What these cover
One multiplication and the handful of clauses that change it. That is the whole subject, and it takes about ten minutes to learn once and seconds to apply after that.
What a signup bonus actually costs
One multiplication turns any headline into a figure you can compare.
Wagering requirements, worked through
The multiple, the base it applies to, and the two clauses that change both.
Game weighting, the clause that multiplies
Why the same bonus is 40x on slots and 800x on blackjack.
Reading bonus terms in two minutes
Seven clauses out of several thousand words, and where each one hides.
Comparing two offers properly
Four figures per offer, all published, and the three that look comparable but are not.
When to decline the bonus
Declining is a real option and on some terms it is the better one.
What crypto changes about a bonus
The balance moves while you clear it, which no fiat bonus does.
The bonus abuse clause
Deliberately broad everywhere. How much discretion it hands the operator.
The order worth doing them in
- Price the offerBonus times multiple, on the right base.
- Check the weightingFor the games you actually intend to play.
- Find the two hard limitsMaximum bet, and the cap on what can be withdrawn.
- Decide whether to take it at allDeclining is a real option and sometimes the right one.
Behind the buttons
Where every button on this site leads
A cashier in six settlement assets, a licence that resolves in the regulator's own certificate portal, and bonus terms that state the wagering multiple as a figure rather than as a sentence.
- Wagering as a numbernot as a paragraph
- Six settlement assetsno card at the cashier
- Licence in a public registernumber and reading date printed
18+ · a bonus is turnover, not money. Read the multiple before the headline
The two mistakes these guides exist to prevent
The first is comparing offers by headline. It is the default behaviour, it is what every list in this subject encourages, and in this register it systematically selects the most expensive offers available. The fix is one multiplication.
The second is accepting an offer whose requirement does not fit how you actually play. A perfectly reasonable bonus becomes unreachable at ten per cent game weighting or inside a seven-day window, and neither of those facts appears in the banner. The fix is two lines of the terms, read before depositing.
Everything else in these guides is detail hanging off those two points. The calculation itself is set out on how this is worked out, and what this site does and does not publish is on the about page.
What no guide can tell you
Whether you will come out ahead. A bonus lowers the expected cost of play; it does not reverse its direction. Anything promising otherwise is selling something.
Three places this leads next: every offer, priced, the arithmetic and the casinos. Every figure on this site comes out of the same multiplication, which is why the numbers on one page never contradict the numbers on another.