docs.lyr · doc 04
The brakes in Safe Mode
A short guide to the Safe Mode tools and when each one helps most.
Before a session: budget and caps
Decisions made before you start are sturdier than decisions made mid-session. A daily round budget sets a ceiling for the whole day, and only a lower number takes effect the same day. A session cap on rounds, minutes or pixels down ends the session and hides the layers for half an hour.
During a session: checkpoints and the Inspector
A checkpoint stops the game every 15 to 60 minutes and shows the session's plain numbers. The Inspector beside every game shows them all the time. If either one surprises you, the surprise is the useful part.
To get out: Stop for now and pauses
Stop for now saves and closes the session and hides the layers for the break you chose, from 15 minutes to two hours. Choose an hour or longer, up to a month, and the pause holds to its last minute: longer is allowed, shorter is not. Pause is in the top bar of every page.
Beyond the site
Gambling with real money as well? Signing up to GAMSTOP and switching on your bank's gambling block shut a lot of doors in one go, and 0808 8020 133, the National Gambling Helpline, will talk it through at no cost, whatever the hour.
18+ — for entertainment only. No real money play. No prizes of monetary value.