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Leaderboards & Tickets

Earn Tickets on every completed run, with extra rewards for daily and weekly placements.

A leaderboard for each game

Each game has a separate leaderboard. Each wallet is ranked by its best single completed run in the selected period, shown alongside its username.

ViewPeriod
DailySince midnight in Europe/London
WeeklySince Monday at midnight in Europe/London
All timeAll saved results

Daily and weekly final positions award Tickets. All-time rankings are for your record and do not have a separate Ticket award.

Tickets for completed runs

Every eligible completed play earns five Tickets. A qualifying run must last at least two active seconds and achieve a positive score. Shorter runs earn no Tickets, leaderboard position or plot activity. Free and purchased plays earn Tickets under the same completion rules. The project owner’s designated wallet has an unlimited-play exception and also earns Tickets; owning a plot does not grant unlimited plays. Starting and abandoning a game does not earn Tickets.

For an immediate placement bonus, compare the completed run’s score with other wallets’ daily best scores in that game. This uses the score of that specific run, not the player’s previous best. Each qualifying play earns the relevant bonus again; it does not need to improve an earlier result.

A completed run can only be credited once. Retrying its submission does not create another Ticket award.

Top-20 Ticket schedule

The following bonuses are additional to the five participation Tickets. Harder games award more Tickets.

PositionBlockfallGas RunnerCircle of DeathDepeg
135404550
2–521242730
6–1014161820
11–2078910

Tickets accumulate permanently and are tied to the account that earned them. They cannot be transferred, sold or redeemed directly for USDC.

Daily and weekly final bonuses

Each daily leaderboard closes at midnight UK time. Its final positions receive the same bonus shown in the table after the period closes, in addition to Tickets already earned from individual plays. Weekly final positions receive three times the table amount. Weekly periods close at Monday midnight in Europe/London.

Daily and weekly awards use each wallet’s best single completed run during the period. If both periods close together, both bonuses apply. Final-placement bonuses do not include an additional five participation Tickets. Each period’s award is credited once.

Account, floor and game requests, together with a scheduled job, process completed periods. The period closes at midnight even if the balance update is processed later; see Daily settlement.

Ties

Equal scores share a position and receive the same full Ticket bonus. Later ranks skip the occupied positions: for example, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2, 6. Ticket bonuses are not split between tied players.

Everyone tied at an eligible top-20 rank receives its bonus, even if the tie means more than 20 wallets qualify.

Daily resets and attempts

A UK day follows Europe/London, including GMT and BST. Three free plays are shared across all games. A purchased pack adds five more shared plays for 5 USDC, and unused purchased plays carry over.

A play is consumed when the run starts. Its score, Tickets and game activity belong to the UK day on which it finishes. A run started before midnight and finished afterwards counts toward the next day’s leaderboard and plot activity.

How scores are saved

The server checks your controls throughout each wallet-linked game and calculates its official score. Keep your connection active while playing. Finishing a game saves the result already verified by the server; the browser cannot supply a different score or replace earlier controls.

Run history records the game, start and completion times, status and calculated score. The same completed run cannot be submitted again for another reward.

What leaderboards award

Leaderboards award Tickets. The previous daily USDC leaderboard prizes and token-airdrop plan are superseded. USDC earnings belong to eligible Arcade Floor plots and depend on the revenue allocated to their associated games.

See Revenue & claims for plot revenue, activity and claim rules.