Reading the stars
Everything about how the chart, the credits and the games behave, set down in one place.
Signing up
You need a free account to launch any star. It asks for four things only: a nickname, an email, a password and confirmation that you are an adult aged 18+ living in the UK. We never request a card and never send a verification email — there is simply nothing here to pay for. Deleting the account later takes a single button and erases everything linked to it.
About Play Credits
Your first visit brings 100,000 Play Credits. One balance, one level and one journal follow you from star to star. These credits are pretend money. No one can buy them, sell them, hand them over, cash them out or trade them for anything, and every amount you win stays inside the game with no value beyond it.
- Fresh credits land free every four hours.
- Daily goals reward you with credits.
- Each new level brings a credit gift.
- Should the balance dip under 2,000, it is topped up straight away at no cost.
Chart and journal
The sky chart plots all 35 worlds as stars grouped into 6 constellations. Pan, zoom and tap any star to open it. Its pin button sends the world to your star journal, which sits in your browser and acts purely as a bookmark: pinning unlocks nothing and earns nothing.
Brightness levels
We describe each world by brightness, calculated by running that world’s own code millions of times and counting how often a spin returns something:
| Weather | Spins that pay | What it feels like |
|---|---|---|
| Soft glow | 40% or more | A gentle, even shimmer. Wins land often and tend to be small. |
| Bright | 28% to 40% | Balanced light: a steady flow of returns with the odd brighter flare. |
| Supernova | under 28% | Long dark spells broken by dazzling bursts. Fewer spins return anything, but the peaks climb highest. |
Brightness is a portrait of pacing. It cannot tell you what your next spin will do.
Mechanics
| Feature | What it does | Worlds |
|---|---|---|
| Free-spin climbs | Three or more scatters open a round of free spins. The multiplier climbs with every spin you play in the round. | Hooting Meridian, Tailnet Station, Raven Archive, Inkline Proofroom, Harvest Moon Hill, Maple Moon Terrace, Bayou Glimmer, Willow Blue Pavilion, Earthrise Grill, Sunline Cruiser, Sunset Rollerway, Lamppost Layby |
| Pick-a-star bonus | Three or more scatters lay out. | Nocturne Gallery, Lavender Dispensary, Brewlight Snug, Dusk Tide Hut, Starhangar Nine, Last Stone Sweep |
| Growing wilds | A wild that lands on reel 2, 3 or 4 grows to fill the whole reel before anything is paid, in the base game and in free spins.. | Heather Summit, Shooting Star Ledge, Moonward Pages, Midnight Typesetter |
| Locked wild respins | When a spin pays nothing but shows a wild, the wilds stay where they are and the other cells spin once more for free.. | Gilded Ascent, Lavender Lookout, Cloudsill Apothecary, Glitterbay Ballroom, Nebula Lounge |
| Falling-star tumbles | Winning symbols vanish, the rest fall and new ones drop in. Each tumble in a row pays more. | Ringgate Relay, Clearice Causeway, Runestone Lights |
| Wild boosters | Every wild lands carrying a multiplier of x2, x3 or x5. A line that uses a wild is paid at its highest multiplier.. | Wisp Reading Room, Jade Lantern Row, Emerald Plume Salon, Butterfly Vitrine, Bullseye Hall |
Reading a payline
All worlds share a five-by-three grid. Matching symbols score from the leftmost reel rightwards along fixed paylines. Your bet is divided equally between the lines, and each line pays only its single best combination. Scatters count wherever they land and pay a multiple of the total bet.
Where the randomness comes from
Each reel carries a set strip of symbols. On every spin your browser’s random number generator chooses a fresh, independent stopping point on each strip. Earlier spins have no influence, and the games never adjust to your balance or to how long you have been playing.
Numbers we checked ourselves
The table below is the result of simulating every world’s actual game code over millions of spins. It concerns Play Credits in these free games only and tells you nothing about any game played for money.
| World | Constellation | Weather | Measured return | Spins that pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilded Ascent | The Lens-Keeper | Supernova | 95.5% | 22.4% |
| Hooting Meridian | The Lens-Keeper | Bright | 96.1% | 34.0% |
| Heather Summit | The Lens-Keeper | Supernova | 96.0% | 20.6% |
| Shooting Star Ledge | The Lens-Keeper | Soft glow | 96.1% | 44.9% |
| Lavender Lookout | The Lens-Keeper | Bright | 95.8% | 32.3% |
| Tailnet Station | The Lens-Keeper | Bright | 95.7% | 33.4% |
| Wisp Reading Room | The Scribe | Supernova | 95.3% | 20.7% |
| Raven Archive | The Scribe | Supernova | 96.5% | 21.8% |
| Moonward Pages | The Scribe | Supernova | 96.5% | 21.9% |
| Midnight Typesetter | The Scribe | Supernova | 96.5% | 23.3% |
| Nocturne Gallery | The Scribe | Supernova | 95.2% | 22.7% |
| Inkline Proofroom | The Scribe | Soft glow | 96.3% | 44.7% |
| Cloudsill Apothecary | The Moon Kettle | Supernova | 95.3% | 24.0% |
| Harvest Moon Hill | The Moon Kettle | Bright | 95.6% | 33.6% |
| Maple Moon Terrace | The Moon Kettle | Supernova | 95.3% | 20.4% |
| Bayou Glimmer | The Moon Kettle | Supernova | 96.2% | 21.5% |
| Lavender Dispensary | The Moon Kettle | Soft glow | 95.4% | 45.2% |
| Brewlight Snug | The Moon Kettle | Bright | 96.0% | 32.9% |
| Dusk Tide Hut | The Moon Kettle | Soft glow | 95.6% | 44.1% |
| Jade Lantern Row | The Peacock | Bright | 96.9% | 31.7% |
| Emerald Plume Salon | The Peacock | Bright | 96.6% | 32.7% |
| Butterfly Vitrine | The Peacock | Bright | 96.1% | 32.7% |
| Glitterbay Ballroom | The Peacock | Soft glow | 96.3% | 45.6% |
| Willow Blue Pavilion | The Peacock | Bright | 96.2% | 31.7% |
| Starhangar Nine | The Rocketeer | Supernova | 96.3% | 21.6% |
| Earthrise Grill | The Rocketeer | Bright | 96.4% | 33.0% |
| Ringgate Relay | The Rocketeer | Bright | 96.5% | 31.6% |
| Nebula Lounge | The Rocketeer | Bright | 95.7% | 32.2% |
| Sunline Cruiser | The Rocketeer | Bright | 95.7% | 33.5% |
| Sunset Rollerway | The Rocketeer | Supernova | 96.9% | 20.8% |
| Lamppost Layby | The Frost Wanderer | Bright | 95.8% | 32.6% |
| Bullseye Hall | The Frost Wanderer | Supernova | 96.2% | 20.5% |
| Last Stone Sweep | The Frost Wanderer | Supernova | 95.5% | 20.2% |
| Clearice Causeway | The Frost Wanderer | Supernova | 95.9% | 21.1% |
| Runestone Lights | The Frost Wanderer | Soft glow | 95.8% | 44.8% |