How this guide checks and measures
This page explains who writes the guide, where its facts come from, and how each distance is worked out.
It also says plainly what the guide leaves out, and why. If a number elsewhere on the site looks odd, the answer is probably here.
Who writes this guide
Maren Lacroix is a pen name. Behind it sits a small editorial team that writes and checks every page. The guide is independent: it takes no bets, holds no accounts and runs no casino.
The idea came from a simple Winnipeg problem. A room that sits close to one part of the city can be a fair trip from another, and winter makes every trip feel longer. So the guide asks one question first: where are you starting from? Ten areas and three rooms make up the whole map.
Where the facts come from
Every fact on this guide starts on a page someone else runs. The sources are the venues' own pages and Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries. The Liquor, Gaming and Cannabis Authority of Manitoba (LGCA) and a few reference pages fill the gaps. Each fact is stored with its source and the date it was checked, which for this round was October 2026.
When two pages disagree, the guide leaves the value out rather than pick a side. That covers the opening hours of Club Regent, McPhillips Station and South Beach. It also covers the South Beach slot count, one McPhillips postal code and some phone numbers. For hours, each venue's own site is the place to look.
One gaming centre is missing on purpose. Its status could not be confirmed, so it stays off the map.
How the compass and table work
The table and the compass use the same numbers. Each casino has a coordinate, and each of the ten areas has an approximate centre point, not a street address. Your browser works out the great-circle straight line between them and rounds it to whole kilometres. These are not road distances and say nothing about drive time.
On the compass, the scale is stretched so a nearby room and a far one both fit on the dial. The direction, though, is true: each bearing points the way the room actually lies. Read the compass for direction and the table for kilometres.