Every room in the VegasNow game lobby

Our catalogue draws on many studios, among them Pragmatic Play, Novomatic, Belatra, BGaming and Evolution. Each one has a recognisable style, so the studio name on a tile is a useful shortcut when you are deciding what to open next.

Pragmatic Play supplies Gates of Olympus in three versions (the original, Gates of Olympus 1000 and Gates of Olympus Super Scatter), Sweet Bonanza, Chilli Heat and dice-style games such as Big Bass Dice and Fruit Party Dice. Its live arm, Pragmatic Play Live, runs tables including Fortune Roulette.

Novomatic is the home of the Book of Ra family: the classic game, Book of Ra deluxe and Book of Ra Magic. These are five-reel, ten-line slots that Novomatic rates 5 on its own volatility scale, built around an expanding-symbol free games feature. Our Book of Ra guide sets the three versions side by side.

BGaming brings Elvis Frog in Vegas, Wild Cash x9990 and Snoop Dogg Dollars, while Belatra supplies titles such as Mummyland Treasures. On the live side, Evolution runs Crazy Time, Lightning Roulette, XXXTreme Lightning Roulette and several blackjack variants.

The five names above are the ones most players already know, but our provider list runs a good deal longer. Opening a studio you have never tried is an easy way to find a different style, because each one tends to reuse its favourite ideas.

Quickspin, PG Soft, Booming Games, Slotmill and Spinomenal are on the list too. We pair a studio with a title only where the catalogue does, and what opens still depends on your account and region.

Most pokies in our lobby are built from a handful of feature types, and recognising them makes the paytable much quicker to read.

Tumbles and pay-anywhere wins. In Gates of Olympus, winning symbols disappear and new ones drop into place, so one spin can pay several times. Wins need 8 to 30 matching symbols anywhere on the grid rather than along fixed lines, and any multiplier symbols that land are added together and applied to the win.

Expanding symbols. The Book of Ra family picks a special symbol for the free games that can spread across a whole reel. Book of Ra Magic awards 10 free games and can select up to nine special expanding symbols at random, which is where its biggest rounds come from.

Money symbols and respins. Chilli Heat from Pragmatic Play, a 5-reel, 3-row game, starts its money feature when six or more money symbols land. You get three respins, and each new money symbol resets the count to three. Three scatters trigger its free spins instead.

Bonus multipliers and super scatters. Wild Cash x9990 runs a bonus game with an x3 or x10 multiplier across its 10 lines, while Gates of Olympus Super Scatter adds Super Scatters that award 100×, 500×, 5,000× or 50,000× when one to four land in the feature.

Many games share a name or mascot with another title, and the shared artwork hides real differences in the rules. Treat any extra word in a name as a separate game.

• The three Olympus tiles. The 96.50% RTP and 15-spin scatter feature belong to the original. Gates of Olympus 1000 and Super Scatter have their own rules, and only Super Scatter carries the 50,000× ceiling.
• Book of Ra deluxe and Book Of Ra Magic. Same studio and five-reel, ten-line frame, yet only Magic runs 10 free games with up to nine expanding symbols.
• Suffixes and sequels. Big Bass Dice, The Great Pigsby Megaways and Lucky Penny 2 x1000 each play by rules of their own.
• Numbered live tables. Emerald Blackjack 95 and Emerald Blackjack 105 are separate tables listed under their own names, so note the full name if you want to sit at the same one again.

The name on the loading screen governs the game, so if an outside figure disagrees with the info panel, trust the panel. Our Gates of Olympus page shows why.

There is no VegasNow app in the App Store or Google Play, and you do not need one: the whole lobby, live studios included, opens in Safari or Chrome. Add an icon through Safari's Share button or Chrome's menu, as our mobile page shows. Ignore APK files offered on other websites; they are not ours.

On a small screen, glance at the stake before the first spin or hand, since bet selectors are easy to nudge by accident. The A$8 cap applies on a phone exactly as it does on a laptop while a bonus is running, and your Saved list is there on both.

Turning the stake totals above into rounds shows how much play each choice really involves, because the A$8 cap stops you shortening the job with bigger bets.

Over seven days, 750 pokie spins at the cap is about 107 a day; 7,500 blackjack hands is more than a thousand daily. That is plain multiplication, not a forecast, and it assumes your pokie is not on the exceptions list. The welcome bonus page sets out each stage so you can size the target first.

Some of our weekly offers are tied to particular games. Friday Night Spotlight picks a featured pokie each week and gives 40 free spins on it for every qualifying Friday deposit, so it is a simple way to try something new from the lobby. Lucky 7s Load Up, every Tuesday, matches 77% of a deposit up to A$77 and can be claimed on more than one deposit. Codes and full conditions for each offer are shown in your account, and the weekly promotions page lists the whole calendar.

Pokie outcomes are produced by the studio's game software, and the RTP figures above are the studios' own published numbers for those titles. Live games are dealt and spun on camera in the provider's studio, so you see each card and each spin as it happens.

Results in live games follow the physical wheel, cards or bonus round, and the payouts follow the rules shown on each table. Side bets and bonus segments carry their own pay tables, so read those before you add them to a round. If a game ever behaves in a way you do not expect, note the time and the game name and contact our customer care team at support@vegasnow.com; the support page explains what details help us look into it.

No strategy changes a game's long-run return. What you can control is your stake, your session length and whether you take a bonus.

Samuel Thomas, VegasNow

You can read the studios' own rules for the featured titles on Pragmatic Play's Gates of Olympus page and Evolution's Crazy Time rules.

Every title here is offered by Just Entertainment B.V., Curaçao company number 160603, under Curaçao Gaming Authority licence OGL/2024/164/0246, held since 13 August 2024. The public licence validator shows its current status and approved domains.

A game in the artwork is not automatically open to your account, since availability varies by account and region, and play is 18+ only. We also skip quoting a catalogue total: titles come and go, so any count would date quickly.