Figures read 26 October 2026 Section B, first printing
A free round with a price on it, and £48.66 of distance bought with £44.00
Seven guides are read under this heading and each one opens at a cashier’s till rather than at a reel. Between them the seven carry 730 rounds, which is a count and never a sum, and at the two stakes worked below those rounds put £79.00 of face across the machines. Taken as rounds somebody else stakes, and with the heaviest staking demand British law permits laid on every balance because not one of these offers prints a demand of its own, the seven come to £45.50. Taken as the identical rounds staked out of a reader’s account, they cost £3.16. The distance is £48.66, and £44.00 has to pass through a till in a reader’s own money before a penny of any of it is available. What that £44.00 is the price of, and what it is not the price of, is the whole of this heading.
| What is being priced | Priced as a free round | Priced as a paid round | The gap between the two |
|---|---|---|---|
| What the paid side puts up first | none | £79.00 | £79.00 |
| What the seven counts stake | £79.00 | £79.00 | none |
| What those rounds hand back | £75.84 | £75.84 | none |
| What ten times of staking takes | £30.34 | nothing owed | minus £30.34 |
| What the seven come to | £45.50 | minus £3.16 | £48.66, no count of rounds |
What the free round comes to £45.50 Seven counts staked by the cashier, each balance then put under the heaviest demand a British licensee may lawfully make. What the paid round comes to minus £3.16 The same counts funded from a reader’s balance, where the margin is the entire price and no demand follows the winnings. The gap, in money and in rounds £48.66, seven rows Seven reported findings added, said in money alone, the distance in rounds being two stakes wearing one unit.
- Deposit 10 get 100 free spins: 10p in at the door, 5.76p back out Found that the admission divides out at a tenth of a pound for each round behind it, which is the dearest quotient under this heading A sum of money £6.16
- Deposit 10 get 300 free spins: 3.33p a round in, 5.76p back Found the widest distance here, three hundred rounds behind the same ten pounds returning £1.85 of distance for each pound of it A sum of money £18.48
- Deposit 5 get 200 free spins: 2.5p of cover, 5.76p a round back Found the cheapest admission of the three and the best return on money handed over, £2.46 of distance for every pound A sum of money £12.32
- £5 deposit casino: what a floor buys, priced against what it does not Found that a threshold buys leave to be present and no rounds whatever, so the five pounds stays balance and belongs in neither price A sum of money £3.08
- £3 minimum deposit casino UK: a minimum here, a licence elsewhere Found two words pulling apart, a threshold that is true and checkable beside a country that describes the reader and not the cashier A sum of money £1.85
- 1 pound deposit casino: ten rounds, 58p given, 4p bought Found the smallest threshold anything here will take and the narrowest finding under this heading, ten rounds deep and no further A sum of money 62p
- Pay by phone casino: a route that moves neither column Found that how the money travels changes no figure at all, ten pounds being ten pounds whichever account it is charged against A sum of money £6.16
- Seven rows added and none left outside, two of them shown to the nearest penny, so the printed figures add to a penny above this £48.66
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 door, a threshold and a route, which are three things £44.00 can be
The £44.00 that has to reach a till before any of this section’s counts arrives is not one kind of payment wearing one name. It is three kinds, and separating them is the first useful thing this heading can do, because the three are worth different amounts and two of them are routinely read as the third.
Three of the seven publish a count beside the payment. Ten pounds against a hundred rounds, ten pounds against three hundred, five pounds against two hundred: in each case both numbers are printed, and dividing one by the other gives a quotient a reader can check before trusting anything else. That is a door. The payment is the price of a stated quantity of rounds, and the stated quantity is what makes the division possible.
Three more publish only the payment. Five pounds, three pounds, one pound, each the least a till will take, and none of them attached to a count of rounds at all. That is a threshold. It buys leave to be present and nothing to play with, and the rounds those three guides price are rounds the reader’s own money reaches at the stake assumed here rather than rounds anybody handed over. The seventh publishes neither a count nor a sum but a way for money to travel, and a way for money to travel moves no figure in either column: ten pounds charged against a telephone account is ten pounds.
