How we check

The four rules

1. A number needs a source we can name. The 98% return on the home page is the studio's published figure for the title, and it is described that way every time it appears. We have not measured it, and we would need millions of rounds to.

2. A claim about behaviour needs an observation. We do not print payout speeds, because printing “pays in fifteen minutes” requires having timed withdrawals, repeatedly, at that operator. Where we have not, the figure is absent rather than estimated.

3. An unread list is not a permission. Operators publish restricted-country lists and change them without notice. If we have not read one, we say the list is unread. We never convert silence into “accepts everyone”.

4. Unknown is a publishable answer. The expected value of the bonus buy is the clearest example on this site: the price is public, the grant is public, and the value is not. So the page says so instead of filling the gap with a plausible percentage.

What that rules out

• Invented testing. Nobody here claims to have played thousands of rounds at an operator to produce a verdict.
• Borrowed screenshots. Images on this site are our own work. We do not lift captures from other sites or from operators' press kits.
• Reverse-engineered odds. Lane counts and printed ladders come from the game's own screen. The distribution behind them does not, and we do not model it and present the model as a measurement.
• Rankings dressed as verdicts. Since the advertising link here routes by region, a named league table would be a fiction for most readers — see where to play.

Every figure that survives these rules ends up on the crypto chicken road home page, where the game and its cashier are described in one place.

What we do publish

The game's own arithmetic, because it is visible before a single press: lane counts of 30, 25, 22 and 18; the first rungs of each ladder; the sequel's four ceilings; the bonus buy at a hundred stakes and its three-to-nine rounds. Those are on the screen of every copy of the game, and any reader can check them in a demo in two minutes.

And the structure of the money: what a deposit passes through, where a withdrawal stalls, what a bonus condition actually says. That is documentary work — reading terms and cashier pages — and it is described as such on the crypto cashier page.

The same rules govern the about page, which states who writes this and how it is funded.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, we would rather know. The contact page has the address, and a correction that arrives with a source attached gets made the same day.

The commercial part, stated plainly

This site carries advertising for a gambling operator and is paid when a reader opens an account through it. The advertising blocks are labelled as advertisements. The editorial pages are not for sale: the ladders, the lane counts and the bonus buy price would be the same numbers on a site with no partner at all, because they are the game's and not ours.