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  "schema": "flickloot.math.v1",
  "build": {
    "md5": "bb6052226ce1d9322ae1e6567b525f4d",
    "generatedAt": "2026-10-05T10:48:42.654Z"
  },
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    "faro-dorado": {
      "rtp": 94.73375,
      "basis": "measured",
      "kind": "reference-run",
      "seed": "0x6d2b79f5",
      "samples": 400000,
      "interval": "±0.72 at 95%",
      "method": "20 stops per reel — 🍊×5, 🌊×5, ⚓×4, ⭐×3, 🪙×2, WILD×1 — five fixed lines. Five reels of twenty stops is 3.2 million grids; enumerating them in a browser tab is not reasonable, so this figure is measured rather than derived, and the button below measures it again."
    },
    "andaluz-nights": {
      "rtp": 95.97037037037038,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Fifteen stops, three reels, one line: 3,375 possible outcomes. Every one of them was enumerated when this page loaded, so the figure beside the title is not an estimate and has no error bar."
    },
    "cosmic-cascade": {
      "rtp": 96.43588477366256,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Five independent draws; a symbol pays wherever it lands. The return is the binomial sum over each symbol's 3, 4 and 5-of-a-kind probabilities — solved in closed form, not sampled."
    },
    "plinko": {
      "rtp": 96.328125,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Twelve fair binary decisions produce the binomial distribution over thirteen slots. Multiply each slot's probability by its multiplier and you have the return exactly — no simulation needed, and none used."
    },
    "mines": {
      "rtp": 97,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Multiplier after k safe picks is C(25,k)/C(25−M,k) × 0.97. Because the multiplier is the true fair price scaled by a constant, the return is 97% at every cash-out point — one tile or twenty, one mine or twenty-four."
    },
    "crash": {
      "rtp": 97,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "The stopping point is drawn as (1−0.03)/(1−r) with r uniform, before the curve moves. The chance of reaching any multiplier X is exactly 0.97/X, so cashing at X returns 97% for every X. Waiting buys variance, not value."
    },
    "hi-lo": {
      "rtp": 97,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Each button's payout is fair odds computed from the visible card, times 0.97. Cards are drawn with replacement, so no count develops and every decision carries the same 97%."
    },
    "roulette": {
      "rtp": 97.2972972972973,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Single zero, 37 pockets, every bet priced as though there were 36. That gives 36/37 on the even-money bets, the dozens and the straight-up zero alike — identical, which is why 'better bets' at roulette do not exist."
    },
    "baccarat": {
      "rtp": 99.05880000011803,
      "basis": "measured",
      "kind": "reference-run",
      "seed": "0x6d2b79f5",
      "samples": 200000,
      "interval": "±0.41 at 95%",
      "method": "Full third-card drawing rules under an infinite-deck model, measured over 200,000 rounds at load. The three bets do not share a return: banker and player are close, and tie is far worse than either."
    },
    "poker": {
      "rtp": 89.72333333333333,
      "basis": "measured",
      "kind": "reference-run",
      "seed": "0x6d2b79f5",
      "samples": 60000,
      "interval": "87–93%",
      "method": "Full-pay 9/6 Jacks or Better. The paytable is fixed but the return is not: it depends entirely on which cards are held. The figure shown is what a simple heuristic achieves over 60,000 hands. Optimal play on this paytable is about 99.5% — the gap between those two numbers is the player's own contribution, and no other game here has one."
    },
    "blackjack": {
      "rtp": 99.76452967698104,
      "basis": "measured",
      "kind": "reference-run",
      "seed": "0x6d2b79f5",
      "samples": 60000,
      "interval": "±0.81 at 95%",
      "method": "Dealer stands on all 17s, blackjack pays 3:2, doubling allowed on any two cards, no splits. Measured over 60,000 hands played by a simplified basic strategy. Splits would add roughly half a point; a 6:5 blackjack payout — now common on casino floors — would remove about 1.4 points, which is the single most expensive rule change in the game."
    },
    "scratch": {
      "rtp": 94.921875,
      "basis": "exact",
      "kind": "exact",
      "interval": null,
      "method": "Three cells drawn from eight symbols: 512 possible cards, all enumerated at load. Three of a kind pays by symbol; any pair returns half the stake."
    }
  }
}