Frequently Asked Questions

Each lottery is a raffle with a fixed ticket price and a scheduled draw time. Tickets are your entries, and the prize pool grows with every ticket sold. When the timer hits zero the round closes and one winning ticket is selected, and the wallet holding it is paid the entire pot.

Open a live lottery, choose how many tickets you want, and confirm. Each ticket costs the price shown on the card and is bought from your balance. You can buy up to 100 tickets per purchase, and a single wallet may hold at most 100 tickets in any one round.

The pot is funded entirely by ticket sales; the house never adds a seed. A fixed share of sales goes to the prize pool and the rest is the house edge. The exact split is shown on each lottery ("% to prize pool") before you buy.

When the round closes the server reveals the seed it committed before tickets went on sale and derives the winning ticket number from it. The wallet holding that ticket wins the whole pot. Anyone can re-run the published formula and confirm the result.

Yes, while a round is still live you can sell all of your tickets in that round back for 50% of what you paid. Selling forfeits the entries and pays the refund to your balance immediately.

A round needs at least two distinct wallets to run. If fewer than two wallets entered, the round is voided and every buyer is refunded in full, so nobody plays against themselves for their own stake.

Recurring lotteries automatically open the next round on their own schedule once the current one settles. Non-recurring rounds stay finished; you can always browse results on the Past Draws page.

A duel is a heads-up coin flip between two players. Both stake the same amount, and the flip decides whose side wins the pot. It is the fastest game on The Hood: most duels finish seconds after an opponent joins.

Pick a premade tier ($5, $20, $50, $100) or create a custom lobby with any stake from $1 upward. Creating a lobby locks your stake from your balance. When another player takes the lobby you are matched automatically; the flip runs after a short animation.

The moment a duel is matched, the server commits a fresh seed (its hash is published) and then derives the winner from that seed, the public client seed, and the lobby id. The result is a single bit: side 0 is the lobby creator, side 1 is the opponent. The seed is revealed once the duel settles so you can verify it.

The prize is the combined pot (both stakes) minus a 0.5% rake taken once when the duel settles. The winner receives the rest; the loser loses their stake.

An open lobby that goes 24 hours without an opponent is cancelled and your stake is refunded in full. You can also cancel your own open lobby at any time to get your stake back before anyone joins.

No. Each account can have one active duel or battle at a time, so finish or cancel it before joining or creating another. This keeps stakes from overlapping and balances predictable.

A case battle is a 1v1 race where both players open the same case for a set number of rounds. Every round each player is dealt one item from that case's drop table. When the rounds finish, the player whose items are worth more in total wins both sides' drops; an exact tie splits the drops evenly.

Choose a case and how many rounds to play (2 to 10). Your stake is the case price multiplied by the number of rounds, locked from your balance when you create the battle. An opponent takes the other side with the same stake, and the rounds open automatically.

A case is a set of possible items, each with its own value and its own chance of dropping (its weight). Cheaper items are common, big items are rare. The combined expected value of a case is always set slightly below its price, so the house edge lives in the drop table rather than in a rake.

When a battle is matched the server commits a seed whose hash is published immediately. Every round and slot is derived from that committed seed, the public client seed, and the battle id, using the same provably fair scheme as the other games. Drops appear live as the rounds play out, and the seed is revealed at settlement so the whole board can be re-verified.

There is no direct rake on a case battle. The house edge is built into the case drop tables, whose expected value is slightly below the case price. That keeps the payout fully transparent: the winner takes the actual value of the items, whatever it happens to be.

Like a duel, an open battle that sits for 24 hours is cancelled and your stake is refunded in full, and you can cancel your own open battle any time before an opponent joins.

You deposit SOL, USDC, or USDT to the personal deposit address we generate for you. A background worker detects the transfer, snapshots the market price, and credits your balance in USD terms. Transfers worth less than $1 are recorded and swept with your other deposits but are not credited, so nothing is lost.

Your balance is denominated in USD and displayed in SOL terms (toggle between the two in the header). Winnings from tickets, duels, and battles are credited to that balance, and game stakes are debited from it.

Withdrawals are paid in SOL to your wallet. There is a $5 minimum per withdrawal and a flat $1 service fee, plus the standard Solana network fee. An automated worker processes them, usually within minutes.

Every game uses a commit-reveal scheme. A secret server seed is generated and its hash is published before entries are locked; the seed itself is revealed only after settlement. Because the commitment is fixed in advance, the operator cannot grind a seed against the final player set. Re-run any draw at /provably-fair.

Sign in by proving ownership of a Solana wallet. No email or password needed. One wallet means one account, and you must accept the Terms of Service before you can play. You must be 18 or older and not in a restricted jurisdiction.

My Activity shows your tickets, duels, battles, deposits, and withdrawals. Past Draws keeps finished lottery rounds, and each game page has a recent-results section and leaderboard.

Email [email protected] with your wallet address and what happened, and we will look into it.