One world lit for every visitor, two more behind a free account, and the rules spelled out below.
Stringlight Shinny is open to everyone: spin it on the home page or on its own page with free play coins. There is no name, email or password to give and nothing to tick.
Lacing Bench and Plowbank Ridge need a free account, and Bruntle’s clipboard holds just four lines: nickname, email address, password, and a tick saying you are 19 or over. It has no line for a card, an address or a phone number, since the pond sells nothing. The account earns its keep twice over: your coins and progress wait in it for your return, and it keeps the reels for grown-ups only. A single button on the account page clears it out completely.
Each new account starts with 100,000 free coins, topped up with anything Stringlight Shinny paid you on the same device. That single balance, level and set of chores then goes with you into all three worlds. The coins are virtual: none can be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged for anything, and no win has real-world value.
In-app purchases? None. Payment pages? Not one, anywhere on the pond.
Each pond world spins five reels across three rows. A win is counted from the left: it must start on the first reel and carry on over neighbouring reels along a fixed payline. The stake is shared out evenly across the lines, and paytable values are multiples of the line bet, except for the scatter, which pays on the whole stake. Where a line holds two wins, only the bigger one is paid.
| Sort of bonus on the pond | What happens on the ice | Pond worlds with it |
|---|---|---|
| Tumbling reels | Winners crack and melt into the ice, everything above them slumps, and new pictures fall in from overhead. Each fresh win in the run outdoes the last: x1 on the spin itself, x2 next, x3 after, and x5 on every tumble beyond that. | Plowbank Ridge |
| Climbing multiplier | Inside the free round the multiplier only ever goes up a step; it does not drop back before the bulbs go out. | Stringlight Shinny |
| Sticky wild respin | A paid spin that turns up a wild yet pays nothing freezes every wild where it sits and sends the rest of the grid round again, free. | Lacing Bench |
| Last-reel respin | When a paid spin wins nothing but shows two scatters, the fifth reel gets one free extra turn to go looking for a third. | |
| Doubled free spins | The plain one: three scatters open free spins, with each win in them paid twice over. |
Each reel is a fixed strip of pictures. When you spin, the random number generator built into your browser picks a point on every strip independently. No spin remembers the one before, and nothing bends towards your balance or how many evenings you have spent on the ice.
For every world we run its own code through millions of spins to measure its return, hit rate and feature rate, and the results go into its paytable. They describe coin play in these free games and are no guide whatsoever to a real-money game.
Only grown-ups of 19 or over lace up at Pondpuck Village. Each world runs on virtual coins with no monetary value, and Bruntle lets nobody buy, sell, withdraw or exchange them. Search the whole village and you will find no coin shop, no payment page and no prize of real-world value, and a lucky evening on the slough does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
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