Full House UK guide index: all 116 pages, section by section

Bingo: fifteen guides, and the reason the site has this name

Bingo gets the most room here, and it is where to start if you came for a ticket rather than a reel. The hub explains how a room is priced, how many people you are sharing the prize money with, and why no room will ever show you a payout percentage. After that, pick the question that brought you in.

Three of these guides are mostly arithmetic. The free bingo page works out what a no-cost room pays each player once forty of them turn up; the 90-ball page splits a pot the British way, across one line, two lines and then the house; and the jackpot page takes the in-so-many-calls promise apart. Two more are about the money going in rather than the game, pricing what a fiver and a tenner buy in tickets and in minutes at the table. The rest cover formats, apps, codes, and the welcome offers worth taking.

Free spins: eighteen guides, filed by the number in the headline

People look for spins by the count, so the guides are filed that way, smallest first. Batches of five, ten, twenty or twenty-five are the ones that genuinely arrive without a deposit at a British-licensed site, normally after a card check or an identity check has cleared.

Above a hundred spins the picture changes, because a pay-in is nearly always attached somewhere in the terms, and each of those pages says which it is in the opening lines rather than burying it. If keeping what a spin wins is the point for you, read the two no-wager guides first; if you would rather collect a few every day than all at once, the daily page and the drip schedules are the ones to look at.

Free bonuses: credit with nothing paid in

Six pages on bonus money rather than spins: a hub, one guide for each round amount from five pounds up to thirty, and one on playing slots for nothing at all. The useful part of every one of them is the ceiling, because a no-deposit bonus is almost always capped on what it can turn into, and that cap settles the value long before the headline gets a say.

Deposit offers: matched money, and what clearing it takes

Twelve guides on offers that want a deposit first. The match pages climb from a straight hundred per cent to the four-hundred headlines, and they show how the larger numbers are stacked over several pay-ins instead of landing in one lump.

The five deposit-and-spins pages take the formats British players meet most often, a fiver for a hundred spins or a tenner for three hundred, and work out what one spin is worth after the wagering and the win cap have both had their turn. There is a bingo welcome page in here too, which is the one to read if the January rule on mixing product types is what sent you looking.

Slots: the games, not the offers attached to them

Seven pages about what you are actually playing. Two rankings, one of ten titles and one of twenty, a page on this year’s releases, one studio, one series, and a guide to the games that hold up on a phone when you have twenty minutes on a bus. Return percentages and top wins are quoted the way the studios publish them, with a flag wherever the same game ships in more than one version, since that is where a quiet few per cent goes missing.

Casino sites: choosing one for week five, not day one

Thirteen guides on what a site is like to use after the welcome offer has stopped mattering. Minimum deposits from a pound upwards, how a withdrawal is arranged and what holds the first one up, dealer tables and the house edge on each of them, playing on a phone, and the payout question answered by hunting down the better version of a game rather than by repeating a slogan. The bonus page runs every offer through a single formula so that two very different headlines can be compared fairly.

Ways to deposit: one page for every deposit method

Seventeen guides, one per method, and that includes the three that cause the most confusion: PayPal, charging a deposit to a phone bill, and credit cards, which British-licensed sites have not been allowed to accept for years.

Each page covers the floor and the ceiling on a single payment, the charges that land when you take money out and not only when you put it in, the wait before funds appear, and whether a gambling block at the bank is likely to refuse the payment outright. The coin pages add the details that catch people, such as sending a transfer over the wrong network and watching it sit there.

Outside GamStop: eighteen guides, each one carrying the same warning

This is the offshore part of the site. The casinos written about here hold their licences a long way from Great Britain, and none of the cover a Gambling Commission licence gives a player comes with them: Gamstop Online cannot see them, the ten-times ceiling on wagering does not bind them, there is nowhere British to take a complaint, and nobody obliges them to ask you to set a deposit limit. Every page in the section opens by saying that out loud.

One of the eighteen is not a commercial guide at all. The GamBan page is written for someone who installed a blocker in order to stop, and it stays on what the software covers and how to close the gaps in it.

The site pages: who writes this and how it is paid for

Nine pages of housekeeping, and they are worth two minutes before you lean on anything above them. They say who writes the guides, how a page is scored and what would get an offer taken down again, which links earn this site a commission, what happens to the little it records about you, and where free and confidential help sits if the fun has drained out of playing. This index is one of the nine, so it is the single entry below that is plain text instead of a link.

Next on your bingo card

• HomeWhere free bingo tickets and free rooms actually come from
• BingoThe hub for ticket prices, room sizes and how a pot is shared
• Play safeDeposit limits, time-outs, Gamstop and free help
• Our rating methodHow a page is scored and what gets an offer pulled
• How this site is fundedWhich links pay a commission and what that does not buy