Basic strategyplus the hi-lo count
Blackjack Trainer
Basic-strategy coaching and Hi-Lo card counting on rules taken straight from official casino documents.
The Pit04 tables
Play the house at its own game.
Table games rebuilt as open-source simulations — true odds, basic strategy, and the exact house edge, all out in the open. No money, no sign-up.
Live equityodds as you play
No-Limit Hold’em
Texas Hold’em against intelligent bots, with live equity, outs, pot odds and hand ranges as you play.
True oddsthe zero-edge bet
Craps Simulator
A browser craps table for learning the line, the odds bets and where the edge really hides.
Real physicsno rigging required
Roulette Trainer
A real forward-physics wheel, proven fair by simulation — see exactly why you can’t beat it.
The Machines04 cabinets
Where the edge hides in plain sight.
Reels, pins and multipliers. The loudest machines on any floor — and the ones that take the most. Here is exactly how.
Exact oddsevery reel weight
Slots Simulator
Reel strips, virtual-reel weights and the exact-enumeration house edge across eight machine archetypes.
Optimal playranked by expected value
Video Poker Trainer
Optimal play, pay-table literacy and bankroll management — taught one hand at a time.
Ball physicsthe house sets the pins
Pachinko Parlor
Ball-drop physics and payout pockets, with the odds behind the pins laid bare.
The crash curvecash out or burn
Flameout
Watch the multiplier climb, cash out before the crash — then see why the house always wins.
The Arcade01 game
Tools for fun.
No edge here, nothing to beat — just games built for the joy of it. Starting with a slot car track from 1971; more on the way.
Analog throttleno house, just the track
AFX Slot Car Racing
Photoreal 1970s HO slot cars — squeeze the trigger, brake into the corner, or fly off into the shag carpet.
VogelTronics02 exhibits
Games That Think!
Homages to VogelTronics — a completely fictional Illinois toy company (1961–1983), invented from scratch so these recreations step on no one’s trademarks. The history and the flagship’s voice first; the toys themselves are on the way.
Games that think!the whole sad story
VogelTronics: The Whole Story
The magazine-style corporate history — Elk Grove Village, 1961, to the crash of 1983, forever in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Formant synthesisthe voice that shouldn’t exist
Rovacon Voice Bench
The flagship’s voice chip, rebuilt — Votrax-class formant speech synthesis in the browser: type a phrase, hear 1980 arcade speech.