What we check first
Our starting point for any Spribe title is the official game page, not aggregator listings or affiliate copy. For Aviator, that means spribe.co/games/aviator, where the studio states a 97% RTP figure. We treat that as the only verified number for return-to-player and do not average it against third-party estimates or apply a range that the studio itself has not published.
Volatility, maximum win, bet limits, and reel or paytable structure get the same treatment. If Spribe has not published a figure on its own domain, we mark it unverified rather than borrowing a number from a casino operator's game description or a review aggregator. This applies directly to Aviator: max win, hit frequency, and bet range are not confirmed in the official source, so none of those figures appear as hard numbers on this site.
We also separate game type from marketing labels. Aviator is a crash game, not a slot, and some third-party pages mislabel it as one. We classify it by its actual mechanic — a rising multiplier with a manual or automatic cash-out — rather than by how an operator's lobby happens to categorize it.
How we handle conflicting sources
Aviator is a case where third-party sources disagree with each other. Some list a 10,000x cap on winnings and a bet range from ten cents to one hundred dollars; others describe no fixed cap or a different limit entirely. None of these figures trace back to a Spribe-published source, so we do not present any of them as fact. Where sources conflict and no official confirmation exists, we say so once and move on, instead of repeating a disclaimer in every section.
Market availability gets checked separately from game math. For Canada, we confirmed that Aviator went live in Ontario following AGCO supplier approval through iGaming Ontario, based on reporting from Canadian Gaming Business and Gambling News. Outside Ontario, availability depends on the individual operator and provincial rules, so we describe it as operator-specific rather than assuming nationwide access.
This process is slower than pulling numbers from a casino's game tile, but it means a reader who checks the Spribe page after reading our review finds the same RTP figure we quoted, and does not find a max win or bet range we invented to fill a gap.