Who writes here
Three people, and each of them owns a kind of question rather than a set of pages.
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Manasi Rege — the counting
Distributions, ladders, return percentages, and the decision about how much working to show. If a page here quotes a figure that was calculated rather than observed, it came from her.
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Zoya Kazi — building and watching
The pieces that involve making a board and tallying what it does. Her argument is that a pile of discs settles questions that a table of percentages does not.
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Abhay Tambe — comparisons and terms
Which instant games actually differ, which titles share a word without sharing a board, and where a lobby's conditions are really written down.
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What they share
A rule about sourcing, and it is the only house style this site has.
Every number is either observed or derived, and the page says which. A pin count, a stake field or a multiplier ladder was read off a working board on a stated date. A probability or a return percentage was calculated from those, with the calculation printed and its assumption named.
Nothing is quoted from a third party without a link. The two pieces that lean on outside sources — the television history and the prize ceilings — carry their citations at the foot.
Where a figure would need trust, the gap stays open. A provider's published return, a bonus contribution percentage, a claim about how a specific build's physics work: none of those appear here, because we could not point at where they are published. Filling them in with something plausible would make the rest of the site less trustworthy, not more complete.
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Why three writers on a twenty-page site
Because the three kinds of question need different instincts, and a single voice tends to answer all of them the same way.
The counting pieces want someone who will show the working even when it is unflattering. The build piece wants someone who would rather hand you a hammer than a table. The comparison pieces want someone who reads specifications and distrusts banners.
Those are genuinely different dispositions, and separating them keeps each page honest about what kind of claim it is making.
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Corrections
If a ladder on this site does not match the board in front of you, the fastest way to fix it is to tell us which board and what it showed. Contact details are on the about page.
