Penalty game: how a shoot-out round works, RTP and the open questions
A penalty game puts you at the spot. You pick where to shoot, the keeper dives, and a goal raises the multiplier. A save ends the round. It looks like football, and under the picture it is a step game like others on this site.
How to play a Penalty game
- Put down a stake for the series. Many titles also ask for a team or a difficulty level.
- Choose a spot in the goal, or let the game choose one at random where it offers that.
- A goal raises the multiplier. After it you may collect or take the next shot.
- One save by the keeper and the series is over, with nothing paid. A full series of goals pays the top multiplier of the title.
Penalty game odds: what we know and what we do not
There is no odds table on this page, and that is deliberate. We have not established the chance of a goal per shot for any penalty title. The titles differ: the number of spots, the length of the series and the difficulty levels are not the same from one studio to the next. Whether the spot you pick changes the chance is stated in the rules of each title, and we have not confirmed it either way. If the chance per shot were known, the game would be worked out floor by floor like a Tower game, or lane by lane as in Chicken Road. What can be said with certainty is the cost. A title with a stated RTP keeps the rest of every stake on average. For the penalty titles in our data that is 2 to 5 per 100 staked. The expected loss calculator scales it to your session, and the bankroll survival calculator shows how many shots a balance is likely to cover.
Where to play Penalty games: casinos in our data and their RTP
All casinosPenalty shoot-outs are a short list: 20 different titles turned up in 7 lobbies. We could confirm the RTP of 11 of them, and the figures fall between 95.0% and 98.0%. For the others the figure is in the game rules or not published. What RTP means in crash games shows how to turn it into money. The house edge comparison sorts the penalty titles of a lobby by their figures, and the casino list leads to each lobby.
Drakaris
Glorion
DragonSlots
Ragnaro
Alawin
Golisimo
WestaceA penalty game looked at on its own
One penalty title in our data has a page to itself, with its ladder of goals, its payout cap and the casinos that carry it.
Is a Penalty game fair? What can be verified
The keeper is an animation. The outcome of a shot is decided by a random draw inside the game, as in every casino title. Watching the keeper for habits is of no use.
Where a penalty title is provably fair, the draw comes from a server seed, a client seed and a nonce, and a finished series can be recomputed with the provably fair verifier. Not every penalty title is built that way. For the others the RTP in the rules is the one number a player can rely on, and a single round cannot be checked from outside.
Penalty game demo: take shots without a stake
We hold 20 penalty titles, and 20 of them open in demo mode according to the lobby flag. In a demo you can read the multiplier of each goal in the series and see where the title lets you collect. A demo session is too short to measure how often the keeper saves.
Tools that work for Penalty games
Questions about Penalty games
How do you win at a Penalty shoot-out game?
You win by collecting after one or more goals. A save before you collect loses the stake.
Does it matter where I shoot in a Penalty game?
The rules of each title say whether the spot changes anything. We have not confirmed the chance per spot for any title.
What is the RTP of Penalty games?
Where a figure is confirmed for a penalty title, it lies somewhere from 95.0% to 98.0%.
Why is there no Penalty calculator?
A calculator needs the chance of a goal on each shot, and that number is not established. Tools that need only the RTP still apply.
Can a Penalty game be predicted?
No. Each shot is a random draw, and earlier shots do not make a goal or a save more likely.
