The UK Casino Sign-Up Offers With No Wagering Attached

Updated September 2026

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A sign-up offer at a UK online casino is, in plain British usage, exactly the same thing as a welcome offer or a welcome bonus. The three labels are interchangeable in casino marketing copy and in the small print. What sits underneath the label is always the same product: a bundle of free spins, a matched deposit, or both, credited when a new account meets a stated trigger, almost always a £10 deposit and an equal stake on a named slot.

Data current as of 9 September 2026, checked against the UK Gambling Commission public register.

Every welcome offer in the licensed UK market carries four moving parts. Wagering, the multiplier the operator attaches to winnings before they become cash, is the one players notice most. The cap is the ceiling on what the offer will ever pay out, a number that survives even where wagering does not. Validity is the clock that starts when the spins land, usually 24 to 72 hours in this set. Game restriction is the fourth: nearly every welcome offer in the UK runs on slots, and the few that run on anything else say so explicitly. The offer name decides nothing. The four terms decide what the offer is actually worth, and the page that follows ranks the ten best-known UK sign-up offers by what those four terms say.

The page also works through a calculation a sharp-eyed reader can re-check, and ends with a question block. Every operator named is licensed by the UK Gambling Commission and is reviewed for what the headline offer does and does not include, not as a recommendation to play.

The welcome bonus behind every UK sign-up offer

Three labels, one product: the naming confusion. The British casino market uses “sign-up offer”, “welcome offer” and “welcome bonus” interchangeably, and a quick search turns up pages that swap between the three in a single paragraph. A reader looking for a “sign-up offer” and a reader looking for a “welcome bonus” are looking at the same thing on the same operator’s site. “Keep what you win” is the consumer-friendly label for the version where winnings land as withdrawable cash with no playthrough attached.

The “best” label, where it appears in marketing, sits on the offer with the terms that cost the player the least once the bonus is in the account. In a market where the UKGC has capped bonus wagering at 10x since 19 January 2026, that means offers with zero wagering first, then those with 10x, then by the size of the cap, then by how long the player has to use the spins. Pages that rank by headline spin count alone, which most of the affiliate listicles on the first page of search results do, miss the calculation a careful reader actually needs.

From advert to balance: the claim sequence

• Register and verify: create the account, then complete KYC, the UKGC’s identity and age check, before any real-money play.
• Trigger the offer: deposit at least £10 and stake it on a named slot, or claim a no-deposit tranche on registration.
• Receive the spins: free spins, the bonus, or both credit to the account once the trigger clears.
• Play and withdraw: winnings pass through the offer’s own terms, which may mean a cap, a clock, or a wagering multiplier, before they are withdrawable.

The point of the sequence is that nothing about it is hidden, and the step a reader most often skips is the first. UKGC rules require identity verification before play, not at withdrawal, so the check happens earlier than many new players expect.

The app shows the same deal on a phone

Every operator in this ranking runs the same welcome offer in-app that it shows on desktop. The mobile casino app is a convenience route, not a different deal. Spins credit, terms apply and withdrawals route through the same cashier. If an app-exclusive bonus appears in a push notification, treat it as a separate offer, not as an upgrade on the welcome bundle; the wagering, cap and validity on the app-only version need to be checked against the published terms, not assumed to match.

New casinos still play by the same rules

A brand new to the UK market must hold a UKGC licence from the day it opens to British players, exactly like every other operator in this set. A new-casino welcome offer still carries wagering, a cap, a validity window and a game restriction, and the four checks below apply to it without modification. Newness is a marketing story, not a regulatory edge: the licence number is the test, and it is as new on day one as on day one thousand.

Fast sign-up and VIP tiers are filters, not bonuses

“Fast sign-up” describes how quickly the registration form lets an account through, not the value of the welcome bundle once it lands. A two-minute registration on a 10x-wagering offer is still a 10x-wagering offer. VIP tiers sit separately from the welcome offer, kick in after the new-player period and earn their value over time rather than as a single claim. A casino that markets its fast sign-up as a bonus reason is selling the door, not the room inside.

