PHWIN Mini Games: Three In-House Rounds and the Choice to Cash Out
PHWIN mini game rounds end on one outcome, and in Mines and Chicken Roads you choose the moment by cashing out. Every multiplier on those screens is a chance of reaching that figure written as a price, and the three in-house games differ in how many such choices a round holds.
What Does a Round Look Like in the Three In-House Mini Games?
The Mini Game menu at PHWIN holds three in-house games, Mini Keno, Mines and Chicken Roads, and a round in any of them is one bet on one outcome. Mini Keno has you pick numbers before the draw.
Mines hides mines on a 5 by 5 grid whose mine count you set, you can cash out at any moment, and opening a mine ends the round. Chicken Roads asks at every step whether to continue or cash out.
Cash-out means ending the round early and keeping the multiplier already reached, and a multiplier is the number your stake is multiplied by at that point. A slot spin settles itself the moment the reels stop and a card hand settles at showdown, while a PHWIN mini game such as Mines hands you a decision partway through.
A Multiplier Is Priced From the Chance of Surviving Each Step
That decision has a price, and the price is fair when the multiplier equals the survival chance turned upside down. A chance of 80% is 4 in 5, so the fair multiplier is 5 over 4, or 1.25x, a figure used here as an example and not as a PHWIN multiplier.
Any multiplier shown below the fair figure is margin kept by the game, so a screen reading 1.20x where the fair figure is 1.25x charges 0.05x for the round. In Mines, a mini game at PHWIN, the survival chance is a count of tiles, which lets you set the screen multiplier against the fair one on the board itself.
In Mines and Chicken Roads each step multiplies the chance left from the step before, so three steps at 90% each leave 72.9%, so the fair multiplier is 1.37x at step three against 1.11x at step one, and each extra step trades a lower chance of keeping the stake for a larger multiplier.
Mini Keno Puts the Decision Before the Draw: How Many Numbers to Pick
Mini Keno, a mini game at PHWIN, draws 10 of 40 numbers, and you pick 1 to 10 before the draw starts, with bets from 1 to 500. The table gives, for four sample picks, the share of draws matching none of them (a match is a picked number among the 10 drawn) and the result that tops the table.
| Numbers you pick | Draws with zero matches | Top Result | Reading |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75.0% | 0 matches, 75.0% | One number is hit in 1 draw out of 4 |
| 3 | 41.1% | 1 match, 44.0% | All 3 land in 1.2% of draws |
| 5 | 21.7% | 1 match, 41.6% | 3 or more matches arrive in 8.9% of draws |
| 10 | 3.5% | 2 matches, 31.1% | A draw almost always touches one number and reaches 5 or more matches in 5.0% of draws |
Each of the 40 numbers is taken as equally likely in every draw. For keno online among the mini games at PHWIN, the return attached to each match count is set by the game, and a return below the fair figure for that chance is the margin, the same gap described for multipliers above.
How Does Mines Turn Each Tile Into a Cash-Out Decision?
Mines moves the decision inside the round: in this mines game at PHWIN you set the mine count on a 5 by 5 grid, and every safe tile you open raises the multiplier while leaving one fewer. The table lists the chance of surviving the first tiles with 3 mines and with 5 mines, taking mine positions as random.
| Safe tiles opened | Survive with 3 mines | Survive with 5 mines | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 88.0% | 80.0% | The first tile ends the round 1 time in 8 with 3 mines and 1 time in 5 with 5 mines |
| 3 | 67.0% | 49.6% | Three tiles keep two thirds of 3-mine boards and half of 5-mine boards |
| 5 | 49.6% | 29.2% | Five tiles keep half of 3-mine boards and under a third of 5-mine boards |
Turned upside down, each figure gives the fair multiplier: 2.02x after five tiles with 3 mines against 3.43x with 5 mines, so the mine count sets how steeply the fair multiplier climbs. Among the mini games at PHWIN, Mines can be cashed out at any moment, and if the connection drops mid-round, the game cashes out automatically.
The Chicken Roads Multiplier Ladder, From 1.09x to 2,208x
Chicken Roads, a chicken road game among the PHWIN mini games, repeats the decision at every step of a multiplier ladder running from 1.09x to 2,208x, and a run is one trip up that ladder. The table turns both ends of the ladder and two sample values into the survival chance a fair price implies.
| Multiplier | Survival chance a fair price implies | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 1.09x | 91.7% | A run ends at this first price about 1 time in 12 |
| 2.00x | 50.0% | Half of all runs reach this value |
| 10.00x | 10.0% | Nine runs in ten stop before this value |
| 2,208x | 0.045% | About 1 run in 2,208 reaches the top |
Each step multiplies the one before, so the chance of reaching the top is the product of every step’s chance, which is how a ladder starting at 1.09x ends near 1 chance in 2,208 for a fair price. For this mini game at PHWIN, the top rung therefore marks the end of the ladder, not a typical stopping point.
Do PHWIN Mini Game Bets Count Toward Deposit Bonuses?
Mini game bets do not count toward the deposit bonuses at PHWIN, which count only Slot and Fish bets. The same boundary reaches the sign-up rewards: betting on any game other than Slot or Fish, mini games at PHWIN included, forfeits the Mystery Golden Egg along with the Sign-up Angpao.
A wagering requirement is the total a bonus asks you to bet before the bonus can be withdrawn, and only stakes on listed games count toward it.
A bonus of 100 with a 10x wagering requirement needs 1,000 in qualifying bets, so 1,000 staked on Mines adds 0 toward that total while 1,000 staked on a slot adds 1,000, an arithmetic example and not a PHWIN bonus.
Members can open Betting Record in the Personal Center to review bets after a session. Mini game rounds at PHWIN raise the total a member bets without raising the total a deposit bonus counts, so a member with a bonus still open finishes that bonus on Slot or Fish before opening Mines or Chicken Roads.
FAQ
One question is about reading a multiplier and the other about the full 10-number Mini Keno pick, and the sections above answer neither.
What Does a Multiplier of 1.09x Pay on a Stake of 100?
At PHWIN, a multiplier of 1.09x applies to the whole stake, so a stake of 100 comes back as 109 in total, 9 above the stake. The same reading applies at the top of the Chicken Roads ladder, where 2,208x on a stake of 100 would come back as 220,800.
How Likely Are All 10 Picked Numbers to Match in Mini Keno?
One draw in 847,660,528. That number counts the ways to choose 10 numbers from 40, and only one of those combinations equals the 10 drawn numbers. Written as a share, that is about 0.0000001% of draws.
Cashing Out Locks in a Number, Not a Verdict
On a PHWIN mini game screen, a multiplier is a price attached to a chance, and you accept that price when you cash out. Mini Keno asks for that judgment once, when you pick numbers before the draw, while Mines and Chicken Roads ask for it again at every tile and every step.