A brick lock where white-ended balance beams swing the gates, water gushes through the paddles and a whitewashed cottage with a red door watches over it. Anyone can spin here straight away, and a paid spin that comes up dry gets a free second go with the gate wilds held in place.
Paddlegear Lock is the chamber Jory never leaves unattended, so the reels are in motion before you have finished scrolling. It is the gentlest mooring: Ash-Grip Windlasses, Roped Mooring Pins and Ratchet Paddle Gears trickle in small wins, like water through the paddles. On the lock the Mitred Gates wild deputises for everything bar the White Milepost. After an empty paid spin the gates are held where they fell and the other squares turn over once more, free. Mileposts pay wherever they stand; a trio swings open ten free spins, a quartet fifteen and a full set of five twenty-five, with later mileposts adding more.
Held Gates. A paid spin that pays nothing leaves every Mitred Gates wild locked where it fell, while all remaining squares take one free respin.
Only free virtual coins are used here. No real-money gambling, no wins of real-world value, no in-app purchases. A random number generator settles every result; one spin never shapes the next.
Measured by running this page's own engine for 10,000,000 spins: coin RTP 97.0%, hit frequency 47.8%, free spins about once in 119 spins, a win of 10x your stake or more about once in 108 spins. Coin figures only — no money is staked or returned.
Open the page and the lock is already working: Jory has left a stack of coins on the balance beam, and nothing stands in the way: no form, nothing to download.
Choose a stake and spin. The Mitred Gates wild finishes lines for every picture bar the White Milepost.
If a paid spin wins nothing, the gate wilds hold and every other square spins again for free. Three White Mileposts unlock ten free spins, four unlock fifteen, all five unlock twenty-five.
First-timers keen to test the reels before opening an account, and anyone who likes the gentle pace of lock-wheeling more than big swings.
The calmest stretch of the canal. Small wins come along often, and the held-gates respin after an empty paid spin softens any quiet patch.
| Symbol on the lock reel | Five in line along one payline | Portion of your total stake |
|---|---|---|
 Mitred Gates (wild) | 4,500× line bet | 180× your stake |
 Red-Door Cottage | 2,200× line bet | 88× your stake |
 White-Tipped Beam | 1,100× line bet | 44× your stake |
 Ratchet Paddle Gear | 650× line bet | 26× your stake |
 Roped Mooring Pin | 440× line bet | 17.6× your stake |
 Ash-Grip Windlass | 260× line bet | 10.4× your stake |
The five card ranks (10 to A) pay the least. Three White Mileposts anywhere open the free round. Full values for three and four of a kind are in the paytable.
No. The lock works for everyone the moment the page opens; only Lower Pound Rise and Feederbrook Mill ask for a free account.
Yes. Jory adds them to the 100,000 that every new licence starts with.
No. The gates are held only when a paid spin comes back empty; free spins carry on without that extra go.
Missions reset daily and count on every lock. Entirely optional.
Below the overflow hatches the canal spills into a deep, still pool, and at dusk the mayflies lift off it in a golden haze while the trout rise. The boldest mooring on the canal, where two floats on a spin that misses buy reel five another cast.
Follow the feeder stream up into the pinewoods and you reach an old timber sawmill at sunrise, its wheel churning the millrace and a golden saw blade catching the light. A middle-paced walk where the free-spin multiplier only ever climbs.
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18 or over? Then Lockkeeper Canal is for you; younger, it is not. Every game here runs on virtual coins with no monetary value. They cannot be bought, sold, withdrawn or exchanged. No coin shop. No payment page. No prizes of real-world value. And success here does not imply future success at real-money gambling.
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