What “no wagering” really buys you in 2026

“No wagering” means one thing precisely: the winnings from the bonus land in the withdrawable cash balance and are not subject to a playthrough multiplier. Under the old UK market, where 35x to 65x wagering was the norm on matched deposits, a £10 win on a free spin was the first 10p of a £350 to £650 stake-through before any of it became cash. The 10x cap that came into force on 19 January 2026, under UKGC LCCP Condition 5.1.1, shrank the worst case to £100 of stake-through per £10 of bonus. The UKGC’s own line on the change, that it “decreases the likelihood of harm, reduces complexity, and improves transparency while maintaining consumer choice”, is the regulator’s own acknowledgement that the old system was neither simple nor transparent. With the cap in place, the real choice for a new player is between zero wagering and the new 10x ceiling, and the gap between the two is narrower than the marketing of “no wagering” suggests.

Zero wagering defined — and its remaining limits

Zero wagering means winnings are withdrawable cash from the moment they land. It does not mean the offer has no other conditions. Caps still apply, expiries still run, and the game is still usually a single named slot. PlayOJO’s 50 spins on Big Bass Bonanza, where winnings are paid as cash with no maximum cashout cap, is the cleanest example in the set. At the other end, the same zero-wagering principle sits inside a £30 winnings cap and a 72-hour expiry, as William Hill Vegas runs on its 200 Big Bass Splash spins, and the “no wagering” label does nothing to lift either ceiling.

No-deposit spins: free to claim, not always to withdraw

No-deposit spins need no card at the point of registration, but the account still has to clear KYC before any withdrawal, and a no-deposit bonus can carry a deposit requirement before cashout. Sky Vegas opens the account with 50 wager-free spins; Betfair adds 50; Paddy Power adds 60 with a £500 winnings ceiling. The marketing frame, “free spins no deposit”, hides two conditions a reader needs to see: the KYC check still happens, and a small deposit may be needed to release any winnings.

The 10p per-spin engine under every headline

A free spin in the current UK welcome market is almost always a 10p spin. MrQ’s Big Bass Splash spins and bet365’s daily drops both run at 10p each, and the wider market has converged on the same number. A 200-spin offer at 10p per spin is £20 of spin value on the reels; a 500-spin offer is £50. The headline figure sounds bigger, but the real-world ceiling on what those spins can return is set by the slot’s own RTP, the per-spin stake, the game’s max win and the offer’s cap.

Where the cost hides once wagering is gone

With the wagering multiplier removed, the cost of a no-wagering offer moves to four other places. A winning cap, the £500 ceiling on Paddy Power’s no-deposit spins and the £30 ceiling on William Hill’s Big Bass Splash spins, sets a hard maximum on what the offer can pay. Short validity, 24 to 72 hours in this set, makes the bonus disappear if the player does not return in time. A slots-only restriction rules out live casino play. The 10p per-spin value caps the ceiling of any single hit.

No wagering and no deposit: where the two conditions meet

Three offers in the set carry no-deposit tranches that are also wager-free: Sky Vegas at 50, Betfair at 50 and Paddy Power at 60. The larger spin counts, the 200-spin and 500-spin hauls, all sit behind a £10 deposit and stake. The fully free offer is a small, no-strings taster, not a full welcome package. A player who wants the larger haul pays the £10 trigger and clears KYC; a player who wants zero risk plays the no-deposit tranche and accepts the smaller spin count and the cap.

What the cap costs the player: a worked estimate

The cheapest 10x-wagering offer in the set is Casumo’s 100% match up to £100, paired with the 96.71% RTP on Big Bass Bonanza, the slot the page’s own featured zero-wagering offers run on. The required turnover is the £100 bonus times the 10x wagering multiple, which is £1,000 of stake-through. The expected loss on that £1,000 of play, at 96.71% RTP, is roughly £33, the difference between turnover and what the slot returns on average. That £33 is the bonus’s real cost to a player who claims the maximum, wagered through to completion. It is an estimate, an average over many spins under the stated assumptions, and a single session can land well above or well below it. The estimate puts a number on what “10x wagering” actually means once a real slot’s house edge is taken into account: not the £1,000 of stake-through, which is what the marketing talks about, but the smaller expected loss the stake-through produces.

