All six plumes
The six plumes on the Pixplume wheel
Two reel games, a fan and needle, two card tables and a dice game, each built from scratch by us and played for sheen, a points balance with no cash value. Every game page sets out its rules in a few numbered lines and prints its full pay table before you play.
Plume A
Fanfare
Five reels set out as a diamond, three to five pictures tall. Matches pay from the left in any row, the golden quill opens the centre reel, and three eyespots spread the fan wider.
Reels, 720 ways · swing: lively, big peaks in the open fan · about 3 s, longer in the open fan a round
Plume B
Subpixel
Nine glass pixels and eight lines. Three alike pays, and so does a line that mixes red, green and blue into white light, or cyan, magenta and yellow into ink.
Colour lines · swing: steady, frequent small lines · about 2 s a round
Plume C
Fanwheel
Eighteen feathers and a golden eye on a half-circle fan. Make one call, from a single feather to a whole half, and the needle sweeps across and settles on one stop.
Fan and needle · swing: calm to lively, by call · about 4 s a round
Plume D
Open Wing
Twenty-one with both house cards dealt face up, so you always see what you are up against. Hit, stand or double on 9 to 11; the house takes every tie.
Cards: twenty-one, house open · swing: steady · about 10 s a round
Plume E
Pinion Stud
Two cards of your own and three shared cards turned one by one. Before each one, fold or raise once or three times your ante; your five cards are paid on a fixed table.
Cards: stud · swing: lively: raises build up · about 12 s a round
Plume F
Crestroll
Name a crest first, from two pairs to five alike, then take up to three throws of five dice, keeping any you like between throws. Make the crest and it pays.
Dice: name a crest · swing: calm to wild, by crest · about 8 s a round
Before you pick one
Every plume runs on the same sheen balance, 4,000 to start, with stakes of 20, 40, 80, 200 or 400. Nothing is for sale and nothing can be cashed in. If your sheen runs below 200, the Preen key tops it back up to 4,000 at once, free and without a timer.
Results are drawn at random in your browser before any animation runs, so the spinning and sweeping only show you an outcome that is already settled. Rounds do not remember each other. For adults 18 and over, for entertainment only.