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Rules before the stake

Games and rules

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Rules, return figures, volatility and pay tables — read before the stake, not after.

A game's rules are published, fixed and almost never read. The return figure is in the information panel, the pay table is one tap further in, and the house edge follows from both without anybody having to estimate it. That is unusual: of all the things on a gambling site, the maths of the game itself is the part that is actually documented.

This section reads those documents. What a return figure describes and what it says about one evening, how volatility turns the same figure into two different experiences, why the same title ships with several pay tables, what a feature purchase changes about a bonus, and how a published dealer rule can be used by the player sitting opposite it. Rules before the stake, in other words, rather than explanations afterwards.

Games and rules — the words, plainly

RTP
Return to player: the share of all wagers a game is built to pay back over a long enough span. It describes the game, not your session.
Volatility
How the returns are distributed: often and small, or rarely and large.
Pay table
The list of what each symbol or hand pays. The step where payouts jump tells you more about the game than its headline figure.
House edge
The share the house keeps by design. The mirror image of the return figure.
House way
The fixed rule a dealer follows when a hand can be split more than one way, so the decision is not left to judgement.

Volatility bands, as our own guide sets them out

  • LowWins land more often and are smaller — typically 1.5x or 2x the stake. Long runs with no win at all are less common. Source
  • Low–mediumNot every game falls neatly into a band; the in-between ones get described this way. Source
  • MediumA balance of the two: big returns are possible and not particularly rare, and dry runs are shorter. Often the band with the extra features and minigames. Source
  • HighHeadline returns of 3,000x or 10,000x, hit rarely, with long sessions that return nothing in between. Source

Bands and figures from our slot volatility guide; the bar shows the order of the bands, not a probability.