Scroll · 6 November 2026

What a pay table tells you

Every chamber prints its pay table in full. Here is how to read one, and what it can and cannot promise.

One glint in, this much back

Every figure in an Emberdorne pay table is what comes back for one glint staked. If Lava Rise shows 1.5 for four Fire Opals on a line and your stake is 20 glints, that line returns 30. The table already shares the stake across the lines, so you never need to divide by twenty.

A number below 1 is not a win. If a line pays 0.45 and you staked 10, 4.5 glints come back and 5.5 are gone. The verdict under each game always says this plainly, as "down on the round", because flashing lights for a smaller return are one of the oldest tricks in games of chance and we would rather not play it.

What the table does not say

A pay table tells you what each result is worth, not how often it turns up. Rare results pay a lot because they are rare. Two chambers can show similar-looking tables and still feel completely different: Ash & Ore returns something on more than a third of spins, mostly small amounts, while Stoke at a heat of 30 succeeds on fewer than one round in four and pays almost four times the stake when it does.

Over a long run, every chamber hands back slightly less than goes in. That is not a setting we change for you or for anyone; it is built into the table and the odds from the start, the same for every visitor at every hour. No pattern of play, time of day or stake size changes it.

Where we print chances

Some of our games let us print exact chances, so we do. Stoke lists the chance of reaching each heat next to what it pays. Close the Gates and Hearth Swap offer a helper that shows the best choice, worked out exactly. For the reel games the chances depend on many symbols at once, so the at-a-glance panel gives a plain guide instead, such as how often eruptions start.

Why this matters even with glints

Glints are worth nothing in money, so nothing real is lost here. But the habit of reading a table, asking how often and asking what it costs per round, is worth having anywhere. Playing or success in these games does not imply future success at real-money gambling, and a real-money table hides the same arithmetic behind brighter lights.