GAMBLERS ANONYMOUS
A peer-led fellowship for people who want to stop. Meetings are free, anonymous, and run worldwide; the website lists local meetings and online options.
VISIT WEBSITE ›Tools, organisations, and a short self-check for visitors who want to step away from the relay for a while — or for good. The Power Down link is always available at the top of every page; this page is the long version.
CascadeLights is a free social pixel grid for adults aged 18 and over. The relay is built to be left at any time, and this page is the long version of the same idea: a list of organisations to talk to, a self-check, and a short standard for what we do and do not do in the studio.
A social game is a reading-only experience for adults: no payments in, no transactions out, no real-money mechanics. CascadeLights does not maintain customer accounts holding value; the score panel is decorative furniture. Closing the tab clears the score; the relay does not save anything between visits.
The visual format of a three-by-three pixel grid resembles real-money formats that minors should not interact with at all. The relay is published exclusively for adults aged eighteen and over. The age gate is a real boundary, not a checkbox to tap past, and we keep it on every page.
CascadeLights is paced like a coffee. The full loop — tap, watch the glyphs, glance at the panel, tap again — takes about two seconds, and a fifteen-minute cup fits twenty rounds. If the relay is moving faster than that on your end, the page is the wrong shape for the moment.
Closing the tab is the right thing to do whenever the relay stops feeling like a quiet break. The relay is built so that closing the tab clears the score panel and dismisses the page entirely; the next visit starts fresh. There is no streak counter, no comeback prompt, no anniversary reminder, and no daily-login loop.
Any of these is a reason to close the tab and read the rest of this page. None of them is a sign of failure; they are signs that the relay is the wrong page for now.
If the honest answer to any of these is “yes”, the next section is for you.
Step one: close the tab. The relay does not need any input from you to clear; closing is enough. Step two: read the “Where to find help” section below and pick one of the listed organisations to write to. Step three: take a breath. None of the organisations below will pressure you into anything; they exist to listen first.
If you are in immediate distress in Ontario, ConnexOntario runs a free, confidential helpline twenty-four hours a day at 1-866-531-2600. The line is free of charge and confidential. Outside Ontario, every Canadian province operates an equivalent line; your provincial health authority can connect you in minutes.
The same organisations below have resources for friends, family, and partners of someone whose relationship with real-money formats has become difficult. Gamblers Anonymous in particular runs a Gam-Anon programme for family members. The conversation does not have to start with a phone call; many of the organisations have written guides on how to open it gently.
The relay has no payment mechanism. The relay has no account system. The relay has no leaderboard. The relay has no daily-login loop, no streak counter, no anniversary reminder, no comeback prompt, no behavioural retargeting. The relay sits quietly until a hand picks it up, and quietly when the hand leaves.
The age gate is on every page and is a real boundary. The score panel is decorative and clears on every tab close. The cookie banner asks for explicit consent and remembers the answer for one hundred and eighty days — long enough that the visitor is not asked again on every visit, short enough that the consent is fresh.
The organisations below are the ones we trust on this. They are the same organisations we list in the footer of every page on the relay, but here on the Power Down page we list them in full with a one-line description of what each does. Pick the one that feels like the right shape for the conversation you want to have.
A peer-led fellowship for people who want to stop. Meetings are free, anonymous, and run worldwide; the website lists local meetings and online options.
VISIT WEBSITE ›A Canadian non-profit that researches problem gambling and runs prevention programmes across the country. Their RG Check programme accredits venues and operators.
VISIT WEBSITE ›An international support service from GamCare offering free online counselling, a forum, and live chat in multiple languages. Suitable for visitors outside Canada and the UK.
VISIT WEBSITE ›If the relay itself is the part that feels off — the visual format, the wording on a particular page, a glyph that brings up a memory you would rather not revisit — write to [email protected]. The inbox is read by Ana from the studio, usually within a working day. We will not push back on the feedback. We may take it out of the relay entirely if the studio agrees.
Last updated: 2026-05-05.