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Magic Ball

Three cups, one ball, one guess.

Magic Ball is the shell game, settled instantly. A ball goes under one of three cups and you pick which. One round, one decision, one result — the shortest game in the catalogue and the easiest to explain to a new player.

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Magic Ball
RTP
96.66%
Volatility
medium
Min stake
0.20
Max stake
10000.00

How to play

  1. 1Set your stake.
  2. 2Pick one of the three cups.
  3. 3The round settles immediately and the cup is lifted.

How it pays

A correct cup pays a fixed multiple of the stake, set so the return to player lands on the published figure. There is no partial result: the round either pays or it does not.

Is there a strategy?

Each cup is equally likely and the position is fixed by the seed before you pick. Picking the same cup every time and picking a different one every time have exactly the same expected return.

Is it fair?

Yes, and you can check rather than take our word for it. Before a round is played we publish the SHA-256 hash of the server seed. When the seed is rotated we reveal it, and anyone can recompute every round played under it. The game’s mathematics is versioned, and each round records the version it ran on.

How provable fairness works