 | nothing |
Ten hours of simulated play is a serious investment of a person’s week and buys a genuine education in a pay table. It leaves the account where it was to the penny. That is the floor this whole section of the site is measured against, and it is the only quantity on the domain that can be printed without an expectation or a spread hanging off it.
3
The same session funded at 15p a round
Sign in, fund the account, and the same hundred and twenty rounds acquire a price. They stake £18.00. At the assumed 96 per cent this domain’s own working figure the reels return £17.28, so 72p is the expected cost of the session. Nothing was advanced by the lobby, so no multiple hangs over the balance, no permitted-title list has to be consulted, and whatever is left when the phone goes back in a pocket can be asked for.
Seventy-two pence divides into something more useful than itself. Six tenths of a penny is what one round costs in expectation at this stake, and that per-round figure is the one worth carrying about, because the count of rounds is the thing that varies on a phone while the stake usually does not. A reader who knows the round price can price any session they like by multiplying, which is a better position than knowing the price of one particular session.
As always the figure is an average rather than a fee. A hundred and twenty rounds is a short run and the spread of outcomes round the 72p is very wide: an ordinary evening finishes several pounds either side of it, and a feature round landing well can leave a reader ahead. The expectation is the right tool for comparing a funded session with a simulated one, which is what this bill does, and the wrong tool for predicting tonight.
4
Turning minutes on a handset into pence
Nobody counts rounds on a phone. People count minutes, so the useful form of the price is a price per minute, and getting there needs one more quantity: how long a round takes. That is the single input to this bill’s arithmetic a simulation does supply accurately, since the build behaves the same whether or not the account has money in it.
| Minutes of play | Rounds at four seconds | Expected cost at 15p |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 75 | 45p |
| 10 | 150 | 90p |
| 30 | 450 | £2.70 |
Four seconds a round is an unhurried thumb, and the table should be read with that in mind: a faster hand doubles every figure in the right-hand column without changing what one round costs. Thirty minutes at £2.70 is the line most readers will find surprising, because half an hour on a phone passes without being noticed as an expenditure at all, while £2.70 spent at a counter would be.
The conversion also explains why the 72p at the top of this bill is a smaller figure than it feels. A hundred and twenty rounds is eight minutes. Eight minutes is a wait for a train. The sum is honest and the session it describes is tiny, and a reader wanting to know what an actual phone habit costs should take the per-round six tenths of a penny and multiply by their own count rather than by this bill’s.
5
Seventy-two pence of distance, and 4.8 rounds of it
Nought on one side, minus 72p on the other, and 72p between them, which at 15p a round is 4.8 rounds. The rounds form of the finding is the one that fits the device: not quite five rounds, about twenty seconds of thumb work, is the entire advantage of taking the session as a simulation rather than funding it.
The distance column of the instrument shows what happens when one of two sides is an exact nought. It opens at the £18.00 a funded session needs and a simulated one does not. It gives back the £17.28 the reels return, which no simulated player can be given. It stays put on the line where neither arrangement owes anything. And it shuts at 72p, equal to the paid side with its sign reversed, since nothing stood opposite to be subtracted.
a hundred and twenty rounds worth nought simulated and minus 72p funded, 72p apart, which is 4.8 further rounds at 15p
6
The same count credited and turned over twelve times
The third arrangement is the one a banner on a phone is usually advertising. A hundred and twenty rounds credited to a registered account, staked by the lobby, with whatever they win arriving as a balance under a condition. The face is £18.00 again and the reels still make £17.28 out of it, and this time the £17.28 is money somebody could lose or keep.
A condition cuts into it, and what remains is E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g). Taking the letters in the order they matter to a reader: B is the credited balance of £17.28, W is the count of turnovers asked before it can leave, RTP is the proportion of staking that comes home, and g measures what part of a staked pound a permitted title may count. Ten is as far as a licensed incentive may go rule sheet, and a tenfold ask at full weight brings E to £10.37, a figure the ceiling produces rather than a cashier. The table runs past it because nothing outside that licence stops at ten.
| Turnovers asked | Staking it needs | Balance surviving |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | £172.80 | £10.37 |
| 12 | £207.36 | £8.99 |
| 20 | £345.60 | £3.46 |
| 25 | £432.00 | nothing |
Two lines deserve a note. At the ceiling, £10.37 survives, which is fourteen times the 72p the funded session cost. Twenty-five turnovers reduces the credited count to the value of the simulation, because the margin collected over £432.00 of staking is £17.28, exactly the balance being turned over. The staking in that row is worth looking at on its own terms: £432.00 across the reels, at four seconds a round and 15p a go, is 2,880 rounds and better than three hours of continuous thumb work.
