Crash games at Vavada: Chicken Road 2, Aviator and the exit

Who gets the most out of this tab

In a slot you press spin and the reels settle the round without you. In crash the exit is yours, and that one second is the whole game. The tab fits you if you play in short bursts from a phone and like counting your own risk. It fits you even better if you came here for Chicken Road: the game opens in one tap from the grid above and runs on the same balance as slots, live tables and sports.

Two readers should walk straight past. One is anyone sitting on an unfinished welcome bonus, because the x35 wagering runs in slots only and a bonus stake here cancels it. The other opened this tab to win back a bad evening. A round takes seconds, the repeat bet button is under your thumb, and a deposit drains faster than in any slot for one boring reason: more rounds per minute.

How a round pays, and the terms that come with it

The order inside a round is always the same. Bets are taken before the start; once the round runs, the panel is shut until the next one. Then the multiplier climbs on the screen: one, one and a half, two, and after that it is anyone's guess. You leave in one of two ways, with your finger on cash out or with auto cash out, which you loaded with a multiplier in advance. The payout is your stake times the number at the moment you left. Press half a second late and the break lands first, and the stake stays with the casino. The plane, the rocket and the chicken are decoration on top of that single decision.

The break point is decided before you see anything. The game takes a server seed, mixes in a client seed and gets the result of the round; the hash of the server seed is shown in advance, the seed itself is published afterwards, and the round can be recalculated from both. That is what provably fair means in practice. The strip of previous multipliers above the field is history and nothing else: every round is independent, and ten short rounds in a row say nothing about the eleventh.

The terms are the same across every card in the tab. Games run on real money and the green button on a card leads into the casino. The auto cash out field sits in the bet panel of Aviator and JetX: you type the multiplier before the round and the bet closes itself, which is the one exit that ignores your reaction time and your mobile connection. Winnings land on the main balance and leave it the same way the deposit came in, from a few minutes to 24 hours by the casino terms. Crash hands out no bonus rounds, and it puts no borrowed wagering on your account either: the money in play is your own, and the x3 deposit turnover is the single condition standing between it and the cashier. A single condition to clear is the whole trade here, and I take it every time. An account opened in India keeps its balance in rupees, so the conversion disappears from every deposit and every payout.

Chicken Road 2 and Aviator: why the chicken overtook the plane

You probably opened this page for the chicken, so here is my evening. Chicken Road 2, medium difficulty, phone in one hand. The chicken steps onto the next lane, the multiplier ticks up. Another step. Another. Halfway across the road my thumb is already sitting on cash out and I keep waiting for one more lane, because one more lane. I pressed one step before the car came out of the edge of the screen. The stake times the lanes I had crossed landed on the balance and I exhaled. That mix of irritation and pull is the whole game.

From there the difference with Aviator shows up in the first round. In Aviator the curve grows on its own and you react to it. In Chicken Road by InOut every step is your decision, and you hand yourself the difficulty before the start: on easy there are many lanes and they climb slowly, on the hardest setting there are few lanes and each one is expensive. The chicken stands on its lane until you press. The plane will not wait. There are several chickens in the grid above, and here is who is who:

• Chicken Road 2 by InOut, the second version of the same road, first card in the tab.
• Chicken Road by InOut, the original, still in the lobby.
• Chicken Road 2 Bonus by InOut, a third road from the same studio in the same tab.
• Chicken Rush 2 and Chicken Shot by BGaming, neighbours in the genre with the same bird.

Vavada Aviator: two bets in one round

Aviator by Spribe is the plane that took the format to the mass market, and it is the game people mean when they type vavada aviator into a search box. It gives you two bet panels in a single round. I close the first one with auto cash out at a low multiplier that covers both stakes, and let the second one fly for whatever it catches. That gives the round an emergency exit: the first bet returns what I put in, the second one goes hunting, and a break in the first second still takes both. JetX by SmartSoft works the same way with a rocket and a faster climb, and Aviamasters and Aviamasters 2 by BGaming send a plane along a route collecting multipliers, which changes the picture and leaves the decision alone.

Mines and Plinko: the same tab at a different pulse

Mines by Turbo Games has one setting worth arguing about, the number of mines, and it trades speed against margin: more mines and the multiplier climbs faster, more mines and the next cell is closer to the end. There is no curve here, there is a greed threshold, and you set it yourself. Jackpot Mines by Belatra Games puts the same field under a different studio. In Plinko, which is PlinkoX by SmartSoft and Sugar Plinko by BGaming, there is nothing to decide mid round at all: risk level and rows, then the ball falls. Nothing to catch, nothing to collect, which makes it the calmest game in the tab; I open it when the chicken has worn me out. Tower, Hi Lo, Penalty Unlimited and Wheel Out are one decision games, and First Person Blackjack and First Person Roulette by Evolution Gaming sit in this tab because a hand is dealt in seconds; the maths of a live table belongs in the live tab.

Chicken Road download, Aviator download: nothing to install

The two things people hunt for before the first bet are a Chicken Road download and an Aviator download, so here is the short answer: there is nothing to download for either game. Both open in the browser from the Crash tab, and the same tab lives inside the Vavada app for iOS and Android, which installs from the casino site itself. A file named chicken road apk, offered by anyone other than the casino, is someone else's app with permissions to your phone attached.

What crash takes from your bonus and what it leaves the cashback

Everything important about money in this room fits into one line of the terms: the welcome bonus of 100% on the first deposit is wagered x35 and in slots only. A bonus stake in crash cancels the bonus outright, and the button never tells you whose money just went out. The bonus balance is kept apart from the main one, and while a bonus is active the stake comes off your own money first and off the bonus afterwards. Open Chicken Road with an unfinished x35 and stop watching where your own money ended, and the whole bonus is on the table. I have watched a bonus die exactly that way, on one careless bet. So the order is simple: either close the x35 in the slots tab, or switch the bonus off in your profile before the first round with the chicken. How that switch works and what else sits in the welcome package is on the bonuses page.

Status is a separate story. The casino counts it from the sum of bets per month, and the terms name slots and sports; crash has no line of its own there, so I would not count on the chicken carrying you to Silver. Cashback is friendlier: 10% is calculated from the net loss across the account, and at the time of the check crash was absent from the list of exceptions, where sports bets do sit. The X tournament is scored by the biggest multiplier of a single spin, which sounds like it was written for Aviator, yet the X tournament board carried no crash multiplier at the check. Prize pools and entry thresholds are on the tournaments page.

Five rules I set before the first round

After three quick breaks in a row the urge to win it back arrives on schedule, and that feeling is the most expensive thing in the tab. My list against it:

1. Auto cash out is filled in before the round, on every bet. My hand inside a round decides worse than my head before it.
2. The money for the evening is named before the first bet. When it runs out I close the tab, and the cashier stays untouched.
3. Stakes never double after a break. Chasing a crash curve is the shortest route to a zero balance.
4. Time reminders are switched on in the profile. Rounds of a few seconds swallow an hour and leave no trace of it.
5. The deposit limit is set in advance, and self exclusion, if it ever comes to that, goes through the support service. The tools and the six signs that it is time to stop are collected on the responsible gaming page.

Open Chicken Road now, or watch a few rounds first?

If you have played Aviator somewhere else, everything here will feel familiar, with the chicken first in the grid and the tab one tap away. If the format is new to you, start at the minimum stake with auto cash out on a low multiplier: two rounds teach the tempo better than any description. The red button leads to the casino site. Registration takes a couple of minutes and hands you 100 free spins with no deposit; they spin in slots, and the chicken waits in the same account, in the Crash tab.