About the Codex Equitum

What this site is

knightslots-nz.com is an independent catalogue of a single theme. Where a general review site chases every release in every genre and covers none of them completely, this codex keeps one word and keeps it whole: 54 knight slots from 37 workshops, from a 2011 WMS cabinet game to this season's releases, each with the return its maker published, the volatility it declared and the day it was struck.

Who writes it

Two people. Marnie Coulthard keeps the dated pages — the chronicles and guides. Callum Rees is the chronicler: he plays every slot and opens an account at every casino that earns a page. Neither writes in the other's zone, and both are named on everything they write.

How it earns

Some links to casinos are partner links, marked nofollow sponsored, and they pay us a commission if you open an account. That is the whole business model. It buys no words: the RTP figures come from the workshops, the verdicts come from sessions, and a casino that will not pay on time loses its seal regardless of what it pays us. The terms set this out in full.

What we refuse to do

Invent a figure. Where a workshop published nothing, the register prints «—». Fake a «new» badge. Only the release date puts a knight at the top of a page. Sell a ranking. The order of the casinos is the order we would use them. Pretend to expertise we lack. Table games and live rooms are outside what this codex catalogues, so we do not rank them.

Where we write from

New Zealand, for New Zealand players. Prices are in NZD, the compliance line is R18, and the help numbers on every page are the ones that work from here. The responsible gambling page keeps them all in one place.

Corrections

If a figure here is wrong, tell us and it will be fixed. The postbag is open, and a correction has never yet cost us anything worth keeping.

How we test

The method, written down so it can be held against us: what earns a slot a page, what earns a casino a seal, and what we do when the data is not there.

The register of 54 knights is built from the data each workshop published: title, studio, release date, RTP and volatility. It is not built from casino lobbies, because a lobby tells you what a casino carries today, not what exists. When a figure was never published, the entry carries «—» and stays that way until the workshop publishes one.

Slots. A session, not a glance. Long enough to reach the feature at least once. A review of a slot whose bonus we have not seen is not a review, and we would rather publish late than pretend. Figures from the workshop. Published RTP and volatility, checked against the game's own info panel, because casinos choose between certified settings. Our own screens. Screenshots come from our session. Where a paytable or a bonus round has not been captured yet, the page says so plainly instead of borrowing one. Verdict last. Written after the session, with the volatility said out loud.

Casinos. Licence. Checked at the register that issued it. Curaçao and Anjouan are light-touch regimes and we say so on the page rather than showing a badge. Our own coin. A real deposit, in NZD, at the minimum the house allows. The knights. We play the titles from this register, and check which RTP setting the house runs. The withdrawal, timed. The number that matters most. A house that misses its own stated window loses its seal.

What we do about gaps

We leave them visible. An empty field, a «—», a sentence saying the round has not been reached yet: all of these are better than a plausible invention, because a plausible invention is the one thing a reader cannot check.

Do you play every slot you write about? Every slot with a review page, yes. The register itself catalogues all 54 knight slots from published data; a review page is only written after a session.

Do casinos pay for a good review? No. Partner links pay a commission on sign-ups. They do not buy placement, a score or a sentence, and a house that fails a withdrawal test loses its seal.

Where do the RTP figures come from? From what the workshop published. Where nothing was published we print «—» rather than an estimate — five of the 54 entries are in that state.