HOW TO PLAY
Your points climb every second. A Cardano block ends the round. Cash out before it lands, or lose them.
1THE ROUND STARTS
Everyone joins the same round and starts together. Rounds run one after another, with a short break between them.
2YOUR POINTS CLIMB
Points are the seconds squared. Ten seconds is 100 points. Twenty seconds is 400. Forty seconds is 1,600. The longer you stay in, the faster they climb, and the more you have to lose.
3CASH OUT TO BANK THEM
Press CASH OUT and your score freezes. It does not count straight away: your press is exposed for the rest of the current second and all of the next one. If a block lands in that gap, you bank nothing.
4A BLOCK ENDS THE ROUND
The round ends the moment the next block is minted on Cardano. Anyone still in the round when it lands scores nothing for that round.
5BLOCKS COME AT RANDOM
A block arrives about every twenty seconds on average. Only on average. Sometimes three come in ten seconds. Sometimes nothing comes for two minutes.
6A LONG GAP MEANS NOTHING
The chain has no memory. However long the wait has been, the chance a block lands in the next second is exactly the same. A quiet two minutes does not mean one is "due".
Waiting longer never improves your odds. It only raises the points you stand to lose. That is the whole game.
7A REAL ROUND, SECOND BY SECOND
Falcon1 cashed out at thirty seconds and banked nine hundred. The block landed at thirty‑eight. Anyone holding on for more scored nothing.
8THE LEADERBOARD AND THE POT
Every round you bank adds to your total for the epoch. The highest total when the epoch ends wins the pot. You get thirty rounds per epoch.
9WINNING: YOU MUST CLAIM
When the epoch ends the leaderboard freezes. If you are top, you have fifteen minutes to paste a Cardano address on the page and claim. That is the only thing asked of you.
Nobody is notified. There is no email and no message, because nothing about you is collected. If you are near the top, be on the page when the countdown runs out. Miss it and the pot rolls over to the next epoch.
10YOUR NAME AND YOUR KEY
You pick a name and get a one‑time key. Both are saved in this browser. The key is the only proof the name is yours, and the only way to claim a prize.
Copy it somewhere safe. Clear your browser data without it and the name, and anything it has won, is gone.
THREE CARDANO WORDS
- BLOCK
- A batch of transactions added to the Cardano chain. One block ends one round.
- SLOT
- One second of chain time. Each tick on the heartbeat bar is a slot.
- EPOCH
- Five days of chain time. Scores are totalled across an epoch, and the pot is won at the end of it.
The game reads the chain from our own Cardano node. Nothing about the timing comes from us.