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I think it’s more noticeable to win from free spins because they’re free, especially with small, regular wins building up and no auto play in the UK now. If you were to play normally on 20p and get 10 20p wins, you’d not really notice because the balance doesn’t increase, but if you get those on free spins that’s £2, which is 10x and seems a lot more substantial. Particularly considering as well that with free spins the winnings are accumulated and awarded at the end. I’m not sure if your free spins were on 20p, but if we assume they were then you got 50 free spins on 20p which would usually cost £10. So if that had been real money play and you had won £20 it would have been a short term RTP of 200% - double your money. It’s impressive, and not to be sniffed at, but not out of this world. Because they were free spins though, you won double that, so it seems twice as good 🙂

Ok guys as we begin the final week I just wanted to update you on where everyone is at. Of 55 entries in Week 1, 13 didn't come back in Week 2 (those are highlighted in orange). Of the 42 entries in Week 2, 19 then did not return for Week 3 (those are highlighted in yellow). We now have 23 people with the option to continue for this final week. Anyone with a highlighted name will still be entered into the merchandise draw, but will not be able to return to the Giveaway, even if they get a big win this week, so it will be one of the 23 non-highlighted names will win €10,000. Good luck to you all!

We know some sites might not have The Final Countdown, and if you’re pretty far from the top at the minute you might not want to spend more money or open new accounts to attempt to win, so we’re going to say that anyone who has submitted any entry over the 4 weeks will be included in the random draw for merch. Good luck to everyone this week - I have a suspicion we can narrow it down to 3 potential winners, but The Final Countdown can do some huge wins, so who knows!

@postmanpete yes there is an error with the picture, Week 4 ends 28th November at midnight GMT.

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Ok this is really weird and is definitely a YouTube issue by the looks of things, especially since you can join the chat on your laptop just not your phone. I would try uninstalling and reinstalling the app, but apart from that I’m not actually sure of any fixes, unless @Hideous can think of anything

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I think withdraw too, it’s always better to leave in profit and that is always my advice to someone else. On a personal level, the only time I would consider not withdrawing would be if I knew I was just going to redeposit the profit within the next few days anyway, at which point I might hold off to make use of the bonus money as it is a free way to play, and there’s a chance you may complete wagering. That said, if you are considering waiting it out and keeping the bonus money I would look at setting a daily loss limit, and perhaps also a time limit so you don’t just burn through the money in one day. The only benefit to not withdrawing would be to still have that cash bonus offer (which can be hard to get in the UK at the moment) waiting on you when you’ve spent your own money - but there’s no reason at all to accelerate that process. By the looks of your screenshot your bonus is valid for 30 days (although check wagering T&Cs to be sure), so if that £50 would usually be worth 4 or 5 days to you, then consider setting a £10 per day loss limit, so you get the desired level of entertainment from your money, rather than just one crazy night. I don’t know your financial situation though, and like I said walking away with profit is always a positive, particularly if you weren’t planning on playing for the next few weeks or so anyway, as by that point the bonus could be close to expiry I’m going to tag Charlie too - he’s a low stake player and I know he always takes a bonus when he’s offered, so he might have some advice. @Charlieace

Hi - I’m sorry I didn’t see this before tonight’s stream. The only requirement to join the chat is usually to be subscribed which is a function Will turns on. If you are subscribed you should be able to chat. If the chat hasn’t opened you can open it by clicking the circled button in the screenshot below. If it’s not working can you send me a screenshot of what you do see when Will is live? You might need to wait until Sunday when he’s live again to do it but I can check back here during Sunday night and sort it during the stream for you. Can you also let me know your YouTube username please so I can make sure you haven’t been accidentally removed? That shouldn’t be the case though as it would usually say “the owner of this channel does not permit you to chat” or something similar. Thanks

@Macklan no don’t be silly, work away and continue to keep track and keep people updated if you’d like to 🙂

No problem! I'll also say, I think it's really good you're doing well and sticking to your usual stakes - so many players would hit lucky and up their stakes and it can so often lead to disaster. It's great you're enjoying gambling - its supposed to be fun 🙂

I do see what you’re saying, but I’ve also told you that I have had the maximum available, not just through the standard mystery option but the maximum available in the whole game with 6 scatters, and didn’t even win the average cost of this back. Will has also bought a lot of Rick and Morty bonuses in his time and has had losing 20 spin returns and winning 10 spin returns. £4 on 10p is also 40x, so that’s not actually a good return for a bonus worth 100x bet (or worth 150x bet for the mystery), regardless of the spins you got.

