About

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

Gameplay

Multiple rounds can be live at the same time. Each round has its own image, timer, guesses, and pot. Images gradually become clearer over several days. Pay a bitcoin lightning fee to submit a guess for the specific round you are viewing. If you correctly identify what that image is about, you win that round's pot.

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 an image to clear can help, but you risk losing that pot to someone else. Browse past rounds to see examples of valid answers, solved clarity, expired rounds, and pot rollovers.

Seer Control

Seer Control lets any player pay for Intense Focus, a temporary clarity boost for their own browser or device.

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 times each Intense Focus level has been used. Intense Focus pricing scales from the sponsor-funded starting pot. 60% of each focus payment is added to that round's pot, and 40% is kept by the site.

Fees & Pot

Each round has its own pot. A paid sponsor funds the starting pot before a round can go live. Guess pricing and Intense Focus pricing scale from that sponsor-funded starting pot.

Each guess costs 25% of the starting pot. Intense Focus costs 12.5%, 25%, or 37.5% of the starting pot for +5%, +10%, or +15% clarity. For every paid guess or Intense Focus use, 60% is added to that round's pot and 40% is kept by the site.

If a round expires without a winner, only the extra sats added on top of the sponsor-funded starting pot roll into a future queued round. The original starting pot does not roll over. If no future round is available yet, the rollover is held pending and applied to the next created round.

Sponsorship

Sponsors can pay 2000 or 4000 sats to be matched with a future round and fund that round's starting pot. Paid sponsors are matched oldest-first to queued rounds and can add a display name, optional link, and optional short message that appear with the sponsored round. The 4000 sat tier gets a more prominent sponsor placement.

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.