The open yard where yarn is drawn through a kettle of hot pitch and hung out to cool, black and faintly shining. An even-tempered machine whose wilds will not be shaken loose.
The games are free and always will be. The account keeps your 100,000 coins, favourites, level and daily missions between visits — and lets us confirm you are 18 or over before you spin.
Virtual coins only. No real-money gambling, no prizes of real-world value, no in-app purchases. 18+.
Tar Kettle Yard is the world most players settle into once the account is open. It pays a little more often than the walk does and asks less patience in return, which suits an hour meant to be quiet. Every Kettle Crest wild that lands locks to its place while the reels around it turn again for nothing; land another during that respin and the whole arrangement holds once more. Three Cooper Mallets anywhere open ten free spins paying double, four open fifteen, and all five open twenty-five.
Held in Pitch. A wild that lands stays where it is for one respin, and every respin that brings another wild buys itself one more, so a good run can be held for several turns.
Everything here is played with free virtual coins. There is no real-money gambling, nothing you win has real-world value, and there are no in-app purchases. Results come from a random number generator; past spins never affect the next one.
Measured by running this page's own engine for 5,000,000 spins: coin RTP 96.8%, hit frequency 46.5%, free spins about once in 115 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 103 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Sign in to your free account, step into the yard and choose a stake for the reels.
Spin. The Kettle Crest wild covers for everything in the yard except the Cooper Mallet.
Any wild that lands sticks for one respin, and a fresh wild during that respin buys another.
Players after an even, undramatic machine with one clear extra to follow and no long silences to sit through.
Frequent small returns and a steady middle. The respins do the work here, and a run of three or four held wilds is the usual peak of a session.
| Symbol | Five on a line | Same, as a share of the stake |
|---|---|---|
 Kettle Crest (wild) | 4,000× line bet | 160× your stake |
 Tarred Bundle | 2,200× line bet | 88× your stake |
 Yard Gull | 1,100× line bet | 44× your stake |
 Tar Barrels | 650× line bet | 26× your stake |
 Long Dipper | 440× line bet | 17.6× your stake |
 Tar Kettle | 260× line bet | 10.4× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Cooper Mallets anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
One respin, and then another for every new wild landing during it. In practice a good run holds for two or three turns and occasionally longer.
It is worth having, though the machine is not built around it. Three mallets open ten spins at double, and the round sits on top of the respins rather than replacing them.
Because it asks the least patience. The walk is moodier and the closing cart is louder; the yard pays little and often, which is what most evenings actually want.
Missions reset every day and work across every world. They are optional.
The spinning end at first light, with a quarter mile of pale yarn running away between the posts and fibre hanging in the air. This is the world Hitch leaves open to everybody on the front page, and its free round lengthens the way the walk does.
The closing end, where the heavy top cart rides back along its rails and three strands become one hawser. The highest-strung world on the walk and the one that pays longest when it goes.
Play for fun, and stop when it stops being fun. Set a time limit before you start and take breaks. If gambling of any kind is causing you problems, the National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0808 8020 133, 24 hours a day, or visit GamCare and BeGambleAware. Read our responsible play policy.
Ropewalk Rooms is for adults aged 18 or over. Every game is played with virtual coins that have no monetary value and cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged. There is no coin shop and no payment page anywhere on this site, no prizes of real-world value are offered, and success here does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
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Three worlds share one balance. A free account opens every one of them and keeps your coins, favourites, level and daily missions between visits.
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