What a payback
percentage
actually buys you

Casinos publish a number. Regulators publish a different one. Neither tells you what happens in the forty minutes you are actually sitting there. These are working demonstrations, built on figures published by gaming regulators, that show the difference.

01 The payback demonstration Pick a venue, a denomination and a bet, then watch a session play out. Run it a few thousand times. Follow it to a million spins and see where the advertised number finally turns up. Seven demonstrations in one page. Open → 02 Casino directory Land-based casinos by state, with a link to the operator's own site where one is on record. Where no verified address exists, it links to a search rather than a guess. Open → 03 Responsible gambling What to watch for, where to get help, and how self-exclusion works. Plus the legal terms, the privacy notice and the limits of every figure on this site. Open →

Venues with a payback figure

Denominations, 1¢ to $100

States that publish nothing

Taken from any operator

Nothing here will help you win. Every machine described on this site is built to return less than it takes, and the sections that look most like a strategy exist to demonstrate that no strategy works.

Payback percentages come from published regulator figures — Nevada's Gaming Control Board, which reports by geographic area, and Connecticut, which receives tribal figures under its compacts. Where a jurisdiction publishes nothing, the site says so instead of estimating. Spin outcomes are generated by a random number generator running representative paytables, not the mathematics of any real game.