Tower game: chance to climb each floor, RTP and how difficulty works
A tower is a stack of floors, and every floor is a row of tiles. Some tiles are safe and the rest end the round. Each safe pick takes you one floor up and raises the payout. The difficulty sets how many tiles are safe.
How to play a Tower game
- Choose a difficulty. It sets how many tiles a floor has and how many of them are safe.
- Set the stake and pick one tile on the first floor.
- A safe tile moves you up and shows a higher multiplier. You may cash out there or pick on the next floor.
- A losing tile ends the round and the stake is lost. Reaching the top floor pays the largest multiplier of that difficulty.
Tower game odds: the chance to climb a number of floors
The chance of one floor is the number of safe tiles divided by all tiles in the row. Several floors in a row multiply that chance by itself. The table uses rows of 3 tiles in two example settings: 2 safe tiles, where a floor is passed 66.7% of the time, and 1 safe tile, where it is 33.3%. Your title may use other rows. Read them in its rules and enter them in the towers calculator.
| Floors climbed | 2 safe of 3 | 1 safe of 3 |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 66.7% | 33.3% |
| 3 | 29.6% | 3.70% |
| 5 | 13.2% | 0.412% |
| 8 | 3.90% | 0.0152% |
8 floors in a row are climbed in 3.90% of rounds in the first setting and in 0.0152% in the second. At an RTP of 97.0% the matching multipliers would be 24.86x and 6364.17x. These are implied numbers, not the pay table of a specific title.
Tower difficulty levels: easy, medium and hard
Difficulty changes the mix of tiles and nothing else. On an easy level most tiles are safe, floors are passed often and each adds little. On a hard level few tiles are safe, most rounds end on the first floors, and the rare round that goes high pays a very large multiplier. No level is cheaper. Each one is priced around the RTP of the title, and at 97.0% the average cost is 3 per 100 staked. The same trade is behind the mine count in Mines, and how many mines to pick explains it step by step. A road crossing game such as Chicken Road is a tower laid on its side. Some titles in this group look different: a floor is added to the stack instead of a tile being picked. The bet on each step is of the same kind. To see what a session costs at your stake, open the expected loss calculator.
Where to play Tower games: casinos in our data and their RTP
All casinosThe 7 lobbies we went through hold 27 different tower titles. An RTP is on record for 16 of them, the lowest 95.0% and the highest 97.57%. Some titles state a range instead of a single figure. Per 100 staked the average cost goes from 2.43 to 5 across the confirmed titles. The casino list has a page for every lobby with its tower titles and their figures.
Drakaris
Glorion
DragonSlots
Ragnaro
Alawin
Golisimo
WestaceIs a Tower game fair? Where the safe tiles are set
In a tile picker the safe and losing tiles of every floor are placed before the first pick. Picking the left or the right tile has the same chance, and patterns seen in past rounds do not carry over.
In a provably fair title the layout is derived from a server seed, a client seed and a nonce. After the round the layout can be rebuilt with the provably fair verifier and compared with what the game showed. Titles without seeds publish only their RTP, and no outside check of a single round is possible there.
Tower game demo: climb with play credits
Tower titles with a demo number 26 out of the 27 in our data. A demo shows the multiplier ladder of each difficulty, floor by floor. Write the ladder down and compare it with the calculator to see what RTP the title is built on.
Towers calculator and the Mines tool
Questions about Tower games
How do you win at a Tower game?
You win by cashing out before a losing tile. Stopping early wins more often and pays less, and no stopping point changes the house edge.
Which difficulty is it better to play in Towers?
None has a lower average cost. Easy levels give frequent small payouts, hard levels give rare large ones.
Is there a pattern to the safe tiles in Towers?
No. Each floor is set at random before the round, and each round is independent of the last.
What is the RTP of Tower games?
For the tower titles in our data with a confirmed figure it runs from 95.0% to 97.57%.
How is a Tower game different from Mines?
In Mines all tiles lie on one grid and every pick changes the odds of the next. In a tower each floor is a fresh row with the same odds as the one below.
