Playing responsibly

These questions are ours and this is not a screening test. Properly validated instruments exist, they are scored and interpreted in ways that depend on how they are administered, and lifting one onto a slot-review site would produce something that looks clinical and is not — a number with an authority it has not earned, which is the exact thing the rest of this site was built against. The six below cover the same ground in plain words. A service on this page can give you the real thing.

Nothing you tap here is stored, sent or counted. Not on our servers, not in your browser, not in the anonymous profile this site keeps for your slot preferences. That profile is about what you like; an answer to whether you have hidden your losses from somebody is not a preference, its value to us is nothing, and the cost to you if it ever escaped a device or a log is not nothing. The price is that we cannot show you how your answers have changed since last time, and we would rather pay it.

Showing what we hold for Philippines. A service is listed here only if it serves this market: a helpline you cannot reach is worse than an empty section, because it looks like help.

We hold services for 3 of the 10 markets in our database, and 1 of the 1 listed here is specifically about gambling. The rest are general mental-health services that will help, and saying so is the difference between a resource and a link.

• National Problem Gambling Helpline

  Helpline · Philippines

  (02) 8248-9568

  This service is specifically for gambling problems.

  en, fil · pagcor.ph · checked 2026-08-17

Nearly every site in this industry prints 18+ in its footer, everywhere, in every market. We do not, and the reason is not a technicality.

We read the law of ten Asian markets. In exactly one of them is there a published minimum age we can cite with a date — and it is twenty-one, not eighteen. In six others the activity is prohibited at every age, so a badge saying 18+ would be worse than unsourced: it would tell an adult there is a lawful version of the thing available to them, and there is not.

So the footer of every page carries the rule rather than a number, and a number appears only where we can show you the regulation it comes from and the date we last checked it. Where a market publishes no age at all, we say that instead of borrowing somebody else’s.

There is no age gate here. A box asking whether you are over eighteen, with a button, filters nobody — and putting one in front of a page about gambling harm delays the person who most needed to reach it. The same goes for anything that opens over a page and has to be dismissed before you can read it. The full list, with what each promise is checked against, is on the editorial policy page.

One thing on this site appears on its own, and this is it. After about twenty-five minutes of unbroken reading, a short note appears at the end of the page saying how long you have been here. It is not an overlay, it does not stop you reading or clicking anything, it takes no focus, it appears at most once in six hours, and it stops appearing altogether if you dismiss it twice. It counts only time this page was actually in front of you, so a tab left open overnight is not a twelve-hour session. It knows nothing about you beyond that clock, and it never sends anything anywhere.

Some links to casinos on this site earn us a commission. That is exactly the kind of interest a page about gambling harm should declare, so: nothing on this page is monetised, no service listed above has any relationship with us, and no position in any ranking anywhere on this site can be bought.

Commercial links are also switched off entirely wherever we cannot establish that we are allowed to carry them, which today means almost everywhere. That is described in full on the editorial policy page.