How Each Guide Is Checked

A guide about a game is only useful if its rules and numbers are right. This page explains where the facts on World Media Academy Games come from, how a draft is checked before it goes online and what happens when a reader finds a mistake.

The sources we rely on

The rules of the game

For table and card games, we start from the standard rules as dealers and rulebooks describe them, and we name common house variations rather than presenting one version as the only one. Our guide to Three Card Poker is a good example: the main structure is fixed, while bonus payments are left to the table's own paytable.

Figures that follow from the game itself

Some numbers can be worked out directly from a game's design: the pockets on a roulette wheel, the number of ways to deal a hand from a 52-card deck, or the implied chance behind a decimal price. When we use figures like these, we show enough of the working for readers to check them.

Published game information

Return to player percentages, volatility ratings and bonus features belong to individual games and are set by their developers. When we mention them, we point readers to the game's own help screen, because the version on a particular site can differ from the one we looked at.

Labelled examples

Where a point is easier to see with numbers, such as a budget split or a cash out offer, we invent a simple example and say so clearly. These are never presented as real results.

What we do not use

• Win-rate claims, "hot" or "cold" game lists, or predictions.
• Statistics we cannot trace to the game's rules or its published information.
• Quotes or endorsements from people we cannot name.

The checking routine

1. Draft. The writer responsible for the section prepares the guide, with each rule and figure noted against where it came from.
2. Second read. Another writer checks the draft cold, recalculates any numbers and flags anything vague or overconfident.
3. Safety pass. Every gambling guide gets a clear 18+ note and a reminder to check local law; money guides make clear they are general information.
4. Publish and date. The guide goes online with its publication date, and any later revision updates the modified date.

When we get something wrong

Readers occasionally spot errors we missed, and we are grateful when they do. Corrections are dealt with before any other email. Small fixes, like a typo or a broken link, are made straight away. Larger changes, like a rule we described incorrectly, are made after a second check. Send corrections through Write to the Academy.

Older articles

Some guides were first published years ago and have since been rewritten to meet these standards. Their addresses stay the same. If you find an older piece that still makes claims we would not make today, let us know so it moves up the list.