Which games actually carry a sign-up offer — and which never do

Almost every UK sign-up spin in 2026 lands on a slot. The featured operators in this set attach their spins to Big Bass Bonanza, Big Bass Splash, Book of Dead, or to a rotating list of Pragmatic Play and Playtech titles. Live casino sign-up offers barely exist in the UK market and none of the ten featured operators runs a welcome bundle for live tables, which is a gap in the affiliate listicles on the first page of search results as much as it is in the offers themselves. A reader comparing welcome offers by game type will find the slots shelf well-stocked and the live shelf almost empty.

Slots: the default home of every free spin

Free spins target slot titles by default, and the slots-only restriction is written into the small print of every featured offer in this set. The titles that carry the spins are deliberately familiar: Big Bass Bonanza and Big Bass Splash for most of the set, Book of Dead on a rotating list, and various Pragmatic Play releases on the long tail. The choice of slot is rarely the player’s; the operator attaches the offer to a specific game and the bonus has to be played there.

Zero-wagering slot offers and the titles that pay in full

PlayOJO and MrQ both attach their zero-wagering spins to Big Bass titles, and the zero-wagering condition is the reason those offers pay in full. Where wagering is the mechanism, the house edge is doubled by the playthrough the player has to clear on top of the spin’s own RTP. With wagering removed, the only edge is the slot’s, which is 3.29% on Big Bass Bonanza and the same 3.29% on Big Bass Splash at the published RTPs. The maths is the same as a cash spin; the difference is the marketing frame.

Big Bass, Book of Dead and the spin-titled offers

The three slot titles that carry the featured offers are all high-volatility, all near-97% RTP, and all run on a 5×3 grid with 10 paylines. The differences are in the max win: Big Bass Bonanza tops out at 2,100x stake, the two sequels stretch to 5,000x. A high-volatility slot at 5,000x max win is a long-tail game: most sessions return less than stake, and a small share of sessions return the headline multiple. A 2,100x ceiling on Bonanza is closer, and the variance between the two titles is one of the few things a player can change within the same offer family.

Live dealer tables: the nearly empty shelf

Live dealer tables sit outside the featured welcome offers in this set. No-wagering spins are slots-only by the offers’ own terms, and matched-deposit offers with live game contribution are not part of the welcome bundles named here. A player who wants to play live tables with a bonus has to look beyond the welcome shelf, at reload offers or game-specific promotions, and the ten operators named on this page do not run them as part of the sign-up bundle.

The ten featured casinos, ranked by their welcome deals

The ten operators below are all UKGC-licensed, and the ranking orders them by wagering first (zero over 10x), then by offer size, then by how generous the cap and validity windows are. The qualifying trigger across the whole set is a £10 deposit and an equal stake on a named slot, with the exception of the no-deposit tranches at Sky Vegas, Betfair and Paddy Power, where the trigger is registration alone. Six of the ten offers are genuinely zero-wagering; four still attach 10x.

PlayOJO — zero wagering and no cashout cap

PlayOJO is the cleanest zero-wagering offer in the set. A £10 deposit triggers 50 spins on Big Bass Bonanza, the slot the rest of the market’s Big Bass spins attach to as well, and the RTP is 96.71% on the high-volatility title. Every winning spin lands as withdrawable cash with no maximum cashout cap, and there is no multiplier between the slot and the cashier. The wagering is the headline and the cap is the absence of a cap, which is rare enough in this set to be worth saying plainly. It sets the standard for simplicity in a market that usually adds layers.

MrQ — a 200-spin haul for a tenner

MrQ’s offer is the volume leader in the deposit-triggered half of the set. A £10 deposit or spend earns up to 200 spins on Big Bass Splash at 10p each, the same 96.71% RTP as the Bonanza original, with a max win ceiling five times higher at 5,000x stake. Wagering is zero, the spin value is fixed, and the spin count is the largest in the deposit-triggered group. For a player who measures an offer in spins rather than in headline cash, MrQ is the highest-count zero-wagering bundle on the page.

