Here's how it actually works.
Every game has a house edge. It's how the business works. Knowing the edge helps you pick your games and set your budget.
A player website, in your own style.
Start with a design that fits your program. Try your name, colors, and voice on a page that helps players understand the games they play and the choices they have.
Explore the gallery to shape your website, or download the starter HTML to edit and host a self-contained page yourself.
Copy, edit, and publish the starter template for free under CC0. The HTML needs no build step; game scope, local disclosures, translations, and working service links still need review.
Website designs
One Playbook. A style that feels like yours.
Explore 14 designs, then try palettes, type, imagery, and voice with your program name. Preview the full page or use your choices to plan a supported setup.
After hours
A full-bleed evening scene, an unhurried opening, and an image-led game library. Player information that feels at home in an entertainment venue.
Try this design →
Open air
An expansive photograph and a quiet inset reading panel. A considered starting point for player knowledge, personal boundaries, and life beyond the screen.
Try this design →Fieldnotes
A typography-led campaign connecting your player page with practical messages on the floor and in take-away materials.
Try this design →The gallery lets you explore and share an appearance. To edit a self-contained file yourself, try the starter HTML below.
About the starter template
A page written for the player.
This template starts from what a player needs. It explains the underlying math, names the common myths, and makes setting a limit feel like a feature, not a punishment.
The result is useful player education rather than a page designed only to satisfy a compliance requirement.
Every game has math. Every player has choices. Know the odds, use the tools, and decide what works for you.
The template’s own opening line
Starter HTML preview
Try the starter page right here.
The complete template is running below. Switch between desktop and mobile, then try the odds explorer and myth quiz. Player-tool links are examples until connected to your services.
playbookrg.com/template/rg-page.html
The template is one HTML file (402.8 KiB), with its scripts and quiz data embedded. Load it here to try the odds explorer, myth quiz, and player tools in place.
The preview runs the downloadable template in an iframe. The explorer and quiz are demonstrations. Tool, support, and exclusion links need your working services and verified destinations. Preview interactions are not saved here.
What’s inside
One guided path through the content.
The page moves a visitor from a single question to the odds, the myths, the tools, and, if needed, information about taking a break and finding support. The sections below are included in the downloadable file.
Opening
Play on your terms
A single question directs players to the information they need next: the odds or the limit-setting tools. There is no long policy page to work through first.
Odds explorer
Pick your games. See the underlying math.
An interactive explorer with example game figures. Match each figure to the actual game, rules, paytable, and assumptions before publication.
Myth quiz
Think you know the game?
A short myth-versus-math quiz that names the belief, corrects it, and tracks progress. It teaches the reasoning, not just the answer.
Player tools
Explore your account options.
Cards explain account tools and link to configurable destinations. The HTML does not create or enforce account limits, session monitoring, or player dashboards.
Take a break
Explain the route to an account break.
An introduction to breaks and self-exclusion. Connect it to the actual eligibility, terms, confirmation, enforcement, and support process; this static page cannot exclude a player.
Support
Here if you need it.
The helpline, chat, and text lines up front, with additional resources such as Gamblers Anonymous and GamTalk. Replace the example contacts with verified local channels, hours, and destinations.
The player tools
Section: features that work for you
Budget planner
Decide what you are prepared to lose.
Deposit limit
Choose a cap on money you deposit.
Session timer
Check the time settings for your account.
Reality check
Review reminders about time and activity.
Play dashboard
Review the activity recorded in your account.
Loss limit
Understand how a loss cap is calculated.
Additional capabilities
Multilingual, built in
The player interface and all 20 quiz questions have English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, and Arabic editions, with right-to-left Arabic layout. Game-figure cards and linked guides are English. The operator tour and brand panel are also English. The brand panel selects language from the primary jurisdiction in an uploaded _brand.yml. Translations still need native-speaker review; language selection does not establish local approval.
A guided walkthrough
An optional tour overlay steps a first-time visitor through the page, so the tools are discovered rather than buried.
Try your brand, live
A built-in panel loads _brand.yml and brand CSS for a preview. Export those settings separately from the configurator, and review the resulting content, contacts, links, and notices.
One file, no build step
The core styles, scripts, icons, quiz editions and game data are embedded. Local font fallbacks work without a font download; choosing language or brand settings can request optional Google Fonts. Source links, full guides and account services require their own destinations. No build step is needed to use the generated HTML.
Get it
Download, adapt, and publish.
Download the page and open it in a browser, or fork the repository and make it part of your build. The template is public domain, so no license fee or attribution is required.
Download it
One HTML file (402.8 KiB), with scripts, quiz editions and game data embedded. Open it or host it as a page on your site. Optional online fonts and external service links need a connection.
Download website template HTMLAdd your details and test the connections
Export _brand.yml and brand-inject.css from the configurator’s Advanced settings → Review step. Load them in the downloaded template’s brand panel. Verify game rules, language, support hours, age notices, and working limit/exclusion links before local approval.
Prepare brand settings →Read the source
The template lives in the open Playbook repository, alongside the content feeds and widgets it draws on.
Developers & API →One note
The file comes Playbook-branded, with placeholder tokens such as {{PROGRAM_NAME}} and {{HELPLINE_NUMBER}}. Replace them with your program details before launch. To apply your identity, provide a _brand.yml and a brand-inject.css. The built-in preview panel shows the configured page before you publish it.
In the system
The template is one piece of the open Brand core.
Prepare for publication
A responsible-gambling page worth reading.
Copy and adapt the Brand template for free. Match its games and messages to your operation, connect real services, and review the completed page before publication.