How the spin works

Fifteen slots, one spin, one link

There is no draw date and no one deciding when. A room spins the second its fifteenth slot is taken, and the result is checkable by anyone.

Pick a room and a number

Five rooms, £5 to £100 a slot. Fifteen numbers in each. Pick a free one.

Answer the question

One question to enter, every time. Get it wrong and you do not enter. This is what makes it a competition, and the free postal route asks the same question.

The room fills, the wheel spins

The moment slot fifteen goes, the wheel spins over the top of the page. The winning number is picked from a seed whose hash was published before the room filled.

Paid within five working days

The winner takes eleven times the stake by bank transfer. The seed is posted next to the result so the spin can be checked.

Fairness

Nobody here can touch the spin

Certified RNG

The random number generator is independently tested and audited before launch. Not something we wrote.

Spins on the last slot

The moment slot fifteen goes. No waiting, no deciding when.

Streamed and recorded

Every spin is on the results page, permanently, with its seed.

Seed published after

The seed’s hash is shown before the room fills, the seed after. Check it yourself.

The maths, plainly

When a room opens, a 256-bit seed is generated and its SHA-256 hash is shown on the room page. When the fifteenth slot is taken, the winner is calculated as the first eight hex characters of SHA-256(seed:gameID), read as a number, mod 15, plus one. The seed is then published next to the result. Because the hash was public before anyone knew who held which slot, the seed could not have been chosen to favour a number. You can recompute any result on the verify page.

If a room does not fill

Rooms are open for 30 days. If a room has not filled by then, every stake in it is refunded in full and the room closes without a spin. The Big One works the same way: no draw until all 1,200 tickets are sold, otherwise every ticket is refunded.

Free entry

You can enter any room or draw without paying. See the free entry route. Free entries answer the same question and take a slot in the same way.