<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Provably Fair Play</title><description>How provably fair systems work, how to verify a result yourself, and the exact maths behind crash, dice, plinko, mines, limbo and the rest of the originals — house edge, RTP, variance and payout formulas, derived rather than repeated.</description><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/</link><language>en-us</language><item><title>House Edge vs RTP: The Only Two Numbers That Matter</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/house-edge-vs-rtp-explained/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/house-edge-vs-rtp-explained/</guid><description>House edge vs RTP explained with worked arithmetic: the same number inverted. What a 1% edge costs over 1,000 bets, and why turnover is what you pay on.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>house edge</category><category>rtp</category><category>expected value</category><category>variance</category><category>turnover</category></item><item><title>Martingale: The Math of Why Doubling Down Fails</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/martingale-why-it-fails/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/martingale-why-it-fails/</guid><description>Does martingale work? The exact arithmetic: streak odds, the stake at step 10, expected rounds to ruin, and why linearity of expectation kills every system.</description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>martingale</category><category>bankroll</category><category>risk of ruin</category><category>expected value</category><category>variance</category></item><item><title>Mines Game Odds: Every Probability on the Board</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/mines-game-odds/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/mines-game-odds/</guid><description>Mines game odds derived exactly: survival probability for any mine and pick count, the fair multiplier behind each, and how to check a payout table for edge.</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>mines</category><category>probability</category><category>expected value</category><category>house edge</category><category>multipliers</category></item><item><title>What Provably Fair Does Not Prove</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/provably-fair-limitations/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/provably-fair-limitations/</guid><description>Is provably fair legit? The cryptography is sound but proves far less than players assume. Here is exactly where the guarantee stops and what it never covered.</description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>provably fair</category><category>limitations</category><category>trust</category><category>house edge</category><category>risk</category></item><item><title>Plinko Odds: The Binomial Distribution Behind the Board</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/plinko-odds-and-multipliers/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/plinko-odds-and-multipliers/</guid><description>Plinko odds computed exactly: the probability of every slot on a 16-row board, why the 1000x pockets add almost nothing to RTP, and how to check any table.</description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>plinko</category><category>binomial distribution</category><category>rtp</category><category>probability</category><category>variance</category></item><item><title>How to Verify a Provably Fair Bet, Step by Step</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/how-to-verify-a-provably-fair-bet/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/how-to-verify-a-provably-fair-bet/</guid><description>How to verify provably fair results yourself: save the commitment hash, rotate the seed, hash the reveal, recompute the roll. Working Python and JavaScript.</description><pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>verification</category><category>sha-256</category><category>hmac</category><category>python</category><category>javascript</category><category>seed rotation</category></item><item><title>Dice Under the Hood: Roll Derivation, Payouts and Edge</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/dice-game-math/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/dice-game-math/</guid><description>How the crypto dice game works: deriving the 0.00-99.99 roll from an HMAC, the payout formula 99 divided by win chance, and why every slider position pays 99%.</description><pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>dice</category><category>hmac</category><category>payout formula</category><category>house edge</category><category>expected value</category></item><item><title>Server Seed, Client Seed and Nonce, Explained Properly</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/server-seed-client-seed-nonce/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/server-seed-client-seed-nonce/</guid><description>Server seed, client seed and nonce do three different jobs. Here is exactly what each one contributes, when it is revealed, and how they combine into a result.</description><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>server seed</category><category>client seed</category><category>nonce</category><category>hmac</category><category>seed rotation</category></item><item><title>Crash Game Math: How the Multiplier Curve Works</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/crash-game-math/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/crash-game-math/</guid><description>Crash game math derived from scratch: how the bust point comes from the hash, why every cash-out target has the same expected value, and what really changes.</description><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>crash</category><category>expected value</category><category>variance</category><category>house edge</category><category>probability</category></item><item><title>What Provably Fair Means and How It Actually Works</title><link>https://provablyfairplay.com/what-is-provably-fair/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://provablyfairplay.com/what-is-provably-fair/</guid><description>What is provably fair? The casino commits to a hashed seed before you bet, then reveals it so you can recompute every result yourself. The mechanism, with code.</description><pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>provably fair</category><category>cryptography</category><category>hashing</category><category>server seed</category><category>verification</category></item></channel></rss>