Norsk Tipping faces 15 November deadline to enforce KongKasino's mandatory break
The state-owned operator has until Sunday 15 November to make sure KongKasino players stop for the compulsory break after an hour, or face a daily fine of NOK 15,000.
An order with a long fuse
Norway's gambling and foundations regulator, Lotteri- og stiftelsestilsynet (Lottstift), ordered Norsk Tipping on 11 June to make sure players on its online casino KongKasino get the mandatory break after an hour of play. The state-owned operator was given until Sunday 15 November 2026. Unless Lottstift has documentation by then that the fault is fixed, a coercive fine of NOK 15,000 a day runs from Monday 16 November until the fix is documented. In Norway, spillelisens.com first reported the deadline.
Almost two hours without a stop
Section 33 of the Norwegian gambling regulations requires a break of at least 15 minutes after one hour of play on KongKasino. On 28 August 2025 a customer played for almost two hours without being stopped. When the hour ran out, the player was in a 43-minute feature round of the game Jackpot 6000, a so-called restake. The system did not register transactions and play inside such a round as active play, so it counted the round as the break.
Two games with a supermeter feature that could trigger the same fault were withdrawn on 20 October.
Feature rounds count as play
Norsk Tipping argued that such rounds differ in principle from ordinary play, that "one hour of play" is not defined, and that a comparison with its eFlax Christmas calendar was not apt. Lottstift rejected all three points and read the rule by the plain meaning of its words: active play counts, and play in a feature round is active play.
Nor can a break be measured only by when the next deposit is made, the regulator said. It had been told that in some games players can still win new spins that keep them going well past the hour. In its own test play it also saw that some KongKasino games let players raise the stake to improve their chance of triggering special features.
What has to be in place by 15 November
To avoid the fine, Norsk Tipping must put into practice the solution in its follow-up plan of 30 April and send the Ministry of Culture and Equality a formal proposal to amend the regulations, both by the deadline.
Lottstift gave reasons for the generous timetable. Norsk Tipping has faced demanding internal processes since earlier serious errors with Eurojackpot and the Supertrekning draw, and record traffic was expected during the 2026 football World Cup. Its test play found no feature round that broke the rule, and long rounds are rare. Even so, it judged that the operator had taken disproportionately long, from the customer's report on 28 August to a proposed solution on 2 March.
A separate 2026 inspection of Norsk Tipping's casino games found one deviation, concerning the maximum speed of play on KongKasino.
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