Sky Vegas — spins before any deposit

Sky Vegas is the strongest no-deposit tranche in the set. The 50 wager-free spins land on registration, before any deposit, and a further 200 spins credit on a £10 deposit and stake, all under the same zero-wagering terms. Validity runs 7 days from credit and no cap is stated. Sky Vegas operates under UKGC licence 65519, held by Bonne Terre Limited, part of the Flutter Entertainment group, and is one of three Flutter group brands in the ranking. It is the most flexible choice for players who want a no-deposit taster without committing to a deposit until they are ready.

bet365 Games — five hundred spins over ten days

bet365 runs the biggest spin count on the page, drip-fed. A £10 lifetime deposit triggers up to 500 spins over 10 days, delivered as 24-hour daily drops, with 10p per spin and zero wagering on winnings. The drip structure is a deliberate choice: 50 spins a day for 10 days is more return-time per session, but a smaller hit on any given day, than a 500-spin lump. The 20-day total window gives breathing room to log in, but each daily drop expires 24 hours after it lands, which is a sharper clock than the headline 10 days suggests. The drip-feed mechanic rewards consistency, but players who miss a daily login should look elsewhere for a single-drop alternative.

Betfair Casino — half its spins need no deposit

Betfair splits the difference between no-deposit and deposit-triggered. 50 spins credit on registration with no wagering, and 50 more arrive on a £10 deposit and spend, also with no wagering. The 10p per-spin value is standard, and 72-hour expiry from credit applies to both tranches. The 100-spin total is smaller than MrQ or Sky Vegas, and the deposit half is half the size, but the no-deposit half is in line with the rest of the no-deposit set. Its balanced split between deposit-free and deposit-triggered spins makes it an excellent middle-ground offer for new account holders.

Paddy Power Games — sixty spins, £500 ceiling

Paddy Power’s offer is the only no-deposit tranche in the set that prints its cap on the box. 60 no-deposit spins plus 200 deposit spins on a £10 stake, all no-wagering, with winnings capped at £500. The 24-hour clock on the free spins is the tightest in the set. Paddy Power operates under the same Flutter group UKGC licence as Sky Vegas and Betfair. The transparent £500 winnings cap is a welcome clarity, provided the player is comfortable with the 24-hour turnaround.

William Hill Vegas — two hundred spins with 10x attached

William Hill Vegas is the brand-name 10x offer in the ranking, and the contrast with the zero-wagering half of the set is the point. 200 spins on Big Bass Splash for a £10 deposit and a £10 stake, at 10p per spin, with 10x wagering on winnings, a £30 cashout cap and 72-hour expiry. The £30 cap is the tightest in the page and the one number that decides whether the offer is worth claiming at all: a player who lands the maximum 5,000x Big Bass Splash multiplier would normally walk away with thousands on a zero-wagering offer, and here would walk away with £30. William Hill Vegas operates under the WHG International / 888 Holdings group licence. The £30 cap acts as a sharp reminder that brand familiarity does not always equal better bonus value.

LeoVegas — fifty spins on a 72-hour clock

LeoVegas is the second 10x offer in the set, simpler than William Hill. 50 spins on Big Bass Splash at 10p each, 10x wagering on winnings, 72-hour expiry. No cap is stated in the small print, which puts the ceiling at the slot’s own max win rather than at an operator cap. LeoVegas operates under UKGC licence 39198, held by LeoVegas Gaming plc, now part of MGM Resorts. Those seeking a 10x bonus without a restrictive cashout ceiling will find this a straightforward option, although it lacks the zero-wagering flexibility found elsewhere on the shelf.

Casumo — a match bonus that still wagers 10x

Casumo is the only matched-deposit headline in the set, and the only one with a five-figure upper bound on the bonus. 100% match up to £100 plus 50 free spins, with 10x wagering on the bonus and on the spins’ winnings, on a £10 minimum deposit. The matched bonus is the largest cash amount in the ranking, and the 10x wagering is the cost of taking it. The page’s worked estimate above is built on this offer: a £100 bonus at 10x wagering, played through at 96.71% RTP, costs roughly £33 in expected loss, the arithmetic the marketing leaves out. Casumo operates as a white-label under SkillOnNet’s UKGC licence 39326, the same licence number that backs PlayOJO. It remains the only option here for a cash-match welcome bonus, assuming the player accepts the 10x wagering trade-off.

888casino — a £100 match capped at £100

888casino runs the same 100% match up to £100 headline as Casumo, with 100 free spins on selected Pragmatic Play slots attached, 10x wagering on the bonus funds, a £100 cashout cap and a 7-day wagering window. The £100 cap on cashout is the operator’s own ceiling on what the offer will pay, and the 7-day window is the clock on the wagering. 888casino operates under UKGC licence 39028, held by 888 UK Limited, the same group that holds the William Hill Vegas licence. For a player comparing the two matched-deposit offers in the set, the choice is between 50 spins and no cashout cap (Casumo) and 100 spins and a £100 cap (888), and the answer depends on whether the cap or the spin count matters more to the player.