So of the £44.00, £25.00 stands behind a published count and £19.00 stands behind a permission. The first is divisible and the second is not, and part six is what that distinction costs a reader who divides anyway.
A count of rounds released by a payment at an offshore till holds no Great Britain licence, so the £44.00 of admission and the £48.66 of distance above both rest on duties that bind nobody behind them. The advertising regulator’s position is that an offer should not be advertised as free where a qualifying stake out of the customer’s pocket is required off the rule sheet, and £44.00 is the measure of that qualifying stake across seven offers. The same regulator’s worked list of conditions significant enough that leaving them out is likely to mislead opens with eligibility and deposit requirements off the rule sheet, which is the £25.00 and the £19.00 above described from the other side. And Gamstop Online reaches an operator because Britain licenses it off the rule sheet, so a signature that shuts every licensed till shuts none of the seven here.
2
Why the money through the till stands in neither of the two prices
A reader looking at £44.00 of payment against £48.66 of distance will be tempted to subtract, and the subtraction is wrong. The £44.00 is not spent. It is moved. It sits in an account as balance, it belongs to whoever put it there, and the only thing that spends it is staking it a round at a time. Every one of the seven guides says so about its own payment and the board above is the seven saying it together.
That is why the instrument at the head of this section has the payment nowhere in it. Read the distance column downwards: it opens at £79.00, which is what the paid side of these counts must stake before a reel turns, loses nothing at the two staking lines because both sides stake the same face at the same return, and loses £30.34 at the line where a staking demand crosses the free balance and crosses nothing on the paid side. The column closes at £48.66 and the £44.00 never appears, because a sum that is still the reader’s is not a cost of either version of the play.
What the payment is, instead, is a condition. It decides whether the free column exists at all rather than how large it is. Nothing in the seven is cheaper or dearer for having a threshold in front of it; the threshold only means a reader with nothing in an account has no access to the arithmetic. Stated as the two quantities it actually is: £44.00 of a reader’s own money is the admission, and £48.66 is what the rounds behind that admission are worth against buying them, and the two numbers answer different questions.
One consequence is worth having in front of a reader before the rest of the section. A threshold is recoverable and a stake is not. Money put over a threshold and never staked comes back out subject to whatever a cashier’s withdrawal terms say, and money staked has gone through a machine returning less than it took. The £44.00 is in the first condition at the moment it lands and in the second condition one round later, and nothing on the published side of any of these offers marks the moment it crosses.
3
What the seven are worth under the heaviest staking demand the law allows
Not one of the seven offers publishes a staking demand of its own. That is the central fact about this class of play, it is reported by all seven guides separately, and it leaves this section with two rules of its own pulling against each other: every page prices a play twice, and no page assumes a figure nobody printed. Struck on an invented demand the free column would be fiction; struck on nothing at all the seven would carry one price apiece and would have answered half of their own question.
The settlement is to stand the free column on a published British ceiling and to label it as a ceiling and nothing else. The heaviest demand with a published number behind it is the British cap, which bars a licensee from requiring bonus funds to be staked through more than ten times over, and which took effect on 19 January 2026 off the rule sheet. A cashier trading outside that licence is bound by none of it, and no sentence in this section says any such offer demands ten times of anybody. What the cap supplies is a defensible outer edge and no more than that.
Taken on one footing, and the footing has to be said. Where a count’s winnings land in a balance treated as bonus funds, the ten-times limit reaches them off the rule sheet. Nothing published settles whether a count of free rounds is bonus funds at all, in either direction, so this section states the rule as written and goes no further.
Worked across the seven: £79.00 of face stakes itself, £75.84 of that reaches the balances at 96 per cent, a general figure for an ordinary machine stated by this publisher and read off no named title stated here, read nowhere, and the bracket of E = B × (1 − W × (1 − RTP) ∕ g) at a demand of ten times and full qualifying weight closes at six tenths. Six tenths of £75.84 is £45.50, and £30.34 is what the demand takes. Against that, the identical counts funded by the reader cost £3.16, which is the four pence in every pound the return keeps across £79.00 of staking, and nothing is owed on the proceeds because nothing was advanced.