They absolutely could all be the same outcome, and it wouldn’t surprise me. This has never been confirmed by Blueprint, because the element of choice is something players enjoy about their games, but I would say yeah - the value you will win is predetermined. There are a lot of games available that offer a ‘choice’ that has no bearing - a key in Goonies, Golden Fish Tank and Secret of the Stones, to name a few. All of these games would pay if the round expired, because the choices don’t actually matter. They just add some excitement for players. The same is probably true for the mystery on Rick and Morty Megaways or Temple of Treasure or any like that. I would particularly argue this for Rick and Morty as there is no element of ‘choice’ displayed, it’s just a wheel that spins. I know in the case of a game issue where a bonus has been lost that some providers will simulate 10 bonus rounds and award the player the average return, but I highly doubt they are doing that every time a pick bonus isn’t opened. The game will probably know what you win before you win it and the rest is just the usual bells and whistles. Not that this proves anything but since we are sharing experiences - when we had bonus buys in the UK I got 27 spins starting at a x10 multiplier on Buffalo Rising by starting with 6 Scatters and going for the mystery option. It paid less than my 100x stake back. On another occasion, I got a ‘bad’ result on the mystery choice on Temple of Treasure and got a huge win, the value of which I can’t remember. Point being that again it’s random, and I got very unlucky that night I played Buffalo. Again - this has never been proven, but I would have probably gotten the exact same result had I chosen a standard option, or revealed a worse mystery result. I recognise that I have repeatedly said ‘probably’ throughout this post - this isn’t to say I am doubting my stand point, but rather is out of respect to Blueprint who have chosen not to share this information before as far as I am aware. I do know gambling on The Goonies doesn’t matter as someone else did the work on this once, and spent hours/days looking at the code to see what was actually going on. That information is there for anyone to look at. It’s been a while since I looked at his work, but he was fairly spot on if I remember correctly. Besides, understanding these things and believing that no difference is made based upon your choice is very freeing, and actually makes the games more fun. I strongly believe allowing a choice like Temple of Treasure, whilst it is fun for some players, inevitably causes issues with others who have stronger emotional ties, probably putting them at risk for disappointment and anger for ‘choosing the wrong one’ or worse, accidentally choosing the wrong one.

@Claypole did enter both Week 1 and Week 2 @Macklan, I have both of his entries stored. I don’t mind that you are keeping track of things, but I’m going to ask that you don’t pull people up on errors and tell them they’ve made a mistake, particularly when you might be wrong. I appreciate the sentiment, but if I need additional information from anyone I can ask them for it myself

No, if you press spin and the game crashes when the reels are spinning, your outcome has already been determined - dead spin, bonus, max win, etc. So if you open the game back up, you'll get the win. If you don't open the game again before the round expires, the money will be added to your balance. If the game crashes on a non winning spin then there's no such thing as 'supposed to get a bonus next spin'. Your outcome wouldn't be determined until you spin, and if you aren't in the game to make that spin then no, you wouldn't get a bonus but you also wouldn't have spun so wouldn't get any outcome. There's no fate with it, and you can look at it the opposite way. If you press spin and lose two spins in a row, then you've lost 40p (for example). Now, if the game had crashed after your first spin, you would have lost 20p - half the amount. If you had then re-opened the game, whether it be 40 seconds later or 40 minutes later, you might have gotten a bonus on that second spin. Your outcome is never determined until you spin. Obviously, this can never be tested because we can never do something, then go back in time and do it a different way to check. If they ever do invent time travel, I would defo do better things with it too 😂 Whether you think there's collusion or not, it's an absolute fact of how Random Number Generators work - they're used in many other legitimate applications such as encryption, not just slots. So whether you think casinos intentionally kick you out of games or not, it remains a fact that they aren't doing it because you would have gotten a bonus - no one knows what will happen until you press spin, and by that point even if the game does crash you've earned your winnings and they can't undo that with a simple game crash.

With this said you probably shouldn't gamble because yes, you do have to take their say so. People don't realise the level of 'cahoots' that would be required when they say these things. You're talking about the United Kingdom Gambling Commission, working hand in hand with the Betting and Gaming Council and the ASA, along with every licensed casino and operator. There will be hundreds, if not thousands of people that will go through employment in these companies, and based upon the level of jobs being offered, many would have access to the information you say. It's highly unlikely no one would ever have come forward, unless everyone joining these companies is signing an NDA. Same with providers - it's fine to say the CEOs and top levels are rich, but the guys programming the maths are in salaried positions, and could get a job anywhere because they're talented. Is the implication that the young guy working for Push Gaming is programming slots to rip people off, despite not earning any extra money for it and not reaping those financial rewards? He goes to work every day and commits fraud against millions of people worldwide, and takes home a regular salary for that risk? Bottom line is, it's luck - you've said yourself you win sometimes, and that's great. You're massively up at Skol Casino especially on low stakes, and you've said they won't get it back. If you never return to that casino, you won and they lost in your personal relationship. There's never a guarantee that a player will return to play a second time, so if there truly was corruption no one would win, or else we'd end up with your Skol situation - you took £1,204.84 from them. The thing about the casino industry is that it's already in the favour of the casinos and operators - the house always has the edge. There doesn't need to be corruption - players are willing to play knowing the edge isn't in their favour, and continue to play as RTP gets lower.

Sorry I should have also said - with regards to returning and getting the bonus straight away, you would have gotten that money had you not returned. The bonus isn't actually what pays you the money - it's all one spin, so because you had pressed spin before the game crashed, your bonus had been triggered, and you were winning that money no matter what, kind of like saving a bonus for a bonus hunt. Had you not returned, the bonus would eventually have expired and the money would have been added to your balance. Providers differ on the length of time they allow you to watch this live - some are 24 hours, some go up to 7 days, and with Yggdrasil they actually will give you the option even if you return one minute later to just skip the bonus and add the money to your balance, or rewatch the winning spin - which is the bonus. You would have gotten the money for sure.