How the UK regulator caps the bonus market

The UK Gambling Commission is the sole regulator for online gambling in Great Britain, which does not include Northern Ireland, where separate legislation applies. The Commission’s LCCP Conditions and the Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 set the statutory caps that the entire licensed bonus market runs under. The 10x wagering cap on bonuses, the £5 and £2 slot stake limits and the 40% Remote Gaming Duty are the three numbers that shape what every welcome offer in this set looks like.

The UKGC whitelist every legal operator must clear

A UKGC remote operating licence is mandatory for any operator serving UK players, with no grey zone and no carve-out for offshore brands. The licence number is checkable on the Commission’s public register, and every featured operator on this page holds a numbered licence. Sky Vegas runs under 65519 (Bonne Terre Limited, Flutter). PlayOJO and Casumo sit under 39326 (SkillOnNet Ltd). MrQ holds 60629 (Tek Fox Ltd). bet365 holds 55149 (Hillside (UK Gaming) ENC). LeoVegas holds 39198 (LeoVegas Gaming plc, MGM Resorts). 888casino and William Hill Vegas run under the WHG International / 888 Holdings group licence, with 888 UK Limited at 39028. Betfair and Paddy Power share the Flutter Entertainment group UKGC licence. The Commission enforces KYC at the point of play, not at withdrawal, and does not permit cryptocurrency deposits under a UKGC licence, which closes the anonymous-play route at the cashier as well as at the bonus claim.

GamStop: one switch that blocks every licensed site

GamStop is the national online self-exclusion scheme, and every UKGC-licensed operator must participate. A single registration on GamStop excludes the player from every UKGC-licensed site at once, for the period chosen at sign-up, which is the reason the “offshore-no-local-protection” caveat exists for any operator outside the licence net. Operators must also offer deposit limits, loss limits (rebranded “stake limits” in the 2026 RTS 12B changes), reality checks and time-outs on every account. The full safer-gambling toolkit is in the next section.

The 10x wagering cap of 2026 and what it changed

The 10x cap on bonus wagering took effect on 19 January 2026 under LCCP Condition 5.1.1, and the old 35x to 65x regime is gone. The UKGC’s own rationale, that the cap “decreases the likelihood of harm, reduces complexity, and improves transparency while maintaining consumer choice”, is the regulator’s acknowledgement that the previous system was neither simple nor transparent. For the welcome-offer market, the practical effect is that the entire spread now runs from zero to 10x, and the choice between “no wagering” and “10x” is the only choice the wagering line ever asks a player to make. The 40% Remote Gaming Duty, in force from 1 April 2026, may pressure operators to reduce future bonus generosity to protect margin, which is a forward-looking risk rather than a current condition, but the wagering cap itself is the structural change the 2026 market is built around.

Playing safely: the guardrails the UK builds into every account

Every UKGC-licensed account carries the same baseline of safer-gambling tools. Deposit limits and loss limits are mandatory operator offerings and are set in the account by the player. The terminology moved from “spend limits” to “stake limits” in the 2026 RTS 12B changes, a labelling change rather than a relaxation. Time-outs, reality checks, session timers and GamStop self-exclusion sit on top of the limits. The 2.7% PGSI 8+ prevalence in 2024 and the 2.4% figure for 2025 are the regulator’s own measurement of the population at risk, statistically stable across the two years, and the reason the licensed-market infrastructure is built the way it is.

Deposit and loss limits: the tools you can set today

Deposit limits and loss limits are set by the player in the account, take effect immediately, and cannot be raised without a cool-down period set by the operator. The 2026 RTS 12B changes rebranded “loss limits” as “stake limits” for clarity, but the underlying control is the same: a hard ceiling on what an account can lose in a stated period. Reality checks prompt the player at intervals during play, and time-outs block the account for a chosen period from 24 hours to six weeks. Every one of these controls is mandatory under UKGC licence conditions, and an operator that does not surface them in the account is non-compliant.

