Editorial Guidelines

These are the rules we write to. Publishing them means a reader can check whether we actually follow them, which is the only reason any site should bother putting its standards in public.

Sourcing

Game facts come out of the information panel inside the title itself, or out of IGT’s own documentation. Operator facts come from the operator’s site and terms, and we look up the licence number on the Gambling Commission register before writing a word about it. Other review sites are not a source for us.

That last rule exists for a specific reason. Three separate sites currently describe this game as having a random pixie that turns wild during free spins, which is not a mechanic IGT built. The wild simply starts appearing on reel 1, where the base game never places it. Several others list the low symbols as toadstools and acorns when the paytable plainly shows card ranks. One of those errors got copied, then copied again, and now it outranks the correct version on some searches.

Legitimate sources disagree sometimes too. The return figure for this title is published as 93.95% in some places and 94.90% in others, and both are real, because IGT licenses more than one build. We print the range, say why it exists, and point readers at the in-game panel for the figure that applies to their session.

Writing

Plain English. Short sentences where they earn the space. No vocabulary borrowed off an operator’s homepage, and no adjective doing work that a number could do better. The test is whether someone finishes a paragraph knowing a specific thing. Terms get explained the first time they appear, so a reader meeting the phrase cluster pays or tumbling reels for the first time is not left guessing.

A claim stands on its own or it does not run. Untraceable back to the panel, the terms or the register, and it stays out.

Independence

We carry commercial links and we disclose them. What they have never bought is a rating, a ranking position or a kinder paragraph buried in the middle. No writer here gets told which operator to favour. Nobody outside the editorial team reads a piece before publication, and that single rule shuts off the usual route by which affiliate money quietly bends a review.

Operators unhappy with coverage can ask us to pull it, and occasionally pulling it is the right call. Rewriting the verdict is not on offer to them. A judgement that moves when somebody emails about it was never worth reading.

Safer gambling in every piece

Risk goes beside the features, not in grey text above the footer. Nothing we publish calls gambling a way to make money, promises a win, or labels an approach low risk. The 18 plus restriction and the GamCare helpline on 0808 8020 133 appear wherever real money play comes up.

Corrections

Verified mistakes get fixed in the body of the text, immediately. Nobody reads a correction note at the foot of a page and we see little point pretending otherwise. If a fix changes what we recommended, we say so and explain what moved. Reader reports go to [email protected] and get checked against the sources above before anything is edited.

One example from this year. A reader flagged that our bonus section described a retrigger during free spins. It does not exist in this game, because the bonus symbols leave the reels for the duration of the feature. The section came out the same afternoon.

Review cycle

Pages get revisited on a schedule and again whenever IGT ships an update, an operator changes its terms or UK regulation moves. The April 2025 stake cap of £5 a spin rewrote several paragraphs across this site in a single week. Anything no longer verifiable comes out of the text, so pages sometimes end a review shorter than they began it.