Stake Originals Explained: All 12 Provably-Fair Games Reviewed

The Stake Originals lineup is 12 in house games. Dice, Mines, Plinko, Moles, Chicken, Crash, Keno, Limbo, Wheel, Hilo, Roulette, Blackjack. All provably fair. All built directly by Stake rather than licensed from a third party studio.

Here's the honest take. Provably fair Originals are the cleanest game category in any crypto casino. The math is published, the verification is independent, and the hit rates are knowable upfront. Stake's 12 Originals carry the standard 96 to 99% RTP territory you'd expect from this category. Not the zero edge 100% RTP that Gamdom publishes on its 11 Originals, but solid mid pack pricing across the catalog.

Let me walk through the lineup.

How provably fair works

Quick mechanic recap before the games. Provably fair means every round result is generated from three inputs.

• Server seed: Stake's secret seed for the round. Hashed and published BEFORE the round so it can't be changed after.
• Client seed: Your seed, which you control. You can change it any time.
• Nonce: A counter that increments every round.

The round result is a deterministic function of these three inputs. After the round, the server seed is revealed. You can independently verify that the published hash matches the seed, and that combining seed plus client seed plus nonce produces the result you got.

This is the same cryptographic primitive used in commit and reveal blockchain protocols. It can't be tampered with after commitment without breaking the hash.

The verification tool is built directly into each game's info panel on Stake. Open the verifier, paste the values, see the math.

Dice

Stake's Dice is the standard crypto casino dice game. Pick a target number from 0 to 99.99. Pick "roll over" or "roll under." The dice rolls, you win if the number lands on your side of the target.

The payout is automatically calculated from your win probability. If you bet "roll over 98," your hit rate is roughly 2% and your payout is approximately 49x. If you bet "roll over 50," your hit rate is roughly 50% and your payout is approximately 2x.

RTP sits at 99%. Dice is the cleanest game on Stake mathematically. There's no embedded feature, no bonus round, no variance trick. Just a binary bet at your chosen probability.

It's the game most automation scripts target because the behavior is utterly predictable.

Mines

Mines is a grid of covered tiles with hidden mines. You configure the number of mines (1 to 24 on a 25 tile grid). You reveal tiles one at a time. Each safe reveal increases your multiplier. Hit a mine, you lose your stake.

Cash out any time. The multiplier table is published per mine count. With 3 mines on the grid, your first safe reveal pays around 1.13x. Three safe reveals pays around 1.49x. Ten safe reveals pays around 5.x.

RTP sits in the 97 to 99% range depending on configuration. The temptation to keep clicking past 5x is the trap. Hit rate drops fast.

Plinko

Drop a ball down a pegged pyramid. The ball bounces randomly left or right and lands in a multiplier bucket at the bottom.

Risk levels: low, medium, high. Rows: 8 to 16. Higher risk plus more rows equals wider multiplier spread, with the edge buckets paying 1000x+ on high risk 16 row configurations and the middle buckets paying 0.x.

Expected value sits at roughly 99% across configurations. What changes is variance. Low risk Plinko feels like a slow grinding slot. High risk Plinko feels like a binary bet on the edge buckets.

Moles

Newer addition to the lineup. A grid where you reveal tiles to expose moles. Mechanics broadly similar to Mines with thematic variation. Provably fair, same verification infrastructure.

Chicken

Originals lineup expansion. Cross the road (lanes), each successful lane adds multiplier. Cash out before the truck. Provably fair, same verifier.

Crash

Crash is Stake's volume Original. A multiplier starts at 1.00x and climbs. Cash out any time. If the curve crashes before you cash out, you lose your stake.

The crash multiplier is drawn from a published distribution. Theoretical RTP at standard configuration sits at roughly 99%. The expected value of cashing out at any multiplier is identical (minus the small house tax), so there's no "optimal" cash out number mathematically. Different cash out targets just produce different variance profiles.

Most serious players set an auto cash out at a low multiplier (1.5x or 2x) and grind, rather than chasing high multiplier home runs.

Keno

Pick 1 to 10 numbers on a 40 number board. Stake draws 10 numbers. Your payout is determined by how many you hit. The payout table is published.

RTP roughly 96 to 97%. Keno is the highest variance Original in the lineup. Hit rates on the bigger pick numbers are low, payouts are high.

Limbo

Pick a target multiplier between 1.01x and ~1,000,000x. Stake rolls a multiplier. Win if Stake's roll equals or exceeds your target.

The math is identical in structure to Dice. Pick high target equals low hit rate equals high payout. Pick low target equals high hit rate equals low payout.

RTP 99%. Limbo is functionally Dice with a different UI presentation.

Wheel

Spin a wheel divided into multiplier segments. Configurable risk levels. Different segment distributions per risk level.

RTP roughly 97 to 99% depending on configuration. Wheel is the casual variant of the Originals lineup. Lower variance than Crash, higher variance than Dice.

Hilo

Card prediction. Predict whether the next card is higher, lower, or the same as the current card. Compound your multiplier on each correct prediction. Cash out any time.

RTP roughly 99%. Hilo is the slowest paced Original. Sessions move at the speed you click, not at the speed the game forces.

Roulette

Stake's in house Roulette. Single zero European wheel. Standard inside and outside bets. Provably fair.

RTP 97.30% on the wheel. Roulette is the most traditional casino game on the Originals lineup. Same math as any single zero Roulette table anywhere.

Blackjack

Stake's in house Blackjack table (separate from the live dealer Blackjack which runs through Evolution Gaming). Standard rules. Provably fair shuffle.

RTP roughly 99.5% with basic strategy. Blackjack is one of the few casino games where your decisions matter mathematically. Pair this with the Originals provably fair verifier and you've got the most player friendly RTP profile on the platform.

Special shelves

Beyond the 12 Originals, Stake runs a few specialty surfaces that touch the Originals category:

• Stake Exclusives: Branded titles that aren't on the standard Originals list but are exclusive to Stake.
• Bonus Buys section: Curated slots where the feature buy is the headline mechanic, including Originals related buys.
• Enhanced RTP games: Specific slot titles configured at higher than standard RTP on Stake. Worth checking the info panel before you spin.

Bottom line on Stake Originals

The Stake Originals lineup is 12 games, all provably fair, all running at 96 to 99% RTP. That's the standard category range. Not the zero edge 100% RTP that Gamdom publishes on its 11 Originals, but solid pricing across the board, with the verification infrastructure built directly into each game's interface.

For the broader Stake review with banking, sportsbook, and VIP context, see the Stake review. For the Originals showdown across crypto operators, the casino category page covers Stake vs Gamdom vs Rainbet vs BC.Game vs Yeet head to head.

For the full ranking across all categories, the Top Casinos comparison is the entry point.