Self-exclusion and time-outs: the hard stop

GamStop is the off switch for every UKGC-licensed site at once, and registration is free at gamstop.co.uk. Time-outs are the lighter version, pausing a single account for a chosen period without affecting other accounts. The two controls sit alongside the deposit and loss limits rather than replacing them: a player who has set a deposit limit and then registered with GamStop has layered the controls rather than swapped them. A player who wants to lift a GamStop exclusion has to wait out the chosen period, which is the design.

GamCare and BeGambleAware: where to get help

The National Gambling Helpline, run by GamCare, is free and available 24/7 on 0808 8020 133 by call, online chat or WhatsApp. In January 2026, GamCare made 996 referrals to treatment and peer-based support services, a 48% increase on January 2025. The National Gambling Support Network, funded by GambleAware, treated 11,960 clients in Great Britain between April 2024 and March 2025, an 11% increase on the prior year. The service finder at gambleaware.org points to local treatment, counselling and peer support. These are the routes a player can take before, during or after a self-exclusion, and the 2.4% to 2.7% PGSI 8+ prevalence is the reason they exist as a public infrastructure.

How we chose and checked these ten casinos

The sources behind this ranking are the UK Gambling Commission’s published conditions and licence register, the GOV.UK gambling duties pages, the GamCare and GambleAware published statistics, and the Racing Post, Betsquare, Oddschecker and similar affiliate pages for the per-operator offer terms. Operators were checked against the UKGC public register for current licence status, and the licence numbers in the table are taken from the register. The ranking order was set by wagering first (zero over 10x), then by offer size in spins or matched cash, then by how generous the cap and validity windows are. No invented weightings were applied: the four terms that decide the offer’s value to the player are the four terms the ranking uses, in the order they appear in the table.

The checks that decide your next welcome offer

• Read the wagering first. Zero beats 10x, and the gap is the difference between cashing out the slot’s return and clearing a further stake-through on top of it.
• Read the cap and the validity. The £500 ceiling at Paddy Power and the £30 ceiling at William Hill Vegas are the difference between a generous-looking offer and an offer that pays the player what the small print says it will.
• Check the licence. The UKGC public register carries the licence number, the licence holder and the licence status, and the number in the table is the one to look up.
• Claim only after all four checks. A 10x offer with a £30 cap and a 72-hour clock is a different bet from a 10x offer with no cap and a 7-day window, and the difference is in the four terms, not in the headline.

Frequently asked questions

Can free spins pay out real withdrawable money if you never add a deposit?

No-deposit spins can pay out real money, but the account still has to clear KYC before any withdrawal, and a small deposit may be required to release the winnings depending on the operator. The spins themselves are free at the point of claim, and on the wager-free offers in this set the winnings are cash from the moment they land.

Do no-wagering sign-up offers work on live dealer games, or only slots?

Slots only. Every featured offer in this ranking runs on a named slot, and the slots-only restriction is in the small print. Live casino tables sit outside the welcome bundles named here, and matched-deposit offers with live game contribution are not part of the sign-up shelf.

What is one free spin actually worth in a UK sign-up offer?

A free spin in the current UK welcome market is almost always a 10p spin. A 200-spin offer is £20 of spin value on the reels; a 500-spin offer is £50. The actual return depends on the slot’s RTP, the per-spin stake and the offer’s cashout cap.

Are zero-wagering offers still worth choosing now the UKGC caps wagering at 10x?

Yes. The 10x cap is the new ceiling, not the new floor. Zero-wagering offers still pay winnings as cash with no playthrough, and the cap on bonus cost remains tighter at zero than at 10x. The spread has narrowed, but the better end of the spread is still the better end.

How do I confirm a UK casino holds a valid UKGC licence?

Look up the licence number on the UK Gambling Commission’s public register. The register carries the licence holder’s name, the licence number and the current status, and the numbers in this page’s table are the ones to check. A valid licence is the precondition for every other safer-gambling control named here.

What other restrictions do “no wagering” offers carry instead of wagering?

Cashout caps, validity windows, slots-only game restrictions and fixed 10p per-spin values. The wagering line is removed; the cap, clock and game list are not. A zero-wagering offer with a £30 cap and a 72-hour expiry is a different offer from a zero-wagering offer with no cap, and the cap is the term to read first.

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