What it says between spins
A prompt is an interruption with a purpose: it is the screen deciding that this is the moment to put a decision in front of you. Prompts are the part of the interface that keeps working after the session ends.
Two families of prompt
| Prompt | What it is asking for | Where its conditions are stated |
|---|---|---|
| A win celebration | Another spin, while attention is already on the screen | The paytable and the game's help screen |
| A progress or jackpot bar | Continued play to advance a displayed state | The terms of the feature, which say whether progress is stored, whether it expires, and whether advancement is random |
| A countdown between rounds | The next decision, on a fixed rhythm | The game's own timing, and in some markets a rule about it |
| An expiring bonus badge | Play before a deadline | The offer's terms: the wagering requirement, the games that count, the expiry |
| A notification or email | Returning to a session | The notification settings of the account, and the operator's marketing consent |
The distinction that matters is between a prompt whose conditions are on the same screen and one whose conditions are elsewhere. A countdown is self-describing. An expiring bonus is not: the badge shows the deadline and hides the arithmetic that has to be completed before the deadline is worth anything.
The arithmetic behind an expiring offer
An offer with a deadline is not a wrong offer; it is an offer with a cost attached, and the cost is usually expressed as a multiple of the bonus. A worked example of ordinary shape:
stakes required = 50 × 30 = £1,500
spins required at £1 = 1,500 spins
at 400 spins an hour = 3 hours 45 minutes of play
at 1,200 spins an hour on turbo = 1 hour 15 minutes
expected margin paid on that turnover at 4% = 1,500 × 0.04 = £60 against a £50 bonus
games weighted below 100% make the same £1,500 of stakes require more spins again
That last line is why the badge is the least informative part of the offer. The deadline is a simple number; the requirement is the number that decides whether the offer is worth taking, and the weighting table is the number that decides how long it takes. The full structure of wagering terms belongs to the network's bonus desk; here the point is narrower — a prompt shows the deadline because a deadline is a motive, and it tends to show the requirement as a footnote.
The countdown, and the wait it removes
Some interfaces place a fixed pause between rounds, and some place a countdown that makes the pause feel like a queue rather than a decision point. The pause is not decoration: it is a number of seconds in which a player can stop, and it has a direct arithmetic consequence, because fewer seconds per round means more rounds per hour at the same margin.
Because that consequence is real, it is also regulated in places: minimum round durations, mandatory breaks after a period of continuous play, and restrictions on autoplay on slots all exist in some markets. The rules page sets out what those rules constrain and what they leave untouched.
Notifications are a setting, and the default matters
Marketing prompts — push notifications, emails and in-app messages — are governed by the account's own consent settings, which are typically switched on as part of opening an account and switched off in a settings screen. The design question is where that switch lives: a consent that can only be changed in the account panel, rather than next to the notification itself, is a consent that is easier to keep than to revoke.
The link below is the disclosed sponsored link and the only commercial element on this page. It is not an offer, it carries no bonus and no deadline, and nothing here claims that any promotion is available where you are.
Open the partner accountThis page explains what prompts are for and where their conditions live; it does not recommend an offer, a bonus or a deadline, and it is not a method for extracting value from a promotion. How wagering requirements, game weightings and expiry windows work in full is the subject of the network's bonus-terms desk, and how to set deposit limits, loss limits and breaks is the subject of its limits desk.