Games
One game at a time, with the arithmetic shown.
Each page covers the rules of a game, what every bet pays, and the cost that follows from the two. Where a figure can be derived from the payout table, it is derived rather than quoted.
Slots
Slots take more money than every other casino game combined, and they are the game where what you see on screen has the least to do with what is actually happening. One fact explains most of it: the result exists before the reels start to spin.
Typical RTP, online slots90% to 97%, set per configuration
SlotsRoulette
Roulette is the clearest game in the casino to analyse, because every payout is fixed and every probability is countable. One quantity decides what it costs you, and it is not the bet you choose.
House edge, European wheel2.70%
RouletteBlackjack
Blackjack is the counterexample to most of this site: a casino game where what you do genuinely changes what it costs. That does not make it beatable, and the reason it stays profitable for the operator has nothing to do with the cards.
House edge, accurate play, favourable rulesAbout 0.5%
BlackjackBaccarat
Baccarat looks ceremonial and plays itself: every draw follows a fixed table, so the only decision you ever make is which of three bets to back. Two of them are among the cheapest in the casino, and the third is one of the most expensive, sitting an inch away on the same felt.
House edge, banker bet, 5% commissionAbout 1.06%
BaccaratCraps
Craps looks like chaos and prices like a map: the bets nearest you are among the cheapest in the casino, one of them is the only zero-edge wager in the building, and the loud middle of the table charges more than ten times as much. Learning the geography is learning the game.
House edge, pass line1.41%
CrapsVideo poker
Video poker is the rare casino game whose cost is published where you sit: the pay table. Two machines with identical screens and identical cards can differ by two full percentage points because one pays 9 for a full house and the other pays 8. Nothing else in the casino rewards reading small print this directly.
Return, 9/6 Jacks or Better99.54% with optimal play
Video pokerLive dealer
A live dealer game streams a human dealing real cards or spinning a real wheel into the same betting interface as any online table. The camera changes trust, pace and atmosphere; it changes nothing about the price. The maths of every game on this site applies unaltered, and the one variable a live table genuinely moves, rounds per hour, works in your favour.
House edge vs the RNG versionIdentical, rule for rule
Live dealerCrash games
A crash game shows a multiplier climbing from 1.00x until it stops, and pays whoever cashed out first. The interface says the skill is timing; the distribution says otherwise. The crash point is drawn before the curve starts, the house edge is folded into the draw, and every cash-out target, timid or greedy, costs exactly the same.
Where the result comes fromDrawn before the round starts
Crash gamesPlinko
A ball falls through rows of pegs and lands in a slot with a multiplier. That is the whole game, and it is one of the most honest in the casino: the probability of every slot is pure high-school combinatorics, the operator's margin is printed in the info panel, and nothing you do after pressing drop changes anything.
House edge, crypto originalsTypically 1% to 3%, published per title
PlinkoMines
A five-by-five grid hides a number of mines you choose. Every safe tile you reveal grows a multiplier; hit a mine and the stake is gone; cash out any time before that. The tension is real, and so is the arithmetic: every multiplier is priced from tile-counting, minus the same house edge at every step.
House edge, crypto originalsTypically about 1%, published per title
MinesDice
Crypto dice draws a number between 0 and 100 and asks one question: over or under your target? The win chance is whatever you set the slider to, the payout is a fixed formula printed on screen, and the difference between the two is the cleanest view of a house edge you will find anywhere.
House edge, crypto originalsTypically 1%, identical at every slider setting
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