Skates hang from pegs above a split-log bench while the drum woodstove glows orange in the warming shack. It is the gentlest machine on the pond, and whenever a paid spin comes up empty, its Ember Blade wilds stay warm for one free respin.
It never costs a dollar. Your account minds the 100,000 coins, your favourites, your level and your daily missions while you are off the ice — and it is how we confirm you are 19 or over before you spin.
Virtual coins, full stop. No real-money gambling, nothing won that has real-world value, no in-app purchases. 19+.
Lacing Bench is the calmest corner of the pond, built for long, unhurried sessions within reach of the stove. Its value is spread across the socks, the hone and the butter tarts, so small returns keep turning up. The Ember Blade wild covers every symbol but the Red Guards. When a paid spin pays nothing, any Ember Blades on the grid stay put and the other reels take one free respin to build a line round them. Three Red Guards anywhere start ten free spins, a set of four makes it fifteen and a full five twenty-five, and guards landing during the round add extra spins.
Warm Hands Respin. If a paid spin pays nothing, each Ember Blade wild stays warming where it landed and the cold positions round it get one more free spin.
Every spin on this ice uses free virtual coins: no real-money gambling, no win worth anything in the real world, and nothing for sale in-app. A random number generator settles each result, and no spin bends the next.
Measured by running this page's own engine for 10,000,000 spins: coin RTP 94.9%, hit frequency 47.0%, free spins about once in 120 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 109 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Sign in, push open the warming-shack door and pick a stake beside the stove.
Spin. Ember Blade wilds replace everything but the Red Guards; after an empty paid spin the blades stay warming by the stove and every cold spot on the grid spins once more, free.
Three Red Guards bring ten free spins; land a fourth for fifteen or a full five for twenty-five.
Players who like to linger by the drum stove, collecting frequent small wins and getting another try when wilds land on a quiet spin.
The steadiest machine at the pond. Little wins come often, and the warm-hands respin softens the odd empty spin.
| Pond picture | Five of a picture along one line | Same win, as part of the whole stake |
|---|---|---|
 Ember Blade (wild) | 4,000× line bet | 160× your stake |
 Drum Stove | 2,200× line bet | 88× your stake |
 Skate Rack | 1,100× line bet | 44× your stake |
 Butter Tarts | 650× line bet | 26× your stake |
 Pocket Hone | 440× line bet | 17.6× your stake |
 Banded Socks | 260× line bet | 10.4× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Red Guardss anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
After any paid spin that wins nothing. Ember Blade wilds already showing keep their spots, and the other positions get one more free turn.
No. Only paid spins get it; in the free round you just play out your ten, fifteen or twenty-five spins.
No. Red Guards are the scatter, and the Ember Blade wild never copies them.
Bruntle pins up fresh chores every morning; they count in all three worlds and nobody makes you do them.
Zigzag bulbs swing over the cleared slough, a pair of rubber boots marks the far goal and a puck waits at centre ice. It spins for anybody right here with no account, and its free-round multiplier lights up bulb by bulb and never goes dark again.
High plowed banks curl round the pond under a pink sunset, with the grain elevator glowing far out on the flat. Winning pictures slump off the ridge, new ones slide down, and every slide in a row is worth a bigger multiple.
Play for laughs, and leave the ice once the laughs stop. Pick an hour to finish before you start, and get up for breaks. If gambling of any sort is doing you harm, ConnexOntario is free and confidential on 1-866-531-2600, day and night, and the Responsible Gambling Council and CCSA are there too. Bruntle’s responsible play policy covers the rest.
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.
Gambling weighing on you? Talk it through, free and in confidence, with ConnexOntario 1-866-531-2600 at any hour · CCSA · Responsible Gambling Council · How Bruntle keeps play sensible
All three worlds dip into one coin jar. Sign up free and Bruntle opens every one, keeping your coins, favourites, level and daily missions by the stove until your next skate.
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