Cost Per Hour: How Round Speed Changes Losses
Small stakes feel cheap, but the bill depends on how many bets you place as well as how big each one is. This page shows the cost of an hour at four stakes and four speeds.
Three dials, one multiplication
The cost of an hour is the stake, times the rounds you play in that hour, times the house edge. Nothing else goes into it. In the colour illustration the edge is 6.90%, so ₹100 a round at 60 rounds an hour stakes ₹6,000 and costs about ₹414 on average. Halve any one of the three dials and the cost halves.
The colour illustration is how a ten-outcome round is commonly described: four of the ten digits win at 2×, a fifth pays 1.5×, and a 2% fee comes off each stake. It is not any platform’s rules, because we could not read them. Put your app’s chances, payouts and fee into the calculator above to get your own numbers.
Stake against speed
Expected loss for one hour on the colour illustration, with its 2% fee. Each cell is one run of the calculator at that stake and that many rounds in the hour.
| Stake per round | 12 rounds an hour | 20 rounds an hour | 60 rounds an hour | 120 rounds an hour |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ₹10 | ₹8 | ₹14 | ₹41 | ₹83 |
| ₹50 | ₹41 | ₹69 | ₹207 | ₹414 |
| ₹100 | ₹83 | ₹138 | ₹414 | ₹828 |
| ₹500 | ₹414 | ₹690 | ₹2,070 | ₹4,140 |
Three ways to read it:
- Along a row, the cost rises with speed. At ₹100 a round, 60 rounds an hour costs ₹414 and 120 an hour costs ₹828.
- Down a column, it rises with the stake. At 60 rounds an hour, ₹10 costs ₹41 and ₹100 costs ₹414.
- Between cells, the cost matches whenever the amount staked matches. ₹10 at 120 rounds an hour and ₹100 at 12 both stake ₹1,200 and both cost ₹83. ₹50 at 120, ₹100 at 60 and ₹500 at 12 all stake ₹6,000 and all cost ₹414.
So a small stake is not a cheap hour if the rounds come fast.
The chance of finishing the hour ahead depends on the number of rounds only: 38% at 12 rounds, 39% at 20, 28% at 60 and 22% at 120, at any stake. Faster play raises the average cost and, from 20 rounds an hour up, lowers the chance that an hour ends in profit. Every cell is an average, though. A single hour can land well on either side of it, and the calculator above prints the typical swing for the numbers you enter.
Why quick rounds feel different
When results arrive every minute or faster, there is little time between one bet and the next. Each bet is small, so none of them feels like a decision, yet the total moves quickly. At the time of writing (8 October 2026), the platform’s page shows winning-feed entries named “5D 1 min” and “K3 1 min”. So a round length is part of how at least some of its games are named. We could not read the rules, so we do not know the length of every round. Trust the clock, not the feel.
Count your own rounds per hour
- Look at the clock when a result appears. Look again after ten more results, whether you bet on them or not.
- Divide the seconds that passed by 10. That is the seconds per round.
- Divide 3,600, the seconds in an hour, by the seconds per round. That is your rounds per hour.
If ten rounds took ten minutes, a round takes one minute and the game runs 60 rounds an hour. Then count only the rounds you really bet on, because rounds you skip cost nothing. If your app keeps a bet history, you can count a past hour’s bets instead. Type the number into Rounds per hour above.
Put a time limit beside the money limit
Rounds equal rounds per hour times hours, so time and speed are two ways to say the same thing. Playing 60 rounds an hour for 2 hours is the same 120 rounds as 120 rounds an hour for 1 hour: ₹828 on the colour illustration at ₹100 a round. A money limit is hard to watch at that pace. A time limit is easy. Set a phone alarm for the time you decided and close the app when it rings. The daily limit guide turns both into a written rule.
Speed is not the only dial
Edge counts as much as speed. Same ₹100 stake, two games:
| Game | 12 rounds an hour | 60 rounds an hour |
|---|---|---|
| Two-way illustration, 2.00% edge | ₹24 | ₹120 |
| Colour illustration, 6.90% edge | ₹83 | ₹414 |
At the same speed, the colour bet costs several times as much. At the same game, five times the speed costs five times as much. The fast two-way hour (₹120) even costs more than the slow colour hour (₹83). The expected-loss calculator page explains each tile above. Big or Small cost shows what a hidden rule does to a two-way edge, and the games overview explains the kinds of game in the lobby.
Common questions
Why does a small stake still add up to a big hour?
Because the cost is the stake times the rounds times the house edge. ₹10 a round at 120 rounds an hour stakes ₹1,200 and costs about ₹83 on the colour illustration, the same as ₹100 a round at 12 rounds an hour. Quick rounds make small bets add up.
How do I work out how many rounds I play in an hour?
Note the clock when a result appears and again after ten more. Divide the seconds that passed by ten to get seconds per round, then divide 3,600 by that number. Count only the rounds you actually bet on.
Does the stake change my chance of finishing an hour ahead?
No. In the colour illustration the chance depends only on the number of rounds: 38% for 12 rounds, 39% for 20, 28% for 60 and 22% for 120, at any stake. A bigger stake changes the size of the swing, not the odds.
What if my game runs rounds longer than a minute?
Use the real number. A round every three minutes is 20 an hour, and one every five minutes is 12 an hour. Both columns are in the table. Slower rounds cost less per hour at the same stake.
Is the cost per hour the same for every game?
No. It depends on the game’s house edge as well as the stake and the speed. At ₹100 a round and 60 rounds an hour, the two-way illustration costs ₹120 and the colour illustration costs ₹414. Use your own app’s odds for your own number.