Intended Audience
This guide is intended for adults aged 18 and over. That is the guide's audience policy, not a statement about local law or an implemented age check. Virtual coins have no cash value, cannot be withdrawn, and provide no prizes.
Set Limits Before Starting
Choose a time or round limit before beginning. Monitor it yourself: the demo has no session timer, account blocking, or self-exclusion tool. Manual balance restoration need not be a reason to extend a session.
Taking a Break
After a safe reveal, you can bank before stepping away. Before your first safe reveal, banking is unavailable. You may close the page at any time, but an unfinished round will not resume and its stake will not be refunded. Leaving the page open without clicking does not settle a Mines round.
Do Not Chase Lost Coins
For supported cell choices and banking policies, expected gross return is exactly 96% of the captured stake before whole-coin rounding. This includes returned stake, not 96% profit, and does not guarantee any individual round or session. A safe transition with probability Nnext / N pays a quote proportional to 1 / Nnext, where Nnext is the compatible-board count after that safe reveal; a mine pays zero. That relationship preserves the current expected gross value. Reloading an unfinished round is outside those settlement policies.
A new round selects a new board independently. Previous losses do not guarantee a safe next cell or a profitable next round. You may stop without increasing the stake or restoring the wallet to replace lost coins.
Seeking Help
Choose a time or round limit before starting and monitor it yourself. Stop when you reach it; you do not need to replace lost virtual coins. If playing interferes with daily life or becomes difficult to stop, seek qualified local professional help or a support service you can independently verify. This guide provides no diagnosis or clinical service.
Privacy and Guide Limits
The demo stores balance and fractional carry in browser localStorage for this site. This is not an account synchronised across devices and has no email-based recovery. A browser can restrict or erase this storage, so it is not a permanent backup. Local storage and account-free use do not establish anonymity or exclude other data processing.
This demo is not treatment and does not establish the safety of outside services. Balance restoration is a wallet function, not professional support.
Frequently asked questions
Does the demo enforce my time limit?
No. You must monitor your own limit and breaks.
Does 96% cap the amount I can lose?
No. It is an expected gross return, not a loss limit or guaranteed session outcome.
What happens if I close an active round?
Reloading or closing the page during an unfinished round ends it without refund or resume. The stake was debited when the round started. Stored balance and carry can be read again while the site storage remains available. Clearing site data can erase both; clearing cached files alone may leave localStorage intact.
