All relevant info is visible at the front size of the game machine.

The price, prize and target score show that the game costs L$1, the player can win L$2 when scoring more than 38,661 points.

There is of course a relation between price, prize and target score, you won’t find a game anywhere that costs L$1, you can win L$200 and the target score is 20,000. The higher the target score the higher the winnings can be, but the harder it gets to win.

Needing 38,661 in order to win twice our money is a fair deal. So we can right click the game, pay it L$1 and the game will start immediately. Let’s start playing. Later on, at the bottom of this page, we describe all game elements in detail.

As you see you can receive points for matching a number. When you match all numbers on a row, column or diagonal you’ll get extra points. Completing the colored letter (we’ll talk about that a bit later) gives a whole bunch of points and filling the entire board gives a whole lot.

Jokers and question marks appear on the spinner. You get the points added automatically.

Multipliers and Spider are hidden on the play board. You don’t know (at least not at the start of the game) where they are. If you match a number where a multiplier is hidden, all score from that moment on will be multiplied by 2. There are two multipliers, match the other one and all score form that moment on will be multiplied by 3.

The spider can spoil that party. There is only one spider hidden on the play board. When you reveal the spider you’ll see the multiplier value drop with one step. So, if you had 2 it will become 1 again, if you had 3, it will become 2. If you had nothing yet, the spider is harmless.

Let’s play a game and walk through what happens.

We start the game by paying it. Right click the game machine, choose Pay, choose the amount you want to play for, in this example we only have one choice and off we go. The game starts.

As you see here at the right, the game starts with generating a new play board and a new spinner. We can start playing.

The question mark on the spinner gave us already 150 points and we got 1000 points because there is a joker on the spinner as well. A nice start, we already got 1150 points.

We also see some fields at the play board in yellow. These make together a letter N. It is not something we have to bother much about in the beginning of the game, but this is the letter mentioned on the score card. Completing this letter would give 3000 points.

As you see at the left, the first round gives us 2 possible number matches and a joker. There is a good reason to play the number matches first, because they might give information we can use deciding where to put our Joker.

We make a number match by clicking the number on the play board (Not on the spinner as that would end the round before playing something).

The grey arrow points to the spider. So the spider has to be hidden at number 63.

We played 2 matches, gaining 2 times 200 = 400 points.

Let’s not forget to play the wild on the 4th column.

We can choose any field on that column to play it on. 59 is a pretty neat choice: It helps in completing a horizontal, vertical and diagonal line a bit more, it is on the yellow letter and might give information with a red arrow on where that multiplier is.

Instead of an arrow we see a yellow star. The game only gives yellow stars as it can’t show a red or grey arrow. So we know that at the same column, same row or same diagonals as the star is there is neither a multiplier nor a spider. That makes it also sure the multiplier on the 2nd column is behind 24 and not 26.

At the right I put a red cross over each number we know has neither a multiplier nor a spider. We know where the spider is and the other multiplier can only be at a limited number of spots. (Either 5, 8, 10, 27, 32 or 39) Yayy!!

We have played all we can play. We click on the spinner in order to move on to the next round.

As you can see on the left, the second round brings us two possible matches to play. 8 and 54.

On first sight, one would say, just play these numbers and go on to the next round.

Yes. Let’s do that, that will bring 400 points. But..we know 8 can contain a multiplier and 54 cannot. So, if we play the numbers in the order 8,54 then we have a chance the 200 points for 54 will be doubled. When we play in the order 54, 8 we miss that chance.

200 points is not a lot, but enough to care about.

As we see on the right, it worked out. 8 did contain the multiplier. Note that the 2000 points we got for revealing the multiplier got doubled too…since the multiplier is revealed.

Nice! On to the next round. We click on the spinner to move on.

The next round doesn’t give us much to do. We have only one number we can match, 74.

We click the 74 on the play board, collecting 400 points as everything is multiplied with 2 now. Then we click the spinner to move on to the next round.

The next round is giving us 2 numbers to match. That’s always a good thing, points are coming in slowly but we also fill up spots so that in rounds to come might be able to complete lines.

We can match 27 and 61, the order doesn’t matter as there is nothing with spiders or multipliers that could be on either of both tiles.

After we clicked both tiles on the board, the board looks as shown here to the right.

We click on the spinner to move to the next round.

We got a joker. We can play it anywhere on the column.
Note that we received 2000 points for it (1000×2).

So, our sincere apologies for the numbers 29 and 26 but we’ll be off gaining a whole bunch of points and a x3 multiplier, by clicking 24.

At the picture on the right you see we gained besides 400 points for matching 24 also 6000 points for revealing the multiplier. (2000×3)

Score is moving up hard. But let’s not start celebrating yet, we gained in total 10.000 points for revealing both multipliers. All multipliers are revealed now, so the remaining points needed will have to be collected with other means.

Let’s move to the next round. See what it brings.

The next round is a bit a bummer. Nothing to match at all, with scoring zero extra points we move on to the next round.

The next round, shown here to the right, again has no matches to make at all. )):

Getting no match during a round or even a few rounds in a row is not something remarkable. When playing No Devil you can have quite a few rounds without any matches, surely near the end of the game when already a lot of tiles are matched.

This round we got something again. We can match 15.

But that is also all. So we click 15 on the play board and then on the spinner to move to the next round.

This round we can match 63 and 31.

With a great pleasure we match 31.

Great, 2 Jokers.
So get a whole bunch of points just for having the Jokers and we can choose ourselves where to play them.

Since both jokers have nothing to do with possible spiders and/or multipliers we try to place them strategically in order to increase our chances on future line matches and/or matching the letter.

It is clear that the Joker on the second column can be best played on 29. 29 and 26 are both on a diagonal but 29 is also on the letter and it is on that diagonal we can match without that the spider gets revealed.

Let’s go on to the next round.

This round we got a question mark. Furthermore nothing to match.

We have a x3 multiplier. Thus, the points of a question mark are also multiplied with 3. This question mark added us a sweet 1290 points. Great, on to the next round.

As you see in figure 24, nothing to match in the next round. So, all we can do is go one round further and see what that brings.

There is a joker again, giving us 3000 points because we are pretty and sweet, and because we have the X3 multiplier.

We can play the joker anywhere we want in the column but in this case, the only free spot is 26. So, we play it there. That will give something we was waiting for: Our first line match. We filled the entire second column and will receive 1500 points for that.

Now we are at the subject anyways: Missing numbers, not seeing or forgetting to play a match can be a painful mistake in this game. Try to be as accurate as you can be, it really helps in winning more.

We didn’t forget a thing, so we move on to the next round.

Wow, 2 more jokers. We won’t be silly enough to play one at 63 and get that horrible spider out, we nicely take 71, match another line which brings enough points to win this game. For the other one 47 is a good spot, it gives hope that we can make another line later with 5.

You see 40,040 points at the picture on the right/.that’s more than enough.