Casino Guru teams up with The Digital Wellness Center to expand acces to RG tool Droodles

Casino Guru has announced a new collaboration with the Digital Wellness Center (DWC), which will enable its forum community to test the mental health benefits via Droodles, DWC's novel cognitive microbreak tool. The initiative aligns with Casino Guru's commitment to exploring new methods for promoting safer gambling practices and encouraging positive habit formation among its users.

Digital Wellness Center describes itself as the world's only wellness company dedicated to gamers. DWC's strategy focuses on reducing problem gambling before it becomes a problem.

According to Casino Guru, the introduction of Droodles represents a unique opportunity for both parties "to validate and refine wellness innovation within a real-world and highly engaging environment."

Droodles are described as short and interactive visual tasks or microbreaks that have a cognitively restorative manner and require low effort in a press release. Leveraging principles of neuroaesthetics and behavioral science, the goal of such microbreaks is to stimulate light mental activity that helps with relaxation.

The science behind microbreaks
                    

Microbreaks or intentional short pauses taken throughout the day help a person reset their brain by reducing cognitive fatigue and restoring focus. Such short breaks enable the mind to shift from intense concentration and have the added benefit of improving creativity, decision-making, and memory retention, and are proven to boost productivity.
                    
When a person gambles for an extended period, they may experience a "fog" that settles in their prefrontal cortex. Unless this pattern is interrupted, the player in question may make irrational decisions about their gambling.

With the help of microbreaks, players can easily "reset" their brains, allowing them to interrupt the continuous cognitive load and lower emotional intensity. Subsequently, this reduces the risk of impulsive decision-making and the chance of addictive behaviors such as chasing losses.

From a scientific point of view, the short pauses enable the player to better regulate dopamine, which contributes to better self-control and reduces the risk of gambling-related harm. 

The creative mini-puzzle game seeks to normalize breaks from gambling. Casino Guru and DWC's new initiative focuses on the users' creativity and encourages them to reset their brains.

Droodles aims to provide an innovative approach that seeks to normalize pauses between gambling games in a way that can be completely refreshing. Unlike responsible gambling tools that are often related to restrictions and limits, the thought-provoking mini-puzzle games are fun and at the same time, relaxing.
                    
Šimon Vincze, Casino Guru's Head of Sustainable & Safer Gambling, said: "Introducing DWC's microbreaks to the Casino Guru community is a brilliant opportunity to explore measures to reduce gambling-related harm beyond traditional responsible gambling principles and tools."
                    
Dr. Mary Donohue, CEO and Founder of The Digital Wellness Center, said about the new collaboration: “At DWC, we believe play should feel good—and with Casino Guru’s brilliant team, we’ve built a playful tool with a powerful purpose. Droodles help players reset before risky decisions begin, making wellness a natural part of the game. Great clients create great solutions—because they know people want to feel good and have fun doing it."

Droodles is now available to the Casino Guru forum community members. More details regarding the competition available for the Casino Guru forum community can be found here.