Free Social Games

№2 Virtual Credits

A printed number, not a balance

Twenty-two hundred credits are printed onto the counter when the page opens. An exposure spends some of them, a cluster returns some. Nothing else in the world moves that number in either direction.

Virtual credits are not sold anywhere. This site carries no checkout, no cashier and no page that could accept a payment, and none is planned. They cannot be handed to another person, traded away or moved between accounts, because accounts do not exist here and there is no one to move them to. They cannot be withdrawn, converted or redeemed against cash, goods, vouchers, tokens or entry into anything at all.

They are never stored either. Nothing about a visit is written to your device or sent anywhere else. Reload the page and the counter reads twenty-two hundred again, which is the plainest evidence we can offer that it was a printed figure and not a balance.

If it runs down to nothing the game prints a fresh allocation without being asked. Nothing here can be lost and nothing needs topping up.

№3 Reading The Plate

Clusters, the settle, and a nine-rung climb

The plate is six columns wide and five rows deep, putting thirty impressions in front of you at once. Five or more of the same impression touching along an edge, above, below or to either side, count as one cluster and clear as a unit. Meeting at a corner is not touching. A diagonal never joins a cluster, which is what keeps the shape readable once the tethers are drawn over it.

A cleared cluster leaves a gap. Whatever stood above comes down into it, fresh impressions are printed along the top row, and if the settled arrangement makes another cluster it clears in turn with nothing further from you. A run of those is a chain.

Nine rungs, patient at first

This room climbs one, two, three, four, five, seven, ten, fifteen, twenty-two. The early rungs are almost flat on purpose. Nothing much happens on the second or third clear, and then the last three rungs arrive quickly. The interest lies in whether a single exposure can keep going long enough to reach them, which most cannot.

The panel, control by control

• Stake sets how many virtual credits each exposure uses. The two buttons step through five fixed values and stop at either end.
• Snap shortens the animation for anyone who would rather not wait out the settle.
• Expose prints a fresh thirty onto the plate.
• Session Net shows the distance between what has been staked and what has come back, for this browser tab and nothing wider.

All of it runs locally in your own browser. No outcome is fetched from a server, none is reported back, and refreshing clears the lot.

№4 Free Social Games

What a social game is, said plainly

Nebula Cradle publishes Free Social Games, which in our case comes to one page holding one demo game. You open it and you play it. Nothing asks who you are. There is no account waiting to be created, no wallet to load, no feature held back and no later point at which a price appears. The impressions on the plate are counted in virtual credits, and virtual credits stop existing the moment the tab closes.

Stating that outright matters, because the form is a borrowed one. Cascading grids and rising multipliers are the language of products designed to move money, and the resemblance carries assumptions with it. None of those assumptions hold here. Nothing on this page can win you money, cost you money, or become money at any later point by any route.

A closer comparison is a working model kept under glass. The mechanism runs honestly and repeats itself exactly, and the thing it models has been deliberately left out. The Stellar Nursery set is drawn from the sort of plates a print room of this kind would genuinely have filed away, and the grid holds up to as much scrutiny as you care to give it.

№5 Questions

Questions about Free Social Games

№6 Play Safe

Playing safely

If you or someone you know needs support, help is available across Canada. Contact the Responsible Gambling Council (RGC) for prevention resources, or ConnexOntario for 24/7 free confidential support at 1-866-531-2600.

• Responsible Gambling Council for prevention and education material.
• ConnexOntario, 1-866-531-2600, free and confidential, at any hour.

No money and no stake exist anywhere in Nebula Cradle, so it cannot leave you out of pocket. It can still take an evening from you, and a game built on settles and a climbing chain is made to keep you watching for one more exposure. If you notice yourself carrying on well past where you meant to stop, or reaching for something like this to take the weight off stress or a low mood, that is worth attending to whether or not money is involved. Take breaks. Set the limit on the clock rather than on the counter.

This site is meant for adults aged 18 and over. It is not built for children and should not be handed to them as a game.

Notice for Quebec residents

Real-money online gambling in Quebec is lawfully offered only by Loto-Québec. Nebula Cradle is a free social casino with no real-money play and is not affiliated with Loto-Québec or with any Canadian provincial lottery corporation.

