The Arcade, cups and leagues (askr Play)

The Arcade

A game askr wrote for your chat joins the Arcade by going on Explore. The Arcade ranks games by how they are played: plays, games finished, rematches and remixes, never likes.

• Put it in the Arcade, on the game's card in your chat, opens Put it on Explore. Putting something on Explore costs $1, once, from your own credits, and you choose whether people may remix it. Put yours on Explore.
• Or choose Put it on Explore under Who can find it? as you invent the game.
• In the Arcade, Play opens a game on its own page. Play with your chat brings a copy into a chat of yours, where its maker allows remixing, at the maker's price if there is one.
• Out of the Arcade, on the card, takes it off again. Putting it back is free.
• Explore's Games has buttons for the askr Arcade, the Daily game, the Model league and Leagues.

The daily game

askr writes one game each day, the same for everyone, at heyaskr.ai/daily. You need no account to play. Your result makes a share card of coloured squares and a score that gives nothing away. Signed in, your first result of the day is kept. A day runs on UTC, and askr pays for the game.

The model league

League round, under Do something together, Games in the + sheet, or a message such as "@askr league round: write a haiku about rain". Two models from different makers answer blind, as A and B.

1. PredictWhile the answers are written, everyone predicts which maker wins, for free points.
2. VoteThe answers show without names. The chat votes for the better one, and you can change your vote until it closes.
3. The revealaskr says which model wrote which. A right prediction is 10 points, and 15 when fewer than half of you called it.

• The round costs the two answers. Its start line says about how much, and whoever started it pays, like an @askr message.
• Every round moves the makers' ratings on the table at heyaskr.ai/league, which anyone can read.
• Signed in, that page also shows your points this month and the season's table.

Cups and seasons

A cup, under Do something together, Games, is a knockout for 4, 8 or 16 players in your chat. People sign up with I'm in, askr draws the bracket, with byes for the top seeds, and every match is a game.

• The match can be Trivia night, Survive the AI, Guess the picture, a roast or rap battle, a game askr wrote in that chat, or any game at all with the host saying who won.
• The host can move the final to a public chat of its own, for people to watch.
• Places are worth free points for the month's season: 30 for the champion, 20 for the runner-up, 10 for a semi-finalist, 6 for a quarter-finalist and 3 for everyone else who played.
• The season's table is on heyaskr.ai/league for people who are signed in. Points are only points: no credits and no $ASKR come from them.
• Opening a cup is free. Each match's game is paid for by the cup's host, like any game.

Beat the AI

Beat the AI, under Do something together, Games, opens a pot guarded by an AI. You write the guard's rules, and people in the chat pay a little for each try to talk it into releasing the pot. Every try goes into the pot, and the first try the guard releases it for wins everything in it.

• A pot starts empty, or with up to $10 of your own. The first try costs $0.10, $0.25 or $0.50, as the opener chose, and each try costs 5% more than the last.
• The guard's rules are fixed when the pot opens and shown on its card, with a fingerprint of them, so nobody can change them later. The person who opened the pot cannot try.
• A try is paid only once the guard has answered it. A guard that does not answer costs nothing.
• A pot closes after 1, 3 or 7 days, or when its opener closes it. If nobody won, every try goes back to whoever paid it, and the starting amount to its opener.
• A pot's start and every try are paid from credits you bought, other than by card, that are more than a day old. Free credits and bonus credits are never used.
• Each person can make 20 tries, put $5 into pots and open three pots a day. A guest cannot open a pot or try.
• The winnings land on the winner's balance as credits.

Streamer mode

For someone who streams. In a public chat you started, Streamer mode, under Do something together, Games, shows the chat's game on your stream and lets the people watching send moments into it.

• Turn it on, set your share, and tap Copy the overlay link. Add the link to your streaming app as a browser source: it shows the chat's game and the moments you approved, on a see-through page. A new link stops the old one.
• People watching the chat on askr tap Send a moment: a voice line, a picture, a song or a twist. Each is priced first, at what it costs to make plus your share.
• Every moment is filtered, and nothing reaches the stream until you tap Approve. Skip drops it, and nothing is paid.
• On Approve the sender pays you the price, as a send between two people, and the moment is then made at your cost. Credits bought by card, bonus credits and a deposit in its first 24 hours cannot be sent.
• A sender needs an account of their own, and can have three moments waiting at a time.