About

How rounds work, how the pot grows, and what happens if someone beats you to the answer.

Gameplay

An image gradually becomes clearer over time. Pay a bitcoin lightning fee to submit a guess about the image. If you correctly identify what the image is about, you win the current pot. For every wrong guess, the image jumps in clarity by 5%.

We are looking for simple answers. Answers are case insensitive, and leading articles like “a,” “an,” and “the” are ignored. Plural answers also get normalized into their singular state. For example, a guess of "an apple" or "apples" will both become "apple." You get one guess per fee paid. Wrong answers get posted publicly. Some images may accept more than one correct answer, but not every reasonable description will count.

Waiting for the image to clear can help, but you risk losing the pot to someone else. Sometimes making multiple guesses (around a certain idea) could win you the pot! Browse past rounds to see examples of valid answers and past gameplay.

Seer Control

Each round starts with a dark tunnel overlay for each player. You can pay to Awaken for the round, which removes that overlay on your current browser or device and unlocks extra Seer Control abilities.

Awake players can use Intense Focus to temporarily make the image clearer for themselves. Focus boosts are available at +5%, +10%, or +15% clarity and last 30 seconds. These boosts are personal to the browser or device that paid for them; they do not make the image clearer for everyone else.

Seer Control also shows how many players are awake and how many times each Intense Focus level has been used. Intense Focus costs 100 sats per 1% clarity boost, and 60% of each focus payment is added to the pot.

Fees & Pot

Each round starts with a site-funded pot of 4,000 sats. For each paid guess and for each paid Intense Focus use, a 60% share is added to the pot and the remainder is kept by the site. If a round expires without a winner, its pot gets carried over and becomes the starting pot for the next round.

Terms

This site is in beta, so please use it at your own risk. We won’t cheat or manipulate outcomes. If a bug or error on our end causes you to lose sats, we’ll be happy to refund you. If someone submits the correct answer before your paid guess is finalized, you will get an automatic refund. If you need help, please reach out. These terms (including fees and rules) may be updated at any time.

Credit

Over 10 years ago, a game existed called ApopheniaBTC by Tritonio. I enjoyed playing it from time to time until it disappeared. Check out the original Bitcointalk forum post about it here.

Sat Seer is my take on that format, updated with a few new mechanics and built around Lightning payments.