7
Three duties about what a thumb may be asked to do
Everything in part four assumes a person presses a button once for each round, which is a rule somewhere and nowhere a law of nature. Three British duties shape what a handset may ask of a thumb, and all three are missing from the offshore policy document behind this site’s own sheets.
A lobby serving a reel to a phone without asking anybody to register is lacking any Great Britain licence, so it owes none of what follows. First, a licensed gaming system has to get a fresh decision out of a customer for every round it runs, which leaves no room for play that proceeds on its own, and the one thing the rule lets through is the automatic posting of blinds at poker rule sheet. That duty is load-bearing for part four. A thumb pressing once every four seconds produces 450 rounds in half an hour and £2.70 of expected cost at 15p; a build spinning on its own at one round a second produces 1,800 and £10.80, and the reader has done nothing differently. Second, a licensed product may not push a customer towards chasing a loss or raising a stake, money carried into it may not top itself up without the customer electing that on each occasion, and somebody who has quit may not be coaxed back with a free game rule sheet. The last clause of that is the whole subject of this site read backwards: a free round used to retrieve somebody who had decided to stop is the one use of a free round a British licence names and forbids. Third, from 17 January 2025 onwards a licensee has owed its customers a running view of their own net spend and elapsed time while play continues rule sheet. On a phone that is the most valuable of the three, and part eight is about what its absence costs.
None of this says a handset is a worse place to play than a desk. It says that two of the quantities this bill rests on, the count of rounds and the pace, are governed on a licensed phone and ungoverned elsewhere, while the third and fourth, the stake and the return, are the same everywhere and unpublished in both places. The nought in the free column is untouched by all six of those observations, which is its one advantage.
8
The running figure a phone is least likely to show
The quantity a reader on a handset most needs is the one that is hardest to hold in the head: how much has gone in, net, since the session began. On a desk a person might keep a rough tally. On a phone, across six interruptions and two days, nobody does. That running total is what a British licensee now owes a customer while play continues, and a lobby outside that regime displays whatever it likes, which is usually a balance and nothing else.
A balance is not the same quantity and the difference is the whole problem. A balance says what is left. Net spend says what has gone. The two part company the moment a deposit is made mid-session, and they part company permanently once a win has been re-staked, which on a reel happens within a round or two. A reader looking at a healthy balance has no way of telling whether the session is up or down without the figure the duty would have shown them.
What this bill can offer instead is the multiplication. Six tenths of a penny a round at this stake, 0.6p, multiplied by the rounds actually played. A reader who logs nothing else can log the count, and the count is the one thing a phone could be asked to report without any cooperation from a cashier. That is the honest substitute for a duty that does not apply, and it is arithmetic rather than a figure anybody has to be trusted for.
So the bill closes where it began. A handset simulation is worth nought, exactly and permanently. A hundred and twenty funded rounds cost 72p in expectation at the stake and the return declared here. The distance is 72p, or 4.8 rounds. And the figure that would let a reader check their own position as they go is the one a phone outside the British regime has no obligation whatever to print.
Questions
- Can I play slots free on my phone
- Yes, and what runs is a simulation worth an exact nought. The build, the pace and the stake range are the real ones, but the counter has no account beneath it, so ten hours of it leaves a reader’s balance where it was to the penny.
- What does a session of a hundred and twenty spins cost at 15p
- Seventy-two pence in expectation. The session puts £18.00 over the reels and the assumed return brings £17.28 of it home. The useful form of that is six tenths of a penny a round, which can be multiplied by any count a reader actually plays.
- How much does half an hour on a phone cost
- At four seconds a round and 15p a go, half an hour is 450 rounds and £2.70 of expected cost. A quicker thumb doubles the figure without changing what one round costs, which stays at six tenths of a penny.
- How far apart are the simulated and funded versions
- Seventy-two pence, which is 4.8 rounds at 15p or about twenty seconds of play. Since one side is an exact nought, the distance between them and the price of the funded session are a single quantity.
- Can a mobile slot spin by itself while I watch
- Not under a British licence, which obliges the system to take a fresh decision for every round and lets through only the automatic posting of blinds at poker. Beyond that licence no such duty applies, and a build spinning once a second turns half an hour into 1,800 rounds and £10.80 of expected cost at 15p.
- Would a hundred and twenty credited rounds be worth more
- They would make £17.28 of balance, and the condition decides the rest. Ten turnovers leave £10.37, twelve leave £8.99, twenty leave £3.46, and twenty-five leave nothing, that last figure being the point where a credited count matches the simulation.
- Why can I not see what I have actually spent
- Since 17 January 2025 a British licensee has owed its customers a running view of net spend and elapsed time, and a lobby outside that regime shows what it chooses, usually a balance. A balance says what is left rather than what has gone, and the two diverge as soon as a win is re-staked.