How to Play Aviator: Rules, Cash-Out and Payouts Explained
By BDG Game Desk, Game operations team · Updated 6 October 2026 · 3 min read
Aviator is a crash game, and it is the simplest of these games to understand: a plane takes off, a multiplier climbs from 1.00×, and you press one button to cash out. Whatever the multiplier reads at the instant you press it is what your stake is multiplied by. If the plane flies away first, the stake is gone. You can watch live rounds of our Aviator game without an account.
The round structure
- Betting window. Place your stake before take-off. Once the plane leaves, no new bets are accepted for that round.
- Flight, the multiplier climbs. Cash out at any moment.
- Crash, the plane leaves. Anyone who has not cashed out loses their stake.
- A new round opens a few seconds later. Every round is independent of the last.
What cash-out actually does
Cash-out is a request to the server, not a decision made in your browser. When you press it, the server checks its own clock against the round’s crash point and pays the multiplier at the moment your request landed. That matters: a modified client cannot choose its own number, and a request arriving a fraction late simply loses. It also means network lag works against you at high multipliers, the number on screen is honoured only if the request gets there in time.
Auto cash-out
Setting an auto cash-out at, say, 1.80× tells the server to take you out the moment the round reaches that figure. It removes reaction time from the equation, and it keeps working if you close the tab, the round still settles at your target if it got there. It is the single most useful setting in the game for anyone who would rather not stare at a screen.
Reading the history strip
The row of past multipliers above the game is genuinely just history. It is not a pattern, nothing is ever "due", and a run of low numbers tells you nothing about the next round. Each crash point is drawn independently from that round’s own seed. Any strategy that depends on reading that strip does not work.
The odds
| Cash-out target | How often it is reached | Return |
|---|---|---|
| 1.20× | about 80% of rounds | 96.5% |
| 1.50× | about 64% of rounds | 96.5% |
| 2.00× | about 48% of rounds | 96.5% |
| 5.00× | about 19% of rounds | 96.5% |
| 10.00× | about 10% of rounds | 96.5% |
Every row returns exactly 96.5%, and that is the point worth internalising. The chance of a round reaching any multiplier x is 0.96525 ÷ x, so x times that chance comes out the same at every target: cashing out early and holding for a big multiplier have identical expected value and differ only in volatility. About 3.5% of rounds end at 1.00×, which is where the house edge sits.
Verifying a round
- Before betting opens, the round publishes the SHA-256 hash of its secret seed.
- The crash point is derived from that seed alone. Your stake is not an input.
- After the round, the seed is published. Hash it and compare it to the commitment.
- The round verifier does this for any past Aviator round and shows the commitment, the seed and the crash point side by side.
A word on "predictors"
Any app, signal group or bot claiming to predict crash points is a scam, without exception. The crash point comes from a cryptographic hash committed before betting opens; it cannot be computed from the history, the animation, or anything else visible on screen. Anyone selling a predictor is selling you a losing bet plus their fee. Verify rounds yourself instead, it is free, and our guide to checking whether a result is fair shows how.