How we get our Stake numbers

Where the data comes from

Three public endpoints, none of which requires a key or an account. We read them; we do not produce the figures they return.

The game catalogue

Every game published on Stake Engine, its studio, its active math version and its modes. This is what tells us a slot is a Stake Engine title at all — Pragmatic, Hacksaw or Nolimit games are not on this platform, so we show no math for them rather than guessing.

The math of each mode

Max win, RTP, mode cost and the odds of the max win, per game and per mode. Four fields out of the eleven returned: we keep the ones the documentation defines, and drop those we could not reconstruct ourselves.

The outcome table

Every possible outcome of a mode, with its weight and its multiplier — 400,000 rows for one mode of Million X, 31 MB. It gives the number of outcomes that pay the max win, and the real share of spins that pay nothing. We read these tables game by game, so a game without one simply shows no outcome figures rather than borrowed ones.

Bet volume

The public Stake Engine ranking, nine time windows, top 500 games per window. That cap is a real limit: a game outside the top 500 has no volume figure here, and we leave it blank rather than estimate one.

What we calculate, and how

Four operations, all reproducible from the sources above. No proprietary model, nothing to take on trust.

Spins for a 50% chance

ln(0.5) ÷ ln(1 − p), where p is the max win chance per spin. Not 1 ÷ p, which is the average wait and already corresponds to a 63% chance.

Expected cost

Spins × bet × mode cost × house edge. It is an average over the long run, not a forecast of your session.

Share of spins that pay nothing

Weighted by how often each outcome comes up, not counted in table rows. On the base mode of Million X the two differ wildly: 22% of rows pay nothing, but 86% of spins do. We publish 86%.

Rankings

Max win is ordered by multiplier, most played by real bet count over 30 days. No editorial weighting, no commercial agreement in the sort.

The check that tells us we read it right. Recomputing the max-win odds from the outcome table's weights gives 1 in 27,619,709 on Million X — exactly the figure Stake publishes for that game through a different endpoint. Two independent paths, same number.

How often it refreshes

A scheduled job runs daily: it rebuilds the catalogue index, refreshes bet volume for every ranked game, and syncs the math of a batch of games in turn. Pages cache their figures for six hours, so what you read is at most a few hours behind the last sync — and every data page shows that sync date.

Nothing is fetched while you load a page. A slow API on their side can make our figures older; it can never make our pages slower.

What we do not publish

Figures we cannot define

The math endpoint returns six more fields that no documentation explains and that we could not reconstruct. A number whose definition we cannot state has no place on a page.

Formulas Stake keeps private

The weekly and monthly bonuses follow a rule Stake does not publish. Our calculators say so instead of producing an estimate that would look authoritative.

Predictions

No tool here tells you what a session will do. Hot games, due payouts and predictor overlays cannot beat provably-fair math, and we will not sell the idea that they can.

Games outside Stake Engine

Most slots on Stake come from other platforms with no comparable public math. For those, we show no verified figures at all.

Known limits

Some games publish no outcome table — their studio chose not to, so the max-win odds simply do not exist for them here. Volume is capped at the top 500 per window. Observed RTP over a few days says more about variance than about a game, which is why we show it next to the theoretical figure rather than instead of it. And a max win is a ceiling, never a target: at 1 in 27 million, a game can run for years across thousands of players without paying it once.

Found a figure that looks wrong? Tell us, with the game and the page. We would rather correct a number than defend it — and if the source itself is wrong, we will say that too.

How we are paid

BonusTiime is an affiliate site. When someone signs up to Stake through our links, we earn a commission, at no extra cost to that player. That is our business model and you should read our pages knowing it.

What it does not change: the order of our rankings, which follows the data; the odds and costs our tools compute, which come from the game math; and what we publish when the figures are unflattering — the whole point of the max win simulator is that chasing a max win prices out badly, and we say so on a page that also carries a sign-up button.

More on this in how our affiliation works and how we rate casinos. If gambling stops being a game for you, responsible gambling lists the tools and the people who can help.