About
About Thornhallow
Thornhallow is a small, free site of original casino-style games for adults in the United Kingdom. It has no shop, no accounts and no adverts, and the games are played for dew, a play unit with no cash value.
What we make
We design every game ourselves: the rules, the maths and the code, with artwork made for this site. The six games on the Briar borrow shapes from reel games, card races, patience and old pub and party dice games, then change one thing that makes each of them its own. Heartwood reads its lines from the middle; Briar Climb grows its reels; Moth Muster turns a beetle drive into a moth.
What we do not do
- We do not sell dew, extras or anything else, and we never will.
- We do not offer real-money gambling or link to it, and we have no connection with any gambling business.
- We do not show adverts or use trackers, and we set no cookies.
- We do not invent players, scores or reviews.
Why the Briar is a tree
We wanted the site to be a place to explore rather than a lobby to scroll. A skill tree, like the ones in role-playing games, felt right: every node is a game you can read before you enter, the branches group games that play alike, and the roots hold the parts that matter most. The Clearing, our Responsible Play page, is literally the root.
The Library
Some of us spend our evenings with free and open-source games made by volunteer communities, so we wrote a guide to eight of them. The Library is separate from the Briar and has nothing to do with dew.
Contact
Write to hello@thornhallow.co.uk or use Get in touch. For Responsible Play questions, care@thornhallow.co.uk; for data, privacy@thornhallow.co.uk.