Rewards & rules
What a place is worth.
One monthly table, reset on the first of each month, with the top 50 places sharing the reward pool. This page is how that share is worked out. It is not a schedule and it is not an offer — see the note at the bottom, which is the most important part.
How the pool is shared
Every figure below is a share of the pool, not of anything else. The 6 bands cover every paid place from 1st to 50th and add up to the whole pool exactly.
| Place | Places | Each | Band total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1 | 20% | 20% |
| 2nd | 1 | 12% | 12% |
| 3rd | 1 | 8% | 8% |
| 4th–5th | 2 | 5% | 10% |
| 6th–10th | 5 | 2% | 10% |
| 11th–50th | 40 | 1% | 40% |
The rules, as they stand
- The table resets every month. Nobody is ever permanently out of the running, and a good month counts for exactly one month.
- Only Competitive results count. Free Play is the same game and always open to everyone with no account, and it earns no points and no rank.
- A free account is the whole entry requirement. There is nothing to buy, and nothing that can be bought improves a position on the table.
- Ties break on time. Two players on equal points are separated by total completion time, lower first.
- Results are verified on the server.A finished game is re-run against the day’s own puzzle before it scores, so a result the browser reports but cannot prove does not count.
What this page is not
It is not an offer. The pool is not funded, and no money has ever been paid to anyone. The split above describes how a pool would be shared, not a pool that exists. Nothing on this site should be read as a promise of payment.
It is not the binding document either. The Terms are, and they are where the full rules, the eligibility conditions and the payout mechanics are set out. Where the two differ, the Terms are what counts.
What is true today: six games, free, no download, no account.