How to Play Aviator
Aviator is a crash game: you place a bet, a little plane takes off and a multiplier climbs from 1.00x upward, and you cash out before the plane flies off the screen. Cash out in time and your stake is multiplied by the number on the curve. Leave it a beat too long and the plane’s gone — and so is your bet. That’s the whole game. Everything else is nerve.
It’s one of the most-played games in South Africa for a reason: it’s fast, it’s tense, and you’re in control of the one decision that matters — when to bank it. You’ll find it on Scorebet, running 24/7.
How a round actually works
Every round is the same three beats:
- Place your bet in the seconds before the round starts (say R20).
- The plane takes off and the multiplier rises — 1.10x, 1.50x, 2.30x, climbing.
- You tap cash out. Your return is stake × the multiplier at that instant. Don’t tap in time and the plane “flies away” at a random point, and the bet is lost.
The catch that gets people: the plane can fly away at 1.00x — instantly, before you’ve banked a cent — or it can run to 100x while you sit there frozen. You never know which round you’re in. The number you cash at is the only thing you control.
The cash-out is the whole skill
There is no reading the plane, no pattern in the last ten rounds, no “it’s due” — each round is independent (more on that in is Aviator rigged). So the skill isn’t prediction. It’s discipline on the cash-out.
Two tools make that easier:
- Two bets per round. You can run two stakes at once — bank one early to lock a small profit, let the second ride for a bigger one. It’s how most regulars take the edge off the greed.
- Auto cash-out. Set a target (say 1.80x) and the game banks it for you automatically the moment the curve hits it — taking your slow thumb and your nerves out of the equation.
A worked example, in rand
You stake R50 and set auto cash-out at 2.00x. Three outcomes:
| The plane flies at | What happens | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 1.40x | below your target — you don’t cash | −R50 |
| 2.00x or higher | auto-banks at 2.00x | R100 (R50 profit) |
| 50x | you still banked at 2.00x | R100 — the big one got away |
That last row is the trade every Aviator player makes: a lower target wins more often but caps your upside. Chase the 50x and you’ll watch your stake leave far more often than it lands.
What the odds really are
Aviator’s published RTP is around 97% — meaning that, modelled over a huge number of rounds, it returns about R97 for every R100 staked. The other ~3% is the house edge, and it’s there on every round whether you win or lose. High multipliers are deliberately rare; the long tail of big wins is paid for by all the rounds that crash early. We break the maths down honestly in Aviator RTP and odds. None of this means you can’t win tonight — variance is real — it means the game isn’t a money-printer, and anyone selling you a “system” is selling noise. See Aviator strategy: truths and myths.
Will Aviator actually pay out?
Yes — and it’s worth knowing why you can trust it. Aviator uses a provably fair system: each round’s result is generated before the round starts and can be checked afterward, so the outcome can’t be tweaked once you’ve bet. At Scorebet the game settles instantly to your wallet, and withdrawals run on the same local rails as the rest of the site — Instant EFT, cards, e-wallets — processed quickly once your account is FICA-verified. The fairness is in the game; the payout speed is in the operator. Both check out here. The honest caveat is the only one that matters: the house edge is real, so bank wins when you get them.
How to play it without giving it back
The people who keep Aviator fun do four boring things:
- Set a budget before you start and treat it as the cost of the entertainment, not a float to grow.
- Use auto cash-out at a realistic target so a frozen thumb or a greedy moment doesn’t cost you a banked win.
- Bank the win and stop — the fastest way to lose an Aviator session is to keep feeding a good run back in.
- Never chase. A crash isn’t “owed” a comeback; the next round doesn’t know the last one happened.
Aviator is pure timing and nerve, and that’s the appeal — just keep it on a budget you’d be fine losing. When you’re ready, it’s live 24/7 at Scorebet.
Frequently asked
How do you win at Aviator?
You cash out before the plane flies away. Your bet is multiplied by whatever the curve has reached when you tap cash-out — so a R20 bet cashed at 2.00x returns R40. Wait too long and the plane leaves with your stake. There is no way to know in advance where it stops.
What is a good multiplier to cash out at in Aviator?
There's no magic number. Lower targets (around 1.5x–2x) hit far more often but win less; high multipliers pay big but rarely land. A steady auto cash-out around 1.5x–2x is how most disciplined players grind, accepting the occasional big one will get away.
Can you really make money on Aviator?
You can win on any single session, but the game keeps a house edge (the published RTP is about 97%), so over enough rounds the maths favours the house. Treat it as paid entertainment with a budget, not an income.
Can other players see my bets while a round is running?
Yes — the live bet list and the all-players total are shown to everyone, and you'll see the big cash-outs land in real time as the curve climbs. It feels like a shared table, but every result comes from the same single round outcome, so watching someone else bank at 8x tells you nothing about where your own plane will fly — you're all riding one number.
Why do two bets per round let you play more aggressively?
Splitting your stake across two bets lets one cash out low to recover most of the round's cost while the second rides for a bigger multiplier, so a single early bank softens the loss when the high bet flies away. It doesn't change the house edge — it just smooths the swings, which is why most regulars use it rather than staking everything on one nervy tap.