Responsible Play

What TrickleWise is, and what it is not

TrickleWise is a free social casino. There is no real money anywhere on this site: you cannot deposit, wager, win, or lose a single cent, and there is no prize of any kind to be won. Virtual credits are free, deliberately worthless, and reset constantly.

We are also honest about the other half of that sentence. Casino-style games are designed to be engaging, and playing them can still become a habit worth watching. Nothing here predicts how you would do gambling with real money.

Keep it a game

A few habits that keep this the low-stakes corner of your day:

• Decide how long you will play before you start, set an alarm, and stop when it goes off.
• Play when you are rested and in a decent mood — not to escape stress, boredom, or a bad day.
• Take a real break every session. Stand up, look away from the screen.
• Keep it occasional. If it has become a daily routine you no longer choose, that is worth noticing.
• Never let it displace sleep, meals, work, money, or the people around you.

Warning signs worth taking seriously

Stop and take a longer break — days, not minutes — if you notice any of these:

• playing far longer than you meant to, repeatedly;
• hiding how much you play, or playing in secret;
• feeling restless, irritable, or anxious when you cannot play;
• losing sleep, missing commitments, or neglecting people to keep playing;
• trying to "recover" a bad run, even though nothing real is at stake;
• thinking about the games when you are meant to be doing something else;
• feeling drawn towards real-money gambling because of the time you spend here.

Tools you can use right now

Sign out and remove the shortcut from your home screen. Turn off email notices from your account page or by writing to care@tricklewise.com. Use the screen-time and website-blocking tools built into your phone, computer, or browser — Screen Time on iOS and macOS, Digital Wellbeing on Android, or a browser blocking extension. If you want a harder barrier, ask us for self-exclusion below.

Self-exclusion — closing your account for good

Email care@tricklewise.com with "Self-exclusion" in the subject line. We will confirm within a few business days, permanently close your account, delete your personal data, and add your email address to a permanent block list so it cannot be used to register again. There are no questions asked and no attempt to talk you out of it, and the decision is not reversible.

If you would rather just pause, say so instead and we will stop all email from TrickleWise while leaving your account intact.

If you are under 21

TrickleWise is not for you. Any account we believe belongs to someone under 21 is closed and its data deleted. If you are a parent or guardian and think a minor has been using the site, write to privacy@tricklewise.com and we will take care of it. We also recommend parental control software to keep this kind of content off shared devices.

Helping someone else

If you are worried about a family member or friend, you can call the National Problem Gambling Helpline yourself — it supports the people around a gambler, not only the gambler. Gam-Anon runs meetings specifically for families and can be found through gamblersanonymous.org.