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The question this section answers

What is a headline worth before anything has touched it? That is the whole of this section, and the answer is almost never the number printed.

Two things stand between a printed figure and a usable quantity. One is a unit. At the 10p press assumed throughout, a hundred spins and a hundred pounds stand ten times apart; make the press a penny and they stand a hundred times apart. The other is the return, taking four pence from every pound of expectation before any term in the offer has acted at all. Only after both of those has a reader got a number they can use.

So each note here begins at the same place. Name the unit. Multiply out the face. Take the edge off. Then, and only then, read the terms. Doing it in that order is the difference between a figure a reader can test and a figure a reader has merely been shown.

Fixed quantities across this site, used in every note under this heading: a 10p press, a return of 96 pence in each pound, weighting at one, and a ladder of six prepaid denominations between £10.00 and £100.00. Multiples are named wherever they appear, and the regulated ceiling of ten turnovers is used as the working figure except where a note says otherwise.

No Great Britain licence stands behind headlines of this kind, and the duty bearing hardest on one of them holds a play-through to ten turnovers. Where that cap is absent, the same figure can carry forty turnovers instead, which turns a £10.00 face from £5.76 of expected survivor into a £5.76 expected deficit. That swing, £11.52 on a face of ten pounds, is what one missing number is worth.

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A hundred of what, exactly

Take one headline figure and give it six different units. Nothing about the number changes and everything about the money does.

The last column is where the ambiguity becomes money. Three of those six readings produce a balance a payout floor holds entire, and three produce one it lets through. A reader who sees the headline and not the unit has been handed a coin toss between a residue of nothing much and a residue of everything.

Row six carries a distinction the others do not. Money credited as money arrives whole, the edge still ahead of it, so a full £100.00 stands there to be staked. Presses credited as presses arrive already reduced, since the presses themselves are what carry the edge. Row three therefore shows £9.60 against a printed ten pounds, and a count is not the same thing as a sum of equal size.

No published rule fixes the price of a press, and this site will not supply one. Two neighbouring rules do exist: chance information has to be within reach before anybody commits to gamble, and an incentive has to carry terms that are clear and fair and reachable by whoever it was offered to. Neither of those puts a figure on a spin, so a headline naming a count without a price is not in breach of anything; it is simply one number short of a sum.

A hundred times, between the cheapest reading and the dearest

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Four per cent, charged before anything else

The second deduction arrives without being announced. Four pence stay behind out of every pound at a game paying 96 back, so a face written out in presses holds 96 per cent of its printed size from the instant of crediting, and nothing in the offer’s terms brought that about.

On this site’s figures the arithmetic is one multiplication. Ten pence a press over a hundred presses prints ten pounds and expects £9.60, so 40p has gone before a reader reads a word. Two hundred presses lose 80p. A thousand presses lose £4.00. The loss is always four hundredths of the face, which makes it the one deduction on this site that is genuinely proportional at every size.

No note in this section reports a smaller residue than that 40p, and none can waive it. Strike the play-through out altogether and it still goes, the loss belonging to the game rather than to the terms. Find a headline with nothing attached and what remains are two deductions, the edge and the floor, of which the floor is far the heavier.

Then the terms arrive. Ten turnovers on a face of £10.00 ask £100.00 of staking, which costs £4.00 in expectation, so £5.76 is what the whole exercise is expected to leave. The notes under this heading do that sum on nineteen different headlines, and the pattern never changes: name the unit, take 4 per cent, then take 4 per cent of the multiple again.

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Where the face stops being worth anything

One figure governs every note in this section and it is not a term anybody wrote. Take a face, apply a multiple, and the expectation left is the face times one less four hundredths of that multiple. At twenty-five turnovers that bracket is empty whatever the face, because four hundredths is the keep of a game paying 96 pence back and 0.04 fits into 1 twenty-five times over.

Three things follow and each one does work in the notes below. First, the figures in the two middle columns are proportional to the face, so a reader who knows the share surviving at their multiple can price any headline in their head. Second, the ceiling of ten turnovers under a British licence is not a mild restriction: it is the row at which three fifths survive, and the rows beneath it run all the way to a deficit. Third, the last row is where a headline costs a reader their own money rather than merely failing to pay out, and a face of £25.00 at forty turnovers is expected to take £14.40 of it.

That ceiling has a date and a shape, stated once here. Since 19 January 2026 a British licence stops a play-through at ten turnovers of the credit, and what stops there is any requirement to stake a total before a part of it turns withdrawable. Only the multiple is held. A bigger percentage therefore leaves the turnover per pound of credit alone and lifts the credit instead, lifting the staking by the same proportion.

