Hold and Nudge: free fruit machine game for XP

Press Spin to turn all three reels. If you like what you see, hold any reel and respin the rest, or spend a nudge to slide one reel into line.

Holding and nudging are optional on every spin — you can also just collect a straight spin and go again.

Any winning line pays XP, but a win you engineer with a hold, a nudge or a respin pays an extra 50 percent on top.

Nudges are limited and handed out at random after a spin, so use them when they count.

There is no cash payout of any kind. Every result converts to XP only, and the best win shown is for your own reference, not a prize.

XP is the score kept on this site. It has no cash value, cannot be bought, cannot be exchanged for anything at any casino, and exists so that the daily, weekly and all-time tables on the leaderboard have something to rank. Every game on the free games shelf pays into the same balance, as do the trainers in the academy, the daily search bonus and the hidden hat.

Hold and Nudge pays XP for the events listed in the rules above and for nothing else. There is no return-to-player figure because there is no player money: the reels are tuned to be readable and fun, not to model any real slot, and nothing that happens here is a promise about how a real game behaves. The house edge calculator is where the real numbers live.

Progress is saved in this browser under a ticket you name the first time XP is earned. Clear the browser and the ticket is gone, so keep the nickname somewhere. Balances sync to the table every few seconds while the tab is open, and a stake lost in the vault comes off the table like any other loss.