7,777 machines · Robinhood Chain · opening soon
You don’t mint a ticket. You mint the machine.
Pull the lever, keep the machine, stand it on your floor. Seventy per cent of what the house takes goes to the machines on the floors, in ETH.
0.00030 ETH a pull ≈ $0.99 · 7,777 still in the deck · one of them is 7-7-7
- LUCKY DOLORES · Lemon Lemon Lemon
- LADY BENNY · found in the Landmark elevator shaft
- LADY DEUCE · Lemon Lemon Lemon
- MISS CHARM · found in a Henderson storage unit
- KING LOU · Cherry Seven Cherry
- KING BONES · found in a Henderson storage unit
- SLIM DUKE · Cherry Cherry Cherry
- OLD CASH · found in the Landmark elevator shaft
- MISS DUKE · Diamond Bell Bell
- FAT MABEL · found in a Havana warehouse
- MADAME DOLORES · Bell Bell Bell
- DIRTY SAL · found in a Route 66 diner
- SLIM DUKE · Cherry Cherry Cherry
- MADAME DOLORES · found in a Barstow truck stop
- UNCLE NICKEL · Bar Bell Bar
- MISTER VELVET · found in a Henderson storage unit
- MADAME BONES · Lemon Lemon Lemon
- KING BONES · found in a Henderson storage unit
- HOLY DOLORES · Lemon Cherry Cherry
- EASY PENNY · found in a Henderson storage unit
- HONEST MERCY · Clover Clover Clover
- AUNTIE CANDY · found in a Palm Springs garage
- MISTER VELVET · Clover Clover Cherry
- HOLY MERCY · found in a Barstow truck stop
- EASY DIXIE · Bell Cherry Bell
The floor
Six machines, under the lights.
Real geometry, not a picture of it. The regulars walk the aisle because an empty room is a dead room — nobody is playing these machines and no wager anywhere pays anyone.
Some of the deck
Found in basements, 1966 to 1979.
- KING SUGARa Fremont Street storeroomHouse Standard
- QUEEN SUGARan Atlantic City pierHouse Standard
- UNCLE RENOthe Sands loading dockHouse Standard
- BROTHER LOLAa Barstow truck stopPaired
- DOUBLE RUBYthe Dunes coat checkTriple
- WILD MONEYthe Landmark elevator shaftTriple
- EASY DIXIEa Route 66 dinerPaired
- CAPTAIN LOUa Henderson storage unitHouse Standard
The rules
Printed on the back of the card.
- 7 · 7 · 7
- 11.90×
- Three alike
- 7771.45×
- Two alike
- 2,3331.18×
- No match
- 4,6661.00×
There are 7,777 machines and each one is a card in a deck that was shuffled, sealed and hashed before the first pull. A pull costs 0.00030 ETH and takes the next card. The card is the machine: its cabinet, its strip, its topper, and the three symbols it stopped on. Two alike is a Paired, three alike a Triple. One card in the deck reads 7 · 7 · 7.
Your wallet has a floor with 6 places on it. A machine standing on your floor counts; a machine in the rack does not. Three more places cost 0.0012 ETH, up to twelve.
The house takes money four ways — the pull itself, a re-spin, floor space, and 5% of every resale — and seventy per cent of all of it goes to the machines. It is not held and shared out later: it streams, every second, split across every machine standing on a floor. After the deck is published, rarer machines count for more.
That includes the mint, and it is worth saying out loud: seventy per cent of what a new machine costs is paid to the machines already on floors. The people who arrive first are paid by the ones who arrive after them, and every new machine thins the share for everyone already there.
Each payment is released evenly over twelve hours rather than all at once, so a machine installed a second before a big fee does not take the whole of it. You claim whatever has accrued, whenever you like. Sell a machine and it stops earning for you in the same block.
The regulars you see on the floor are decoration. Nobody wagers on a machine and nothing here takes a bet.