
Lampblack Library
Up the back stair, hundreds of candles light a two-storey reading library where books float loose and a friendly ghost turns the proofs in an armchair. When two hourglasses glow on a quiet spin, the last reel gets a second read.
Brass quoins wedge a forme of lead tight on Brevier's imposing stone under a cool window light. Anyone may spin at once, and every turn of the quoin key in the free round squeezes the boost a notch higher.
Lockup Stone is where every job in the cellar begins: Brevier squares the type in its iron frame, taps it level and drives the brass quoins home. Its reels run at a middling pace, with blank lead bars, daubers and type drawers bringing the small returns while the Locked Forme and the tall Oak Case Tower hold the weightier pays. A Ratchet Quoin stands in for any symbol except the Vermilion Dab. Three dabs anywhere start Quoin Key Squeeze with ten free spins, the boost tightening from x2 to x4 across the opening four; four dabs give fifteen, five give twenty-two, and dabs landing mid-round add spins.
Quoin Key Squeeze. On the stone the free-spin boost starts at x2 for the first two spins, tightens to x3 for the next two, then locks at x4 for every remaining spin; once tightened, the quoins stay tight until the round closes.
Every pull here is paid for in free virtual coins. There is no real-money gambling, no win carries real-world value, and nothing is sold in-app. A random number generator decides each result, and no past spin ever bears on the next.
Measured by running this page's own engine for 10,000,000 spins: coin RTP 92.5%, hit frequency 34.8%, free spins about once in 132 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 115 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Come down the cellar steps and Brevier has already counted coins out of his type drawer for you. No name is taken at the door and nothing needs fetching.
Choose a stake and spin. A Ratchet Quoin wedges into any gap on a line; the Vermilion Dab is the one symbol it will not replace.
Three Vermilion Dabs start Quoin Key Squeeze: ten free spins with the boost reading x2, x2, x3, x3 and then locking at x4 until the round is done.
First-timers who would rather feel the stone's rhythm before a brass key is cut, and anyone who likes a mid-paced round whose bonus grows tighter with each turn.
Paid spins return small amounts fairly often. Quoin Key Squeeze keeps its strongest boost for the later spins, so the stone usually saves its best moments for the end.
| Symbol on the sheet | Five matching sorts on a line | That win, set against the total stake |
|---|---|---|
| 5,000× line bet | 200× your stake | |
| 2,600× line bet | 104× your stake | |
| 1,400× line bet | 56× your stake | |
| 800× line bet | 32× your stake | |
| 550× line bet | 22× your stake | |
| 320× line bet | 12.8× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three Vermilion Dabs anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
No. Anyone can spin the stone straight from the page; only the reading library and the despatch room ask for a free account.
Yes. Brevier carries them up from the stone and adds them to the 100,000 tied to every new key.
They do. Three or more dabs landing mid-round add spins, and the boost keeps whatever notch it had reached.
Missions are reset each day and count across every world. Nobody has to do them.

Up the back stair, hundreds of candles light a two-storey reading library where books float loose and a friendly ghost turns the proofs in an armchair. When two hourglasses glow on a quiet spin, the last reel gets a second read.

Finished cards from the press are sorted under green-shaded lamps into walls of pigeonholes, stamped, tied with red string and stacked on a brass trolley. The boldest room in the cellar, where winning letters tumble out and each link pays more.
Play while it amuses you, and stop the moment it does not. Pick your finishing time before the first pull and leave the stone now and then. If gambling of any kind is causing you problems, the National Gambling Helpline is free and confidential on 0808 8020 133, whatever the hour, or visit GamCare and BeGambleAware. Read how the cellar handles keeping play in proportion.
Only grown-ups of 18 and over belong at Typecase Cellar. Each game runs on virtual coins with no monetary value, and they cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged. You will find no coin counter and no payment page on any sheet of this site, no prize of real-world value is put up, and success here does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
If gambling is pressing on you, free and confidential help is one call away: National Gambling Helpline 0808 8020 133, answered day and night · BeGambleAware · GamCare · How the cellar keeps play in proportion
Your coins are shared by all three worlds. A free account unlocks each of them and keeps your coins, favourites, level and daily missions filed between visits, like proofs on Brevier’s spike.
Not ready? Spin the open world, Lockup Stone — no email needed.