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.
Bruntle leaves the lights on for everybody, so Stringlight Shinny is waiting before you have even pulled your mitts off. Its pace is middling: paid spins slide back small wins like easy passes along the boards, and the free round holds most of the thrill. On this ice the Taped Cross wild can play any position except the Boot Posts. Three Boot Posts anywhere start Bulb After Bulb with ten free spins; the multiplier lights up through x2 and x3 and then glows at x4 until the bulbs are unplugged. Four pairs of boots on the ice stretch the shinny game to fifteen spins, five pairs to twenty-two, and boots dropping mid-round add more.
Bulb After Bulb. Bulbs one and two of the free round shine at x2, bulbs three and four at x3, and from bulb five to the end of the round every win is lit at x4; a lit bulb never goes out.
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 92.8%, hit frequency 36.1%, free spins about once in 132 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 127 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Open the page and the bulbs are already lit, with a mitt of play coins waiting at the boards. Bruntle never asks your name, and no file lands on your machine.
Set a stake and spin. The Taped Cross wild plays every picture except the Boot Posts.
Three Boot Posts start Bulb After Bulb: ten free spins whose string glows x2, x2, x3, x3, then burns at x4 to the final spin.
First-timers on the slough, and anyone who wants a few laps under the lights before asking Bruntle for the shack key. Medium paced, with a free round that brightens as it goes.
Paid spins hand back small wins fairly often. The bigger moments sit late in Bulb After Bulb, once the whole string is glowing at x4.
| Pond picture | Five of a picture along one line | Same win, as part of the whole stake |
|---|---|---|
 Taped Cross (wild) | 5,000× line bet | 200× your stake |
 Pipe Net | 2,600× line bet | 104× your stake |
 Taped Hook | 1,400× line bet | 56× your stake |
 Knotted Skates | 800× line bet | 32× your stake |
 Iced Biscuit | 550× line bet | 22× your stake |
 Friction Tape | 320× line bet | 12.8× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Boot Postss anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
No. The shinny ice is open to everybody on the page itself; the shack and the ridge are the pair behind a free account.
Yes. Bruntle shakes your shinny mitt out onto the 100,000 coins already looped on every fresh shack key.
Yes. Land three or more during the round for extra spins; the multiplier keeps whichever bulb it had already lit.
Bruntle pins up fresh chores every morning; they count in all three worlds and nobody makes you do them.
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.
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.
Not ready? Spin the open world, Stringlight Shinny — no email needed.