Slither rules & fees

Three ways to play

Cash games

• Every room has one fixed entry. Your snake starts worth the entry minus the 5% fee — 0.0095 SOL in the 0.01 room.
• Your value is shown above your head, and everyone else's above theirs.
• Length and value are separate. Food and boosting only change length. Value changes only when a snake dies.
• When a snake dies — running into another snake's body, or into the wall — 100% of its value spills out as gold orbs along its body. Anyone can collect them. The snake it crashed into gets nothing automatically; you have to go and eat them.
• Orbs never expire and the house never collects them. If a room empties, its orbs stay put for the next players.
• To cash out, hold the cash-out button (or the C key) for 3 seconds. While it charges your snake flies straight: steering and boost are locked, so pick a clear line first. Letting go cancels it and gives you control back, and dying cancels it. When it completes, your snake's current value goes straight to your balance.
• You can only have one money snake at a time.

Disconnects, restarts and frozen rooms

• Disconnected: your snake keeps going straight for 5 seconds. If it survives, it's cashed out automatically. Reconnect within 5 seconds and you're back in control. You can't dodge a death by pulling the plug.
• Planned server restart: every snake in a money room is refunded at its current value first — the same amount a cash-out would pay.
• Unexpected server stop: snakes are refunded at their last checkpoint, taken every 2 seconds. Any value that moved in those last seconds is settled by the house.
• Frozen room: if staff freeze a room, or its internal accounting check ever fails, everyone in it is refunded at their current value immediately.
• Paid but never joined: if you buy in and don't enter the room within 2 minutes, the whole entry is refunded, fee included.

Tournaments

• Scheduled every 30 minutes for each tier. Register any time before the start.
• Each match lasts 5 minutes. Dying isn't the end — you respawn after 3 seconds.
• Your score is your length at the final whistle. Kills break ties.
• The pool is every buy-in. After the 10% fee, the top 3 are paid 50% / 30% / 20%. Players tied on both score and kills share the prizes for the places they cover equally.
• You must actually play: entrants who score 0 can't place. If fewer than 3 players score, the prizes are rescaled so the whole prize pool is still paid out.
• Fewer than 4 entrants when it's due to start, nobody scoring, or a server restart mid-match: the tournament is cancelled and every buy-in is refunded in full, fee included.

Fair play

• The server runs the game. Your device only sends which way you're steering and whether you're boosting; it can't move your snake faster, teleport it, or change its size or value.
• Each player only receives what's near them on screen, so there's nothing to reveal from the rest of the map.
• Scripts and bots are banned. Automated input can't be stopped outright, but patterns are flagged for review — for example two accounts from one address in the same money room, or one account repeatedly feeding another.
• Every death is logged with who was involved and how much value dropped, so disputes can be checked.

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