Lodestar

About Lodestar

Lodestar is a classic five-reel game with one idea added. The lodestar can land on reels 2 to 5, and when it does a needle inside it settles on one of the eight compass directions. Every cell from the star to the edge of the grid in that direction becomes starlight, which stands in for any picture before the lines are read.

A star on the bottom row pointing north-west can light a diagonal all the way to the top-left corner. A star pointing west lights every cell to its left, including reel 1, which the star itself can never land on. A star pointing at the edge it sits beside lights nothing at all, which happens too.

The ten lines are fixed and read from the left. A line made only of starlight counts as astrolabes, the top picture. There is no feature round and no extra spins: everything happens in the spin you paid for.

Field key: how to play

1. Pick a stake: 10, 25, 50, 100 or 250 ink for the whole spin.
2. Press Spin. Ten fixed lines are read from the left.
3. Three, four or five matching pictures from reel 1 along a line pay its value from the key, as a multiple of the line stake (your stake divided by 10).
4. The lodestar lands on reels 2 to 5 and stands in for any picture. Its needle then picks one of eight directions at random.
5. Every cell from the lodestar to the edge in that direction becomes starlight and stands in for any picture.
6. Each line pays its best run only. A line of nothing but starlight pays as astrolabes.

Returns

Every return is a multiple of what you staked. Ink has no cash value and nothing on Carthoryn can be exchanged for anything.

Fair play

Every result comes from your browser's random number generator, through the rules on this page and nothing else. There is no balancing, no memory of earlier rounds and no change in the odds after a quiet patch or a lively one. The game reads the same numbers that are printed above.

Questions