How the index is added up

They add to a hundred. The order of the register comes out of that sum and nothing else. Ties break first on the width of the cashier — because that is a read number rather than a preference — and only then alphabetically.

Within the licence block, the number is worth ten and the named company seven. That gap is the whole philosophy of the index in one place: the number is the only field on the entire card that can be verified somewhere other than the operator's own website. Everything else — the clause, the multiplier, the coin list — is the operator describing itself. The number either resolves in a public register or it does not. The twelve records in full.

Inside the verification block the same logic applies downwards: finding the clause is worth ten, quoting the section is worth eight, and a figure inside it is worth seven. A clause with no section is something you cannot quote back; a section with no figure is something you cannot plan around. What the cashiers accept.

Licence, status, holding company, verification clause and coin list come from the regulators' registers and the operators' own terms. Bonus conditions — percentage, multiplier, base and max bet — come from the listings where operators publish them, because that is where they are published in a form that can be read without opening an account.

The two never share a sentence. A page that blends a register entry with a secondary listing in one line makes both unverifiable, because the reader cannot tell which half to go and check.

• Payout speed. It would need timed withdrawals at every operator. None were done, so the counter reads zero and stays there.
• Return to player. The same title is configured differently at different operators, and the figure for that installation lives in the rules panel inside the game. No number here would be a fact about the casino.
• Game count. It measures a catalogue licensing deal, not anything a player experiences.
• Support and interface. Both are real and neither can be measured from outside without an account and a complaint.

An index that included any of those four would be more exciting and less checkable. Every field that survived into the scoring has the same property: somebody else can go and look at the same source and get the same answer, or prove this site wrong.

1. 01
   Register firstThe licence number goes into the regulator's own search. Status and company are read off the entry, not off the operator's footer.
2. 02
   Then the termsThe verification clause is located by section, quoted, and checked for a figure. Where the rule is split across two chapters, both are read.
3. 03
   Then the cashierThe deposit screen is opened and the coin list read from it.
4. 04
   The date goes on the cardEach record carries the date its own fields were read. Republishing the page does not move it.

This matters more than it sounds. A site-wide «updated» date on a page whose records were read months apart tells the reader nothing true. Per-record dates let you see that one entry is three weeks old and another is three days old, and weigh them accordingly.