Mystic Booth: How It Works, Odds and Payouts

Mystic Booth is an instant fortune-teller game. You choose a Mild or Wild deck, a card is revealed, and the card's value is your payout. The cards range from Cursed, which pays nothing, to Destiny, which pays 50x in the Mild deck and 500x in the Wild deck.

Coins are virtual and have no cash value. The card is chosen on our servers when you start; the reveal is the animation.

How a round works

1. Set your bet and choose the Mild or Wild deck.
2. Start. A card is dealt.
3. The card's multiplier is applied to your bet. Cursed pays nothing.

How the cards are dealt

Behind the scenes, a roll is generated with the same distribution used by Crash: How It Works, Odds and Payouts and Limbo: How It Works, Odds and Payouts: the chance of rolling at least T is 0.97 divided by T. Each card is a band of that roll. You are dealt the highest card whose threshold the roll reaches. Higher thresholds are rarer, which is how the rarer cards are given.

The Mild deck

The Wild deck

Both decks are built so the pays multiplied by the chances add up to 0.97. In Mild, a payout of at least your bet (Mirror or better) is dealt 38.8% of the time; in Wild, 24.25%. The shared limits for all games are on the odds page.

A worked example

You bet 200 coins on the Wild deck. The chance that the roll reaches 12.5, the Sun threshold, is 0.97 / 12.5 = 7.76%, which is the total chance of Sun, Comet, Crown or Destiny (6.79% + 0.87% + 0.078% + 0.019%). A Sun pays 5x, or 1,000 coins; a Comet pays 4,000; a Destiny pays 100,000. Three in four cards are Cursed and pay nothing. The Mild deck for the same bet: the chance of any non-Cursed card is 48.5%, but the best it pays is 10,000 coins with a 0.061% chance.

Max win and caps

The Wild deck's Destiny at 500x is the biggest Mystic Booth payout. That is far below the game-wide limits of 50,000x the bet and 250,000,000 coins per round.

What is the same as other games

Mystic Booth is built on the same random roll as Crash: How It Works, Odds and Payouts and Limbo: How It Works, Odds and Payouts, but it reports the roll as a tarot card instead of a number, and it pays a fixed value per card instead of your chosen target. High Striker: How It Works, Odds and Payouts is the other carnival game with a fixed table of results. For what makes one table swing harder than another, see Volatility in Casino Games: Why Results Swing.

Tips that hold up

• Mild or Wild is your only decision. Mild pays something almost half the time; Wild pays nothing three times in four.
• A card is not "close". Seeing a Crown or Comet does not change the next card.
• Cursed is not a sign of luck turning. It is the most common card.
• Treat a Mirror as a refund. It pays exactly 1x in both decks.

Play with limits

Rounds are quick and the reveal is dramatic. Decide how many cards you want before you start, and see Play Safely in Cashout Arcade: Limits and Breaks for tools. Cashout Arcade is for adults aged 18+, uses virtual coins and has no real-money prizes.