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Nineteen notes, grouped by their unit

These notes divide by what their headline actually names, which is the division part 2 says matters most. Ten of them name a count of presses, six name a sum of money, and three name something else entirely.

The counts run from the smallest to the largest face this site prices. 5 free spins no deposit takes a face of 50p and finds a survivor standing 34.72 times below the lowest payable sum. 10 free spins prices the unit every other count is built from, at a pound. 25 free spins on registration no deposit turns a near miss into one number. 40 free spins no deposit is the one page where the count and the multiple agree. 100 free spins no deposit measures a face in seconds of entitlement rather than in pounds. 150 free spins no deposit is the nearest miss on the site and the most expensive one. 200 free spins is about a clock rather than a ceiling. 1000 free spins no deposit lands on the ladder’s top step exactly. Free spins no deposit is the general case, priced in pence. And 20 free spins on registration no deposit is the page where the price of a press is left unstated, which puts the face anywhere between a pound and twenty.

The sums of money behave differently, because they arrive whole. Free £5 no deposit casino is a credit below every denomination, so the instrument cannot express it. Free £10 no deposit sets a sum against a count of the same size and prices the 40p between them. £20 free no deposit casino lands on a rung at both ends, so the ceiling does all the stranding by itself. £30 free no deposit is two rungs exactly going in and an awkward figure coming out. Casino no deposit bonus prices the middle of the range to the penny. And 100 free welcome bonus no deposit required is the page part 2 was written for, where one headline has two readings £54.24 apart.

Three notes name a unit of their own. Free daily spins pays a face in thirty instalments and lets a clock do the stranding. Bingo no deposit bonus counts in tickets rather than presses, which changes which rules apply. And Crypto casino no deposit bonus is quoted in one unit while the floor it has to clear is quoted in another.

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Six other questions about the same figure

Seven questions get put to a prepaid face on this site and this section asks the first of them. The other six have their own headings, and a reader whose real problem is a denomination or a weighting is in the wrong place here.

The spend-down is the natural step from here, since this heading stops at what a headline is worth and that one starts with what happens to it.

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What the rule on incentives actually holds

A single code provision governs every headline in this section on the licensed side, and what it reaches is worth knowing. Hand over money, goods, services or any other advantage, by way of a reward, an incentive or an arrangement of that sort, to a customer or a prospective one, and the provision bites. Its first demand is on the terms: clear, fair, and put where the person offered the thing can find them.

Two more limbs deal with customers marked high value, asking that incentives aimed at them sit with the licensing objectives and with guidance the regulator publishes on exactly that. Scope runs wide, taking in ancillary remote licences and leaving out only the technical and software ones. That condition’s page gives no effective date at all.

One figure belongs beside the table in part 4, and on the sheet behind this site it is the lone market multiple the regulator itself can be quoted for. Up to sixty times, it records, was being applied by some licensees. Feed sixty into part 4’s arithmetic: ten pounds of face finishes £14.00 beyond the end of itself and twenty-five pounds of face finishes £35.00 beyond it. Both are expected losses of a reader’s own money on something advertised as costing nothing, and both are what a ceiling of ten turnovers displaced.

A second figure from the same place needs its owner attached. Answering the consultation, one operator reported three quarters of its own offers already sitting between one and ten times. That belongs to one operator describing its own offers, not to the regulator describing a market, and this site never lets the first stand in for the second.

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The figures this section declines to invent

The most important absence on this page is the price of a press. No primary source puts a value on a free spin, identifies whoever settles that value, or imposes any duty to publish it. The number of pence a press is worth is a commercial choice, and a reader will find it in the terms or not at all. Every note under this heading uses 10p as a stated assumption and shows what changes when it moves, which is the honest response to a gap of that size.

Beside it sits a second absence. Nobody has published whether the ceiling reaches a free press as bonus funds. These notes say only the narrower thing, which is that a requirement on winnings from a free press, once those winnings land in a bonus balance, stops at ten times. Further than that in either direction is barred, and no note here goes there.

Nor is there a published game-contribution table, a standard maximum-win cap on credit winnings, or a rule converting winnings into bonus funds. None of those appears here as a figure. Where a note needs a weighting it says what it has assumed, and the section on the room exists precisely because that assumption does so much work.

Two last refusals. These notes carry no payout speed for any counter and no promotion code, both being the most perishable facts in the subject. And nothing here bears on reaching a site a reader has shut against themselves, or on getting past a bank’s gambling block. A British licence cannot be held without belonging to the national exclusion scheme, which puts every licensed company inside it, and the scheme itself reports that companies outside it lie beyond anything it can do. The care note below carries the free helpline.