A bonus taken for Aviator often cannot be cleared in Aviator

Three wordings that keep a crash round out

Whether a round moves the counter is settled by one of three forms of words. They produce similar outcomes and they differ sharply in how visible the outcome is.

The first is a list of excluded games. The wording is blunt: bets placed on the titles named there do not count toward wagering, and in stricter versions they void the bonus balance outright. A crash title inside that list ends the matter on the first reading. Nothing done inside the game reduces the number afterwards.

The second is a contribution table with a zero in it. Instead of naming a game as forbidden, the table assigns each category a percentage saying how much of a bet counts, and writes 0% beside the row that covers crash or instant titles. The practical result is identical to exclusion. The presentation is not, because a zero in a table of rates reads like a rate rather than a refusal, and a rate looks like something a player can work around by playing more.

The third wording is the quiet one, and it is the reason this page exists. The row says 10%, or 20%, or some other fraction. Nothing is forbidden, nothing is voided, and the terms are telling the plain truth when they say the game is allowed. What the row has done is multiply the requirement, and it has done the multiplication in a place where the product is never shown.

What a 10% rate does to $4,000

Work it through on the smaller of the two requirements above. The bonus is $100, the multiple is 40, and the requirement is $4,000 of qualifying bets. At a 10% rate each dollar staked counts as ten cents, so that $4,000 has to be assembled out of $40,000 of real betting. The advertised requirement did not change by a penny. The betting behind it grew tenfold.

Now set the game’s own figures against that total. The smallest stake recorded for Aviator in our file is $0.10, and a round runs somewhere between ten and thirty seconds. Clearing $40,000 at ten cents a round takes four hundred thousand rounds. At twenty seconds each that is eight million seconds of play, roughly ninety two days without sleeping, without pausing and without letting one round pass unbet. Raise the stake and the days fall while the exposure rises: at a dollar a round the same total is forty thousand rounds, a little over nine days of continuous play. There is no stake at which this becomes comfortable, because the total is fixed and only the shape of the grind moves.

The edge is charged on the whole of it

The turnover figure matters because something is taken out of it on the way past. Every list we compared prints 97% as the return for this game, which leaves three percent as the edge, and that edge is charged on money wagered rather than money deposited.

Three percent of $40,000 is $1,200. That is what clearing the same $100 costs once contribution drops to a tenth, twelve times the value of the thing being cleared.

Now run it at full contribution, which is the friendliest version anyone is offered. Three percent of $4,000 is $120, and the expected cost of clearing the bonus still exceeds the bonus by twenty dollars. Nothing has been assumed there beyond the two numbers in the offer and the one number on the return page. Variance will put individual players well above and well below that line, which is what variance does, and the line itself does not move for anybody.

Excluded is more honest than partial

A game named on an exclusion list tells you where you stand before you deposit.

A fractional rate does not, and that is the whole of its usefulness to the party writing it. The player sees a game that is permitted, plays it in good faith, and learns the size of the requirement from the balance rather than from the terms.

No deposit offers are outside this page

Offers requiring no deposit are not covered here and are not covered anywhere else on this site. They are left out by decision rather than by oversight, so nothing written here should be read as a verdict on them.

What this page cannot tell you

It cannot tell you which operator does which of the three things. Whether crash titles are excluded, zeroed or discounted is logged in our file as an open question, to be settled operator by operator, and operator documents are not opened for this site at all. The rule behind that refusal, and the blanks it leaves across the whole project, are set out in how these pages are built.

Two further gaps sit beside that one. No list we compared prints an upper stake limit for this game, so where terms cap the bet size while a bonus is live, we cannot say whether that cap sits below the game’s own ceiling or nowhere near it. And the lists cannot agree on which operators carry the title in the first place: three of them between them name 58 different brands with exactly one name common to all three, a result taken apart in the comparison of the lists themselves. A bonus clause belongs to an operator, and the operator column is the least settled column we have.

What is settled is the arithmetic, and it is enough to act on. Find the contribution row before you read the multiple, because the row decides what the multiple costs, then read what the balance has to survive next on the page about getting paid.