4
Why £48.66 is the least these seven beat paying by, derived step by step
The direction a ceiling bounds in is worth deriving rather than accepting, so here it is worked term by term. Hold the face, the return and the qualifying weight still, and move only the demand. At no demand the bracket closes at one and the free column is the whole £75.84 of balance, putting the distance at £79.00, which is the face exactly. At five times the bracket closes at eight tenths, the free column is £60.67, and the distance is £63.83. At ten times the bracket closes at six tenths, the free column is £45.50, and the distance down these columns is £48.66, which is the figure the board of findings closes on.
So the free column falls as the demand rises, and the distance falls with it. A heavier demand takes more out of the same balance and leaves less to set against the cost of buying the rounds. The ceiling is the heaviest demand that may lawfully be made, so it produces the smallest free column of any lawful demand and therefore the narrowest distance. Every figure on this page resting on it is consequently a floor: these seven counts beat paying for the same rounds by at least £48.66, and a real demand anywhere under the cap makes the offers better than this page says rather than worse.
| The staking demanded | Where the figure comes from | The seven as free rounds | The distance it gives |
|---|---|---|---|
| nothing | a demand of nothing, for contrast | £75.84 | £79.00 |
| 5 times | half of the lawful ceiling | £60.67 | £63.83 |
| 10 times, the ceiling | the most a licensee may demand | £45.50 | £48.66 |
Two things about that table deserve saying plainly, because the wrong word here has already cost this network a correction across two sections. The first is that the narrow reading is the one that cannot overstate an offer at the reader’s cost. The second is that two unpublished quantities sit in the same expression and bound in opposite directions: the qualifying weight read at full weight is the kindest reading available, a lower weight leaving less behind, while the demand read at the ceiling is the harshest. Both are stated here, and this page claims the narrow direction for the demand and the kind direction for the weight, which is the honest pair rather than the comfortable one.
The point where this class of play runs out is worth printing as well. At a demand of twenty-five times the bracket reaches nought and £75.84 of balance is expected to be gone entirely, so the free column reads nothing and the distance collapses to the £3.16 the paid side costs. A requirement above twenty-five times is therefore not a worse offer than one at twenty-five times. It is the same offer, worth nought on the free side, with a longer path to the same place.
5
How the £48.66 was added, and the six tenths of a penny beside it
Each of the seven findings beneath the board was lifted off the guide that reported it, struck at the stake that guide states, and carried up without rounding, because a head that rounds a row compounds the rounding seven times over. Six of the seven are worked at ten pence a round and the seventh at twenty-five pence this section’s own figures, both stated by this publisher and neither read off anything, so a reader who thinks a round is worth something else can scale the whole column and will be right to.
Nothing stands outside the £48.66. All seven findings are sums of money, no row reports a rate or a count in place of a sum, and no guide under this heading has failed to report, so the board carries no row set back off the measure and no row waiting to be filled. That is unusual rather than ordinary across this domain, and it is worth naming as the reason this section’s total is the cleanest of the seven: a class of play defined by a payment is a class where every page has a published payment to work from.
One discrepancy is real and is better printed than smoothed, and the closing figure resolves it the exact way rather than the convenient one. Two of the seven distances fall between pennies and are shown to the nearest one on their own pages: 61.6 pence appears there as 62p and £1.848 appears as £1.85, which is six tenths of a penny between them. Add the seven as those pages print them and the answer is £48.67. Work the same seven down the columns of the instrument above, from £79.00 of face through £75.84 of balance to £45.50 against £3.16, and the answer is £48.664, which prints as £48.66. The closing figure is £48.66, because that is what the seven offers come to, and the two rows go on reading as their own pages print them rather than being restated to make a column add.