№7 Stopping Early

Self-exclusion, and controls that do not depend on us

Sites in this area usually offer a self-exclusion setting that locks an account for a chosen period. We have none to offer, for the plain reason that there is no account here to lock. What we can do instead is point you at the controls that work whether or not a given website cooperates, and those already sit on the device in front of you.

• Browser and network blocking. Every major browser supports extensions that block a list of sites, and most home routers and mobile operating systems carry the same capability. A block applied there survives any amount of cookie clearing.
• Parental and screen-time controls. Windows, macOS, iOS and Android all ship with content filters and time limits. These are the right tool when the concern is another member of the household rather than yourself.
• Dedicated blocking software. Tools such as GamBan and BetBlocker exist specifically to block gambling and gambling-adjacent sites across a device or an entire home network, and they cost little or nothing.

If you have already self-excluded from real-money gambling, or you are working through a programme with a support service, putting free social games on the same block list is a reasonable step. The absence of money does not reliably mean the absence of a trigger, and every tool above treats this site exactly as it treats any other.

№8 Who We Are

About Nebula Cradle

Nebula Cradle is operated by Nebula Cradle Ltd. and publishes exactly one thing: a free social demo game on a stellar nursery theme, together with the legal and safety material that belongs beside it.

We are not a gambling operator, not an affiliate of one, and not a comparison or review site. We hold no gaming licence, because nothing we publish requires one, and we are not affiliated with any lottery corporation or real-money gaming brand. Nebula Cradle publishes free social games only.

Questions about this site, or about how it handles data, can go to privacy@nebulacradle.com, which reaches the people responsible for it.

№9 Privacy and Cookies

Privacy Policy

We handle personal information in accordance with the Canadian Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and applicable provincial privacy statutes. Under PIPEDA, you have the right to access, correct, or request deletion of your personal data, and to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (priv.gc.ca).

What we collect

Nothing that identifies you. There is no registration, no form and no input field anywhere on this site asking for personal information. We do not collect your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, date of birth or payment details, because nothing on the site would have any use for them.

Game data

Your stake, your credit counter and your session totals sit in your browser's memory for as long as the tab stays open. They are never transmitted to us and never written to your device. Closing or refreshing the page discards all of it.

Cookies

This site sets no cookies. It uses no local storage, no session storage and nothing comparable, and it loads no third-party scripts, fonts, analytics or advertising tags that could set one on our behalf. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to. Your browser may still keep its ordinary cache of the page files, which is outside our control and holds nothing about you.

Server logs

Our hosting provider records standard web server request logs, which can include an IP address, a timestamp and a browser user agent string. They exist to keep the site running and secure, are not tied to any identity, and are never used to build a profile or shared for advertising.

Your rights

Since we hold no personal information about you, there is generally nothing to access, correct or delete. If you believe otherwise, write to privacy@nebulacradle.com and we will respond.

№10 Terms of Use

Terms and Conditions

Acceptance

By using Nebula Cradle you accept these terms. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site. We may revise them from time to time, and continued use after a revision means you accept the revised version.

Eligibility and age

This site is intended for adults aged 18 and over. By using it you confirm that you meet that age requirement and that playing a free social game is lawful where you live.

Acceptable use

Use the site as it is presented. Do not interfere with it, probe it for vulnerabilities, script or automate play, reverse engineer it for republication, or use it in any way that misleads somebody about what it is. Do not present it to a person under 18.

Virtual credits and no cash value

Virtual credits are a display feature of a demo game. They are not money, not a deposit, not a stored balance and not property. They cannot be purchased, sold, transferred, withdrawn, redeemed or exchanged for anything of value, and they hold no value outside this page. We may change how they behave, or remove them altogether, at any time and without notice.

Intellectual property

The design, artwork, text and code of this site belong to Nebula Cradle Ltd. or are used with permission. You may view and play the site; you may not copy, republish or redistribute its content without our written permission.

Limitation of liability

The site is provided as it is, without warranties of any kind. We do not promise uninterrupted or error-free operation. To the fullest extent the law allows, we are not liable for any loss arising from the use of, or the inability to use, this site. Nothing here limits liability that cannot lawfully be limited.

Modifications and availability

We may change, suspend or withdraw the site or any part of it at any time and without notice, and we are under no obligation to keep it available.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Canada and of the province in which the operator is established, and the courts of that jurisdiction have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute.