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Budget education · read before playing

How far does a game budget go?

Before any Pachinko session, decide a budget you are comfortable losing entirely. This page shows the arithmetic: how a budget and a stake turn into a number of paid balls, roughly how long those balls take to launch, and what is left over. Numbers you enter are an example only. They are not a quote, an offer or a bet, and this page does not recommend a stake.

The actual cash stakes and launch rate are those shown in the game at the time you play. This calculator does not read your account and cannot place, reserve or change anything.

Example budget calculator

0 to 1,000,000 points
Use the stake shown in the game
Game launches about 4.5 per second

Paid balls and leftover

Paid balls are the budget divided by the stake, rounded down to a whole ball. Anything that does not cover a full ball is leftover and is not spent on launching.

Minimum of 10 balls

A cash Pachinko budget must cover at least 10 balls at the chosen stake. At about 4.5 balls per second, a 10-ball budget can be spent in roughly 2 seconds.

Stop and closing

Stop prevents new balls from launching. It does not cancel balls already paid for; those finish their path. When a session closes, its remaining cash is returned automatically.

Example numbers are not a session

Tama Falls has no free-play cabinet. A real session reserves balance at the stake shown in the game. This page only does arithmetic on the numbers you type. It cannot open a session or move money.

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