£79.00 of face across seven paid-for counts, worth £45.50 at the lawful ceiling and costing £3.16 funded by the reader, so £48.66 of distance stands behind £44.00 of admission
6
The admission divided by the count, which is a rate and joins no total
Part one separated a door from a threshold and promised a price for the distinction. Here it is. Where a count is published beside a payment the division is meaningful, and the three quotients under this heading are a tenth of a pound a round, 3.33 pence a round and 2.5 pence a round. Those three figures are the sharpest thing a reader can take off this class of play, because they are arithmetic on two published numbers and need no assumption from this publisher at all.
Where only a payment is published the division is empty. Five pounds reaches fifty rounds at ten pence, three pounds reaches thirty and one pound reaches ten, and dividing the payment by the count it reaches gives ten pence every time, which is the stake this publisher assumed in order to do the division. The quotient has told a reader their own assumption back. The same holds for the payment route at twenty-five pence a round. So four of the seven carry no admission price per round, and a figure quoted as though they did would be a figure about this publisher’s stake rather than about the offer.
| What is published beside the money | The admission a round carries | Distance for every pound paid |
|---|---|---|
| A hundred rounds for ten pounds | 10p a round | 61.6p |
| Three hundred rounds for ten pounds | 3.33p a round | £1.85 |
| Two hundred rounds for five pounds | 2.5p a round | £2.46 |
| A threshold and no count at all | not a quotient | not a quotient |
Both of those columns are rates and neither of them enters the £48.66. Pence a round is a sum divided by a count, distance per pound is a sum divided by a sum, and a head that added a rate to a column of money would print a figure standing for nothing whatever. The seventh row of the board carries a sum, so it adds; the quotients above are reported here and are kept out of the addition on purpose.
Read across the three doors and the pattern is the useful part. The more rounds a payment carries, the cheaper the admission for each of them and the more distance each pound of payment is standing behind. Across the whole heading, £48.66 of distance rests on £44.00 of admission, which is £1.11 of distance for every pound a reader moves. That is a rate as well, it is a rate about seven offers at two stakes rather than about any one of them, and it is printed here because it is the quantity this heading exists to supply and no guide beneath it can reach.
7
Why the board prints a count on each row and no count at the foot
Every finding on this site is said twice over, once in money and once in rounds, because a reader pays in one unit and plays in the other. On a single guide the second saying is a simple division: £6.16 at ten pence a round is 61.6 rounds. Across a section it stops being simple, and the board of findings therefore carries a count beside every row and no count under them.
The reason is the stake. Six of these seven findings are worked at ten pence a round and the seventh at twenty-five, and 24.64 rounds of distance at twenty-five pence is £6.16 while 24.64 rounds at ten pence is £2.46. Add the seven counts of distance and the answer would be a number of rounds that no stake converts back into a sum of money. It would look like a quantity and behave like two, which is precisely the fault the instrument on every page of this domain exists to refuse.
The money column has no such difficulty. A pound is a pound whatever stake produced it, so seven sums of money add and the answer means what it says. That asymmetry is why the closing sentence under the board names the money and says in words that the rounds were left untotalled, where a reader can check the claim against the rows above it rather than taking it from a note.
The honest version of the second unit at section scale is therefore conditional and is stated that way. At ten pence a round throughout, £48.66 of distance would be 486.6 rounds. That sentence is true of a stake and not of these offers, six of which are priced at ten pence here and one of which is not, and printing it without the condition attached would be the same error in a friendlier font.
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Where the £48.66 travels once the stake is not ten pence
Ten pence a round and 96 per cent are this publisher’s figures, stated at every point they are spent, and a reader whose rounds are worth something else needs to know which parts of this page move with them. Both prices are linear in the stake. Double what a round puts on and the face doubles, the balance doubles, what the demand takes doubles, and the distance doubles with all of it. Halve every one of the seven stakes and the section comes to £22.75 free against £1.58 paid and stands £24.33 apart. Double every one of them and it comes to £91.01 against £6.32 and stands £97.33 apart.
