About the Editors, Their Sources and Their Funding

What These Pages Publish, and Why

Reviews, guides, reference explainers and operator profiles for one game fill these pages, and nothing else does. Every page names its primary sources: the client inside the game, the studio own rules document, the operator terms, and the licence registers of the regulators involved.

Some numbers never arrive. Figures that resist verification are printed as not confirmed instead of guessed at, because a reader about to deposit their money deserves a visible gap in front of them. Start with the Book of Dead review, which is the clearest example of that rule working.

In Short, What a Reader Gets Here

Here's the short version: it's 25 pages about one game, and each figure is printed beside the document it came from. We've no casino accounts, no deposits and no rankings for sale.

If a figure isn't printed by the studio, an operator or a regulator, it doesn't go on a page. That's the entire editorial rule, and the sections below show how it holds up.

Subject

One slot game, Book of Dead

Pages

25 in 4 sections

Publishing since

30 Sep 2026

Return quoted

96.21% default, with four lower versions the operator may run

Funding

Affiliate links, disclosed on every operator page

Author

Daniel Hart, slot maths analyst

What Should You Check Before You Start?

Three checks are worth making before you start reading anywhere on this site, and they take about a minute. The studio figures sit in one document, the concession numbers sit in another, so open both in advance.

1. Open the studio rules document and note that it lists five return configurations, not one.
2. Look up the operator concession number in the Italian register, according to the date shown.
3. Read the bonus terms for the casino you actually intend to use.
4. Compare what the three documents say before you trust any summary.

Only the first of those three changes rarely; the other two move whenever an operator updates its conditions. Explore the reference section for the detail behind each one, and note that all 25 pages carry the date of their most recent check.

Who Writes and Signs These Pages

Every page on Book of Dead is written and signed by Daniel Hart, the slot maths analyst. Independent slot analyst who plays the title in the developer's own demo, reads the paytable and the in-game rules screen end to end, walks the bet steppers to their stops, checks operator terms and licence registers, and records the numbers seen rather than the numbers advertised. The author profile sets out the method and lists all 25 published pages.

A byline and two dates on every page. Each content page carries them, published and updated. The identity behind the byline is provisional until a real person can be verified in public, and the profile says so plainly instead of dressing it up.

Where the Facts on These Pages Begin

Facts on these pages begin in 3 places, in a fixed order of source. First the game itself, tested in its official free demo with a recorded session. Then the studio documents and the operator pages and terms. Last the regulator licence register, where a number is checked on the day a page is written.

The order matters because sources disagree more often than you would expect. One ADM concessionaire publishes 94,25% for this game while another publishes 96,21%, and the studio own two rules documents rate its volatility differently.

When that happens the page prints both and names who said what. The studio public game page, for instance, publishes no return figure at all while its rules document publishes five, so the disagreement is shown instead of averaged. Operator limits and bonus rules also change without notice, so every figure carries the date it was checked.

What Is Checked Before a Page Goes Live?

Regulation is verified by licence number instead of by logo. The UK Gambling Commission carries account 55949 for the studio with no regulatory action recorded against it, Malta lists authorisation MGA/B2B/225/2012, and the Italian register publishes a distinct concession number for each operator it licenses.

Our testing method page describes each step in order. Third-party catalogues are read for context only, while competitor review sites stay out of the citation list entirely.

Which Sources Count, and Which Do Not?

The studio provides the demo client, and the panels inside it carry most of the figures these pages quote. Its own rules document is where the five certified returns are published, and the public demo displays none of them, so the two are cited separately.

Regulators supply the other half of the record here. A supplier licence carries a number, and a register lets you confirm the holder in a minute. The Italian register publishes its own concession numbers, and they changed wholesale when the 2025 tender reissued them.

The gaps belong to the record, not to the reporting. The studio contradicts itself on volatility, no laboratory certificate names this title, and eight of the twelve Italian operators we checked publish nothing about how a bonus treats this game. You will find each of those problems printed wherever it matters to you.

3 Types of Source, Compared

The complete list of steps is short. Our methodology lives on a page of its own: a game verdict rests on 5 criteria, while an operator score is a weighted average of 16, where a middle mark means the operator publishes nothing; to verify the figures, our editors open the studio document, the operator conditions and the regulator register, in that order.

Readers get the result with their own route back to it. Every figure names the document it came from, so they can repeat the check for themselves, and you can hold a page to the standard it sets.

That standard carries one limitation worth stating out loud. Operators change their terms without warning, so a figure checked last week can be wrong today, and you should treat the date beside it as part of the fact.

How This Service Earns Its Money

Money reaches this service in one way only. Some links to licensed operators are affiliate links, and a reader who registers or deposits through one may pay this site a commission at no cost to themselves.

Commissions leave a rating, a verdict or the running order untouched, since operators are ranked nowhere on Book of Dead at all. Compared to a paid placement, that is a dull business model, and other casinos get the same treatment whatever they pay. The terms of use repeat this disclosure, and every operator page carries it beside the sponsored button.

No operator or game studio pays for coverage, reads the text before publication or supplies their own screenshots. They see a finished page at the same moment you see it, and they get no preview of their own. Frames come from the recorded demo sessions, and the studio has no say over a single caption.

Independence and Corrections on These Pages

Independence on these pages rests on 2 rules. Both are short enough to be held to, and neither one bends. A page is never edited at an operator request, and a correction is accepted only with a source a reader can open for themselves.

If you spot an error, write to the editors; your correction lands on the page and moves its update date, so the history of a fact stays visible for you and for everyone after you. However, where sources disagree, the page prints both figures and says which one the studio stands behind, because an averaged number is a made-up number.

Terms Used Across These Pages

Return to player

The share of all stakes a game hands back across millions of rounds, published for this title as five certified versions the operator chooses between.

Affiliate link

An outbound link that pays this site a commission when a reader registers, disclosed beside every sponsored button.

Licence register

The public list a regulator keeps, where a licence or concession number can be looked up on the day a page is written.

Not confirmed

The wording used whenever no provider page, operator term or regulator entry states the figure a reader asked about.

Player Safety on These Pages

Safety comes first. Player safety outranks every other rule on this site, and nobody in the team breaks it. Every page is written for adults aged 18 or over, and a slot returns less over time than it collects.

The responsible gambling page lists the limits a licensed account lets you set, the warning signs worth acting on, and how self-exclusion works both at a single operator and across the Italian national register. It prints no helpline number we have not verified in a primary source, and it says so rather than filling the gap.

Predictor and hack pages stay off Book of Dead, because a certified generator produces nothing a prediction could latch onto. The privacy policy explains that this service keeps no reader accounts and sets 0 cookies of its own.

Does a Commission Ever Change a Verdict?

No commission has ever moved a verdict here, and the structure makes it awkward to try: operators are never ranked, so there is no running order for money to buy.

A reader who doubts that can test it cheaply. Pick any operator page, read the disclosure beside the button, then compare its wording with the criticism in the same section.

Recap: How These Pages Stay Honest

To recap the promise: these pages publish one game, name their sources, verify regulation by number, and earn money through disclosed affiliate links that move no score. If you want one sentence, the studio document is always the better source. That is the rule. Player safety and the age rule sit above all of it.

The weak spots in the record stay visible as well. The studio contradicts its own volatility rating, no laboratory certificate covers the title, and the author identity is provisional, so each of those problems is printed where it belongs. Read how we test it next, then the author profile.