Chanze Casino Games

I opened a Chanze account on a Tuesday evening, deposited £20 by debit card, and spent the next hour switching between a Megaways slot, a £1 blackjack table and a 50p scratch card. Slots make up most of the Chanze games library, with table games, live dealers and instant wins filling the rest. Chanze lists around 1,800 titles from Pragmatic Play, Play'n GO, NetEnt and Evolution, and the lobby loads in under three seconds on my mid-range Android phone.

The search bar is fussy. It matches exact spellings, so typing Gonzos Quest without the apostrophe returned nothing when I tried it. Browsing by provider found titles faster.

How to Play Chanze Games Online

Setup took me six minutes from the homepage to my first spin.

• Click Register on the Chanze homepage and enter your name, date of birth, UK address, email and a password. Chanze emails a confirmation link, and you cannot deposit until you click it.
• Open the lobby and choose a tab: Slots, Table Games, Live Casino or Instant Win. Use the search bar if you know the exact title, or filter by provider.
• Open the Cashier and make your first deposit. Chanze accepts Visa and Mastercard debit cards, PayPal and Pay by Phone, with a £10 minimum. UK law bans credit cards for gambling, so Chanze rejects them. My debit card deposit reached my balance before the confirmation email arrived.
• Set your limits before you play. The Safer Gambling page lets you cap deposits per day, week or month, switch on reality checks, take a time-out or self-exclude. Chanze participates in GamStop, and the same page links to BeGambleAware for free advice.
• Contact support if something breaks. Live chat answered in about two minutes during my test, and email replies took six hours. Chanze has no phone line, which I missed when I had a question about verification.

Upload a passport or driving licence and a recent utility bill before your first withdrawal, because Chanze requires ID before it releases any winnings. My documents cleared in 18 hours, and the PayPal payout reached me two hours after approval.

Chanze Slots Overview

Chanze slots cover three-reel fruit machines, Megaways titles with up to 117,649 ways to win, and jackpot games with seven-figure prizes. Pragmatic Play supplies Sweet Bonanza and Big Bass Bonanza, Play'n GO supplies Book of Dead, and NetEnt supplies Starburst. Open the info panel before you spin to see the RTP, since Book of Dead showed 96.21% on my account.

Classic slots suit short sessions. Starburst at 10p a spin stretched a £5 stake across 140 spins thanks to a handful of small wins. Video slots carry the bonus features, and Sweet Bonanza paid me 96x on a 20p stake after a tumble chain of six drops. Mega Moolah and the other progressives show a live jackpot counter in the lobby. Chanze excludes them from bonus wagering, so play them from your cash balance.

Each of the Chanze online slots I opened displayed a volatility rating on its thumbnail. That rating helped me skip high-volatility titles when my balance dipped below £10. Chanze sorts its slots into five categories:

• Classic Slots
• Video Slots
• Progressive Jackpot Slots
• Megaways Slots
• Branded Slots

Most Chanze slots online offer a demo mode, though you must log in to launch it. I tested three unfamiliar titles in demo before staking real money, and dropped two of them.

Chanze Table & Card Games

Blackjack tables at Chanze start at £1 a hand, and Spanish 21 is the variant to learn first. It removes all four tens from the deck, so basic strategy shifts and bonus payouts on five-card 21s make up the difference. I lost three hands in a row on standard strategy before I looked up a Spanish 21 chart.

European roulette has a single zero, which gives the house a 2.7% edge. The American wheel adds a double zero and lifts that edge to 5.26%. Chanze offers both, so check the wheel before you place a chip.

Baccarat in the Punto Banco format leaves you one decision: banker, player or tie. The banker bet pays 0.95 to 1 after the 5% commission, and I stuck with it for 30 hands and finished £4 up.

Table games count for 10% toward bonus wagering. On a £50 bonus with 10x wagering, slots need £500 of play but blackjack needs £5,000. Use your cash balance for Chanze casino games at the tables.

Live Dealer Games at Chanze

Evolution runs the live tables at Chanze and streams from studios in Riga. Blackjack starts at £1 a hand, roulette at 50p a spin and baccarat at £1. Chanze adds game shows such as Lightning Roulette and Crazy Time to the classics. Streams ran at 1080p on my home broadband and held 720p on 4G without buffering.

• Real-time chat with the dealer and the other people seated
• 1080p streams that drop to 720p on mobile data
• Blackjack, roulette, baccarat and game shows under one tab
• Bet-behind on full blackjack tables
• Roulette limits from 50p up to £2,500 a spin

Seats at the £1 blackjack tables fill by 9pm. You either wait for a spot or use bet-behind, which lets you back another person's hand. The live tab is the closest thing to a casino floor I found at Chanze, minus the train fare.

Instant-Win & Specialty Games

Instant wins fill the gaps between longer sessions. Chanze carries scratch cards, keno and bingo, and demo versions of most slots run for free after you register.

Scratch cards cost from 50p to £20. I bought five £1 cards, scratched all five in under a minute and won £2 back. The result shows the moment you click, with no draw to wait for.

Keno asks you to pick up to 10 numbers from 80, then draws 20. I picked six numbers at 50p a round and matched three on my fourth go.

Bingo rooms run 90-ball games with tickets from 10p, and a chat host announces prizes between calls. Rooms fill after 8pm, so expect the chat window to move fast.

Chanze rotates its instant-win lineup every few weeks. New scratch card themes appeared twice during my month of testing.