What does not move is the shape. The free column is six tenths of the balance at the ceiling whatever the stake, the paid column is four pence in every pound of face whatever the stake, and the ratio between the two is fixed by the return and the demand and by nothing else. A reader who cannot find out what a round is worth at a particular cashier can still carry away that the free version of a paid-for count beats buying it by 14.4 times what buying it costs, at the ceiling, across all seven. Six tenths of 96 pence against four pence is that ratio, it carries no stake in it anywhere, and it is the one quantity on this page a reader can use without knowing what a round is worth.
The return is the other assumption and it moves these figures a great deal more than the stake does, because under a staking demand the return enters the free column twice: once as the balance the rounds hand back and once inside the bracket the demand eats into. At 94 per cent the balances fall to £74.26, the bracket closes at four tenths rather than six, the free column is £29.70 against £4.74 paid, and the distance narrows to £34.44. At 97 per cent the balances are £76.63, the bracket closes at seven tenths, the free column is £53.64 against £2.37 paid, and the distance widens to £56.01. That is roughly seven pounds of closing figure for every percentage point, so the 96 per cent assumed here is the single number on this page most worth challenging, and challenging it does not change the direction of anything above.
The last thing to say about the stake is that it is frequently not the reader’s to choose. A count of rounds handed over at a fixed value is handed over at that value, and the three doors under this heading are the cases where a reader can at least divide a published payment by a published count and see what the cashier thinks a round is worth. Where neither figure is published, this section names what it lacks and strikes nothing: a payment with no count beside it prices admission and prices no rounds, which is a finding and not a gap.
Questions
- Is a count of rounds that arrives after a deposit worth paying the deposit for
- That is two questions and they want separating. The rounds behind these seven payments are worth £45.50 at the lawful ceiling against £3.16 to buy the same rounds, so £48.66 of distance. The £44.00 of deposit is not a cost of either figure, because it stays in the account as balance until a round stakes it.
- How much of my own money has to go through a till across this whole heading
- £44.00, made up of £25.00 standing behind a published count of rounds and £19.00 standing behind nothing but permission to be present. The first can be divided by the count it buys and gives a real admission price per round; the second divides out at the stake this publisher assumed and therefore tells a reader nothing.
- Why does every free figure on this page rest on a requirement of ten times
- Because not one of the seven offers publishes a requirement of its own, and a figure nobody printed is not a figure to assume. Ten times is the ceiling British law sets on a licensee’s demand, effective 19 January 2026, so it is the harshest treatment with a published number behind it. A cashier trading outside that licence is bound by none of it, and no figure above says any such offer asks ten times.
- Does standing the figures on that ceiling make them a best case or a worst case
- A worst case, and the arithmetic says so: at no requirement the seven stand £79.00 apart, at five times £63.83 and at ten times £48.66. A heavier requirement leaves less in the free column, so the ceiling gives the narrowest distance. The £48.66 is the least these counts beat paying by, and a real requirement under the cap makes them better rather than worse.
- Why are the rounds on the board not added up the way the money is
- Because six of the seven findings are worked at ten pence a round and the seventh at twenty-five, so 24.64 rounds means £6.16 on one row and would mean £2.46 on another. Added, those counts would produce a number that no stake converts back into money. A pound is a pound whatever stake produced it, so the money column adds and the rounds column does not.
- Which of these seven gives the most back for each pound that goes in
- Two hundred rounds behind a five pound payment, at £2.46 of distance for every pound paid, against £1.85 for three hundred rounds behind ten pounds and 61.6 pence for a hundred rounds behind ten pounds. Those are rates rather than sums and they are kept out of the £48.66 for that reason, a rate and a total being unlike quantities.
- What British protection is given up by paying a deposit at one of these tills
- The cap of ten times on a staking requirement, the advertising rule against advertising an offer as free where a qualifying stake out of the customer’s pocket is required, the list of significant conditions a promotion has to communicate, and Gamstop Online, whose reach is set by the licence and never by the website. None of the four reaches a cashier trading without that licence.