How the Shortlist works

Each of the nine casinos gets one card, and every card carries the same rows. They cover floor hours, days with live tables, poker, a hotel on site or next door, RV parking, shows, food, and who runs the casino. Where a casino publishes nothing on a row, the card says so. Silence never counts as yes or no.

The Shortlist runs in your browser. You keep a card or skip it, and the kept cards stand side by side with the rows where they differ marked.

Cards come in alphabetical order, or shuffled at random when you ask for it. Neither order puts one casino above another.

On a card, each distance is measured as a straight line rather than as a driving distance. Starting from the OpenStreetMap coordinates of each casino, the guide works out the line to three points: Prince Albert, Regina City Hall and Saskatoon City Hall. No travel times are given.

Any casino without a picture gets a card face drawn by code: a dot on Saskatchewan's outline from Natural Earth, public domain. The same face gives straight-line distances to Saskatoon and Regina and the published week of floor and live-table hours. Five pictures in all are generated images, each modelled on real photos of the place it shows. They show Bear Claw's entrance, Casino Regina's front in the former Union Station, its slot hall, Painted Hand's entrance canopy and Moose Jaw's Main Street with the casino front. None of the five shows people, and no photos from other sources appear anywhere on the site.