The field guide

How this whole category actually works.

Free-to-play prediction is new enough that most of what's written about it is either legal boilerplate or hype. This is the version we'd want to read: short, specific, and honest about what you get and what you don't.

Free to play · Featured

What a deposit actually costs you

The obvious cost of a paid app is the money. The interesting cost is what it does to how you watch the game — and to which games you're willing to watch at all.

July 20, 2026 · 6 min read
Second screen

Play along with your TV, not against it

Second-screen apps spent a decade asking you to look down. The good version asks you to look up.

July 14, 2026 · 5 min read
Skill

Skill vs. luck: where the line actually is

A coin flip and a read look identical on any single play. Over four hundred of them, they look nothing alike.

July 8, 2026 · 6 min read
Points & prizes

Anatomy of a streak: how points, ranks and entries stack

Where the points go, why eight in a row is the number, and how a prize drawing entry gets banked.

June 30, 2026 · 7 min read
Friends

Friend challenges, and how to ruin a group chat properly

Head-to-head, season-long, or the shared-goal challenge nobody expects to be the fun one.

June 22, 2026 · 5 min read

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