Seats · rounds · one winner

How it works

One product, a fixed number of seats, and a draw anyone can check. Here are the real numbers for a lot that opens today. Each lot keeps the rules it opened with, listed on its page under “All the rules”.
  1. 60Take a seat
  2. 3 roundsEach spin leaves fewer players
  3. from 3Boost your slice
  4. 1 winnerOne player takes it home
  5. All publicAnyone can check a draw

Seats

Each product has a fair price in coins, close to what it costs in a shop. The seats share that price, plus 30%.

Seat
fair price × 1.3 ÷ seats

Rounded up to the next 5 coins (to the next 1 for products under 300). The 30% on top pays for shipping and running the game. For a 1,299 phone in a 30-seat lot: 1,299 × 1.3 ÷ 30 = 56.3, so a seat is 60.

Rounds

A full lot plays 24 hours later, every round in one evening. Before each spin you have 60 seconds to boost.

10 seats
10about 41
20 seats
20about 8about 41
30 seats
30about 11about 51

The wheel stops under a green window. If your slice touches it, even by a sliver, you go through. How many go through depends on where it stops, so the counts above are estimates (~), but it's always at least 2.

The final is one spin: whoever it lands on wins.

You don't need to watch. Your inbox reminds you an hour before every round, and results arrive once the wheel has played.

Boosts

A boost makes your slice of the wheel bigger for one round. It's optional, and it never guarantees anything.

+0.5weight a unit
Any amountof units a round (up to 500), reset each round
60 sto boost before each round's spin

A boost costs the chance to get through the round it adds, times the round’s stake, the fair price split among the players in the round: ⌈P ÷ n × chance after⌉ − ⌈P ÷ n × chance before⌉, with no markup and a coin a unit at least. In the final the chance through is the chance to win and the stake is ×2: a boost there sways the most, and a cheap one would only start a race to buy. The chance is counted as if every other player held a plain seat, so the price depends only on how many units you buy and stays put while rivals boost; the chance the card shows is the live one. Buy as many units as you like in one go; one at a time or all together, they cost the same, up to the units that take you through for sure. For a 1,299 product, a full 30-seat lot:

Boost prices for a 1,299 coin product
RoundPlayersChance×2 slice×4 slice
Round 13038%3 → 43%7 → 48%
Round 2~1147%12 → 57%37 → 79%
Final~520%119 → 43%312 → 80%

Weights are whole numbers in hundredths: a plain seat is 100, one unit makes it 150, 2 make it 200, 3 make it 250, 10 make it 600. Only you can see your boosts before the draw. Afterwards every slice is public, so anyone can check the wheel.

In a cut, a bigger slice touches the window more often. In round 1 of a 30-seat lot where nobody else boosts, 10 units take a seat from about 38% to about 52%.

Relics can add perks: luck multiplies your seat's weight by up to ×1.10 in total, and cashback returns up to 10% of your seat when you're out.

Partner deals

Some lots come with an offer on the same product from a partner shop. If the lot has one and you're out, the lot page shows the code.

The discount depends on the partner. We may earn a small commission when you use it; your price is the same either way.

Checking a draw

You don't have to trust us. Every draw comes from seeds we lock in before the first seat is taken, and anyone can replay it.

  1. 1

    We commit before the lot opens

    We make one secret seed per round and chain them backwards, each one the SHA-256 hash of the next. Only the last link, the seed hash, is published when the lot opens.

    seed 3sha256 →seed 2sha256 →seed 1sha256 →seed hash · public
  2. 2

    Each spin is a hash

    Every number in round k comes from that round's seed, as a whole number from 0 to n − 1:

    roll(s, n) = int(first 13 hex of sha256(seed_k + ":" + k + ":" + s)) mod n

    Slices are laid out in seat order, each as wide as its weight, and a roll counts along them from the first seat. In a cut round the window starts at roll(2, total) and is min + roll(1, max − min + 1) long, where min and max are its share range of the total weight (min is at least the biggest slice plus one). It wraps past the last seat, and every slice it touches goes through. In the final, the slice holding roll(1, total) is the winner.

  3. 3

    We reveal, you check

    Right after each draw we publish that round's seed. Its hash must match the link before it (round 1's must match the seed hash), and replaying the formula must give the same result. The lot page does this in your browser with one click.

Check a finished lotComing next: a public randomness beacon (drand) mixed into every seed.

Coins

Coins are the play currency for seats and boosts. They stay inside Get Hot Drop: you can't cash them out, sell them or send them to someone else.

Bonus coins

Sign up
+50
Invited by a friend
+20
Daily
+5
Promo codes

Bonus coins are always spent first. They pay boosts in full. On seats, each lot has a bonus pool: bonus can pay up to 25% of the lot's seats in all, and the rest is bought coins. The seat sheet shows the split before you take a seat.

Bought coins

Nothing is for sale yet. In the demo, “Add demo coins” in the balance menu adds 200 for free, standing in for a purchase.

FAQ

What if a lot doesn't fill?
If a lot isn't full by its deadline (7 days after it opens, by default), it's cancelled and every seat is refunded in full, as the same kind of coins you paid with.
Do I have to watch the wheel live?
No. Rounds run on schedule whether you're there or not. We hold your result until the wheel has played, so nobody hears before they could have seen it.
Can I see other people's boosts?
Not before the draw: you only see your own. Once a round is drawn, every slice and weight is public on the lot page.
How do I know the draw isn't rigged?
The seeds are locked in before the lot opens and revealed after each round, so anyone can replay every spin. Here's how.
What happens when I win?
You get a notification and a claim form for your delivery address. We send the product new and sealed, and you can follow it from your account.
Can I turn coins back into money?
No. Coins are a closed-loop play currency: no cash-out, no transfers, no resale.
Who can play?
Anyone 18 or over. The official rules have the details.
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