What you will find here
We write the same page set for every edition from scratch instead of running one through a translator. The Aviator game page handles the round structure, the declared return, the state of Spribe's entry on the Gambling Commission register and why predictor products cannot function. The free play-money version gets a page to itself, and so does the download question on apps and APK files, which draws more searches than anything else we publish and attracts more rubbish with them. Money handling, from the credit card ban through identity checks to rollover, belongs to the deposits and payouts page.
Alongside those we keep the page on limits and help, this one, a page for writing in, and the legal set covering data, cookies and conditions of use.
The eleven markets are global English, India, the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, Poland, Spain, France and Australia. Language is the smallest of the differences between them. Whether casino play online is lawful, whether Spribe holds a certificate locally, which number a worried reader should ring and what the tax authority wants are four answers that change completely from one market to the next, and getting any of them wrong would leave the rest worth nothing however well it read.
In Britain the licensing position can be read from primary documents, because the Gambling Commission runs a public register of licence holders and publishes its enforcement actions with dates attached. Both are quoted directly in the licensing section of the main page.
How we keep these pages current
We keep the sourcing rules narrow on purpose, since this subject attracts invented detail in quantity.
Game facts come from Spribe. The product page supplies the declared 97% return, the game type and the device list; the company page supplies the launch date and the licence and certificate inventory; the provably fair page supplies the mechanism by which a round result is produced and checked. Where Spribe stays silent, we stay silent. That covers the maximum win, the top multiplier and the stake range, each of which an operator configures and displays in the game's own information panel. Numbers for those circulate everywhere and contradict one another, which is argument enough to leave them out.
Law, licensing and tax we take from the body responsible, read at first hand. For this edition that means the Commission's register and its published actions rather than a summary sitting somewhere else. Where the register shows something awkward, we print the awkwardness instead of tidying it away.
We drop claims that trace back only to a thin affiliate page, even where they would produce a neater sentence. This edition contains a working example. A date on which the suspension of Spribe's British operating licence was supposedly lifted appears on one low-quality news page and in no official record anywhere, so we do not state it. The hole that leaves is deliberate.
Anything we calculate from a published figure we flag as a calculation. The link between the declared return and the odds of a round reaching a given multiplier is derived from the 97% figure rather than observed, and the pages say which.
We date each page on the day we check it, so the date at the top is a checking date rather than a publication date. Pages that have not changed still get re-read, because gambling pages usually go wrong through events rather than through edits.
The sources we use
Game facts come from Spribe's published pages. Law, licensing and tax come from the Gambling Commission and the other official bodies responsible. Helpline and self-exclusion details come from the organisations that run them, GamCare and GAMSTOP. Stake limits, maximum win and anything else an operator configures come from the game's own information panel, the only place the figure applying to a given account appears.
A figure that cannot be traced back to one of those sources is left out. Two that circulate widely for Aviator, a maximum multiplier and a maximum cash win, were checked against Spribe's own pages and against the testing bodies named on them and could be traced to neither, so no number for either appears here. The same applies to round-timing figures and crash-distribution tables, which no reachable source publishes with a method attached.
How we are funded
Some links here lead to gambling operators, and we may earn a commission when a reader opens an account through one. Those links are labelled promotional and carry the nofollow and sponsored attributes, and every page prints a one-line disclosure.
Commission does not change the figures or the licensing position on any page.
Corrections
Facts expire, licensing facts fastest of all, and this subject moves more than most. If something is wrong or has been overtaken, tell us: name the page, the claim and ideally the official document that contradicts it, and we will check it against the original and fix it if it holds up. The contact address is the only route in, and a correction needs no personal detail.
A reported correction is checked against the primary document rather than the page that reported it, which here usually means the Commission's register entry, its published enforcement notice, or Spribe's own page. Where the original confirms the report, the page changes and the date at the top moves to the day of that check. Where the original is narrower than the report, the narrower wording goes on the page. Where it cannot be settled either way, the claim comes off rather than staying up with a hedge attached.
We cannot help with a casino account. We hold no player balances and cannot reach an operator's systems, so a missing deposit, an uncredited bonus or a stalled withdrawal has to travel the operator's own complaints procedure, then its alternative dispute resolution provider, with the Commission taking reports about licence conditions.