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RTP and house edge

These pieces explain return to player and house edge as arithmetic, and check published RTP figures against the documents behind them.

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Slot figures come from the game studios' own published sheets. One piece reads a 100% RTP claim, and one reads how a crypto casino earns its revenue.

Every figure in these pieces traces to a document named at the foot of the page it appears on. Nothing here is a recommendation to gamble.

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· 8 minWhat does RTP mean in slots? The regulator's definition and what 10 studios publishRTP, return to player, is the percentage of all money wagered that a game is designed to pay back over its lifetime. The UK Gambling Commission calls it the designed return shown in the game's rules. Studio game sheets collected by CryptoGuardz cover 9,538 titles with an RTP; the ten studios with most games have medians from 94.5% to 96.99%. · 8 minWhat is a casino house edge? The arithmetic, and the edges casinos and studios publishA casino house edge is the share of every bet a game is built to keep over time, and it equals 100% minus the RTP. Stake publishes 1% on Dice, Plinko and Limbo and 2% on Drill. Across 97 video slots on studio game sheets collected by CryptoGuardz, the median edge is 4.7%, from 3% to 6.5%. · 8 minStake revenue: how a crypto casino makes money, from its own published house edgesStake makes money from the house edge on every bet. Its own game pages state a 1% edge on Dice, Crash and Plinko, and its fairness code sets 2% on Drill. Third-party slots carry 4% to 6% on studio sheets. Forbes reported US$4.7 billion of Stake gross revenue for 2024; Stake publishes no accounts. · 5 minGamdom's 100% RTP claim: what the marketing, the help centre and the terms each sayGamdom has marketed its in-house games as 100% RTP since 20 November 2025. Its help centre puts the RTP at around 99% with a rebate on top, two Gamdom pages give different caps for that rebate ($5k a day and $50,000), and the binding terms do not mention RTP at all.

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