Infernal Cauldrons mini-game in ETH.TOWN

4 min readApr 9, 2018

While we are working on the beta, we have decided to launch a small mini-game on ETH.TOWN to make the waiting a bit more fun!

His Greatness, Lord of Infernal Cauldrons, Infernal Horse hosts this amazing attraction. Put Ether or ETH.TOWN tokens in a cauldron along with other participants, wait, and see who gets the contents.

The Idea

Basically, you can put as little as 0.001 Ether (or ETIT tokens) and win the whole pot, which can be HUGE!

Alternatively, you can put a large amount and get all the Ether or Tokens added by other players if you win, because your chances depend directly on how much you put in.

Winners

There are three winners, they get approximately 50%, 35%, and 15%. The rest goes to the overlord of Infernal Horse and ETIT holders in Ether cauldrons, or in case of ETIT cauldrons, burned. The infernal flames you are witnessing are 100% environmentally friendly and are powered solely by burned ETH.TOWN tokens.

How to play

Select the amount of Eth or ETIT to add to the cauldron. When the timer runs out, 3 winners will be selected and they get around 50%, 35% and 15% (the exact percentage depends on winners’ Hero levels) of the amount of Ether/ETIT in the cauldron.

Amount to brew

You can contribute any amount but no less than 0.001 Ether/ETIT. The more you contribute the higher chance you have to win (they are proportional to value contributed). The draw happens using hash of the last block after the time when the timer expires, no random or pseudo-random values are used. Logs of each draw are preserved.

Drawing winners

When the timer runs out, our system waits for the Ethereum network to reach consensus on the exact form of the block right after the timer expired. When it’s finalized (we are just waiting for it to become 4th block from top), our system will get its hash (a 256-bit number) and perform some arithmetics and bitwise operations with it to select the three winners. All numbers involved are logged and can be checked by pressing the “Report” button.

Something else?

ETIT holders will start getting the ETH coming in from the game revenue from the day 1. Right now it’s already slowly accumulating at the token contract address. Players will be able to withdraw it as soon as we officially launch the game and unlock the interfaces for withdrawal. Dear ETIT holders, remember: the more people play the Infernal Cauldrons, the more revenue you get!

Game reception

Not everyone was happy to see that the first public ETH.TOWN mini-game is something that involves risks. We’d like to tell that not all mini-games in ETH.TOWN will be like that (however we’ll have more games like this one). Some others will not involve any risk at all, they’ll just drive the fun, others will actually give you a chance to win free Ether without any material input from your side.

Stats

So we’ve been running this game since March 30th.

So far the cauldrons worked 532 times! ETIT holders already got a nice ~3ETH in their dividends pool, just from this mini-game alone. How cool is that? The game did not even get launched yet, but proud token holders are already getting profits!

All in all, it looks like the idea of having mini-games inside of ETH.TOWN actually works well for the ones who have jumped in early and for the ones who enjoy this kind of games!

Currently we are working on finishing the main game around heroes, preparing for the distribution of Heroes as ERC-721 (non-fungible) tokens on mainnet to those who bought them in the presale. While we are approaching the beta, we’ll also host a series of trivia contests in our Discord and give away special Pirate Level-6 heroes to the winners :) This should be fun!

ETH.TOWN team.