Kite E · Cards: the gap · 230 m
Threadline
Two cards go down and leave a gap between their ranks. The narrower the gap, the better it pays if the third card threads it. You get one choice a round: raise on the gap, or stand.
- Kind: Cards, the gap
- Swing: Steady
- Decisions: Raise or stand
Played for lift only · lift has no cash value · adults 18+ · for entertainment only
Pick a stake, then launch. Lift has no cash value.
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Your lift
2,500lift · no cash value
Stake
How Threadline flies
- One full 52-card pack is shuffled for every round. Aces are high and twos are low; suits do not matter.
- Pick a stake and press Deal two cards. The gap is the number of ranks strictly between them: a 4 and a 9 leave a gap of four (5, 6, 7, 8).
- Next-door ranks leave no gap: the round ends there and your stake comes back.
- A pair: a third card is turned at once. Three of a kind returns 12 times the stake; any other card gives the stake back.
- Any other gap: raise once, adding a second stake equal to the first, or stand. Then the third card is turned. If it falls strictly inside the gap, everything staked is paid at the odds below; on or outside the gap it is lost.
- The advice line under the cards says raise on a gap of 7 or more and stand on anything narrower.
What comes back
| Gap | Odds | Back on 10 staked |
|---|---|---|
| 1 rank | 5 to 1 | 60 |
| 2 ranks | 4 to 1 | 50 |
| 3 ranks | 2 to 1 | 30 |
| 4 to 11 ranks | 1 to 1 | 20 |
| Next-door ranks | stake back | 10 |
| Pair, then three of a kind | 11 to 1 | 120 |
A wide gap pays less because the third card threads it more often: a gap of eleven (a 2 and an ace) is threaded 44 times in 50.
Good to know
The advice is the same simple rule every round. Over many rounds it brings back more than always standing or always raising, but no rule can make one card thread one gap.
Lift is a play unit with no cash value. It cannot be bought, swapped or turned into anything. If the lift runs low, Relaunch tops it up to 2,500 for free, with no wait. Results here say nothing about how you would do at real-money gambling, and they are not a reason to try it.
Want a break? The Pause key in the header closes the six kites on this device for as long as you choose. Safe Landing has check-ins, a round cap and calm mode.
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