The number draw · 18+
Apothecary Keno
Eighty small drawers in a copper-brown cabinet, each with its own label. Choose up to ten, set a stake and press Draw: twenty drawers open one after another. The more of yours that open, the more Juniper Berries you collect.
How to play
Tap any of the eighty numbered drawers to choose it; tap it again to change your mind. You can choose as few as one or as many as ten. If you’d rather not decide, Quick pick chooses six at random, and Clear empties your selection.
Set your stake for the draw with the chips, then press Draw 20. Twenty of the eighty drawers open in turn, outlined in copper. Any that you chose turn lemon-gold as they open, so you can follow your luck along the cabinet. Your picks stay in place after the draw, ready for the next one.
Reading the paytable
The table under the cabinet changes with the number of drawers you’ve chosen. Each row shows how many of your picks need to open and what that returns, as a multiple of your stake. Choose four numbers, for example, and two matches return your stake, three return four times it and all four return a hundred times.
More picks mean longer odds for a full house of matches but more ways to land something. A single pick is the simplest bet in the cabinet and returns three times your stake if it opens. With ten picks there’s even a small return for matching none at all, because twenty drawers opening without touching any of your ten is rarer than you’d think.
When the draw finishes, the row you landed on lights up so you can see exactly where the berries came from.
Draws and berries
The stake is taken from your Juniper Berries when you press Draw, and anything collected is added when the twentieth drawer opens. The draw itself is shuffled fresh each time on your own device. If your balance falls below 5,000 JB, the refill button tops it back up at no cost. Berries can’t be bought, transferred or exchanged, and there are no prizes.
The apothecary’s cabinet
Before there were gin palaces there were apothecaries, and juniper sat in their drawers alongside the rest of the medicine chest: cassia, liquorice, grains of paradise, orris powder. Their cabinets were walls of tiny drawers, each with a hand-lettered label in a fine black border. Our keno board borrows that wall. Opening twenty of eighty drawers at random felt like the right sort of rummage.
Lucky numbers, briefly
Every draw is independent. Birthdays, “overdue” numbers and patterns on the board make no difference, so choose whatever you enjoy. If keno starts to feel like something you need to get right, take a break; the responsible play page has tools to help.
Three questions
How many numbers should I pick?
There is no best number. Fewer picks give smaller, more frequent returns; more picks give rarer, larger ones. Try a few and see which pace you like.
Are my numbers kept between draws?
Yes. Your picks stay selected after each draw, so you can press Draw again straight away or change a few first.
Can a number be drawn twice?
No. Each draw takes twenty different numbers from the eighty, just like drawers that can only be opened once per round.