Manasi Rege

A sheet of squared paper under a low desk lamp, a short column of neat handwritten figures on it reading 96.997, 97.001 and 96.996 one under the other, a mechanical pencil lying across the sheet and a small amber glass marble holding down one corner, warm pool of light, the rest of the desk in shadow

Manasi handles the counting on this site. When a page here quotes a distribution, a return percentage or the share of a ladder that comes from its edge slots, she is the one who worked it out and the one who decided how much of the working to show.

One board, fourteen bounces, fifteen slots

What she writes

The pieces on this site that lean on arithmetic: how a fourteen-row board distributes its outcomes, why three visibly different payout ladders return the same, and what a speed setting does to an evening's exposure when it touches no odds at all.

She also wrote the history piece, on the grounds that a game invented for television in 1983 and a game built for a cashier in 2026 differ in exactly one structural way — where the largest prize sits — and that this is a counting question wearing a history costume.

One board, fourteen bounces, fifteen slots

How she works

Numbers on this site come from one of two places and are labelled as such. Either they were read off a live board and can be pointed at, or they were calculated from numbers that were, with the calculation shown.

Where a figure would have to be taken on trust — a provider's stated return, a bonus contribution percentage — she leaves a gap and says why, rather than filling it with something plausible. The gaps are deliberate and there are several.

Her standing objection to most writing about this game is that it describes the biggest number on the screen and skips the one in the middle, when the middle is where nearly every round ends up.

One board, fourteen bounces, fifteen slots

Contact

Corrections to factual claims on this site are welcome, particularly to any figure we have attributed to a live board. If a ladder here does not match what you see on yours, we would rather know.