Parallax

What Parallax is

Parallax is built the way old side-scrolling games built their worlds: in strips that move at different speeds to fake depth. Here each strip carries five pictures, a sun, a moon, a mountain, a pine, a cloud or a kite, and the three strips glide in from the left, the back one first and the front one last.

Read the five columns top to bottom. A column with the same picture in all three strips lights up and returns a multiple of the column stake. The front strip also carries a lantern that stands in for any picture, but only in that strip.

When three or more lit columns sit side by side they form a scene, and every column in the scene is doubled. Scenes are uncommon; most rounds light nothing at all, and that is how the game is meant to feel: quiet, with the odd panorama.

Playing a round

1. Pick a stake of 5, 15, 25, 75 or 150 px. It is split equally between the five columns.
2. Press Scroll the scene. The three strips slide into place.
3. Each column that shows one picture in all three strips (the front lantern counts as any) returns its multiple of the column stake.
4. Three or more lit columns in a row double each of them.

Paytable

What each result returns. Multiply by your stake, or by the line or column stake where the table says so. The table is printed from the file the game reads.

Fair play

Every shape, picture, card, die and token is drawn by your browser's cryptographic random source at the moment you press the button. Nothing adapts to you, to your pixels or to how long you have played, and no round remembers another. The paytable on this page is printed from the same data file the game reads. Pixels carry no cash value, cannot be bought, and there is nothing on the site to spend them on.

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