The Bog Run: free roguelike run game for XP

Each spin is an attempt to find your way across the current floor. Lanterns and keys build your progress toward the far side.

Fog and hounds raise the alarm the longer you push on — balance moving fast against staying quiet.

Clearing a floor offers a choice: take the quiet route to cool the alarm down, or the bold route for more ground at greater risk.

Max out the alarm and you are caught — the run ends there and your score for that run is halved. Reach the clear ground and you complete the run for a large XP bonus.

Every run starts fresh. There is no cash prize; the score kept during a run is for flavour only, and XP is the only lasting reward.

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.

The Bog Run 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.