One secp256k1 key is a nostr identity, a Bitcoin address, and a
signer — and your balance is a signed trail any game can verify, not a
number in anyone's database. Every game here is pure static, every pixel from
code, and where chance sails, the next Bitcoin block decides — nobody
knows the outcome before the tide comes in, and anyone can check it after.
The pattern is documented in
BUILDING-GAMES.md
— build a boat and join the fleet.
Setting sail
♠️The Den ⚓ seal-readyplayer-attested
The Tavern's back room: heads-up limit hold'em for gold against the Libre
Poker champion — 296 million hands of training across the felt. Stacks carry,
you play to the felt, winner takes all. The one fleet game that is honest
about its trust: your result is attested by your signature, not proven by a
block — the till caps what that trust can cost.
A million shares a season, one gold each, bought with sealed gold that is
burned on the spot. The book lives beside Tideholm's hall of fame and outlives
the season: who holds it is drawn live, the sale and the holders as charts. No
vote and no trading yet — each is a later law.
Bet on the boats — the next block runs the race. Five sails, posted odds,
a slow-motion photo finish, and a log where every result verifies in your
browser from public chain data.
Tide Dice — stake on a roll seeded by the next block, verify every round
offline, and walk your winnings home on a signed slip. The venue that proved
the courier pattern.
The island empire the gold comes from — a slow-burn browser strategy game
in the classic early-2000s style. Raise your banner, seal your gold at the
Tidegate, and sail it into the fleet.
Chart a course through hidden reefs — the next block places them. You shape
your own odds twice over: more reefs, longer courses, identical house edge on
every combination. The chart discloses the reefs after every run, win or lose.
Draw poker across two tides — one block deals your hand, you choose your
holds, the next block draws. A real decision between two randomnesses, each
stage provable, and your skill genuinely matters. 8/5 Jacks-or-Better.
Dig for wreck-relics with Brine the crab. The pool is an honest urn — the
odds shift with every stone, completed relics pay on the spot, and knowing
when to wade out is the whole game. Solved by the maths, charmed by the crab.
Read the harbourmaster's hidden five-flag hoist — a deduction game where the
order doesn't exist until you probe it. Wrong flags fall to the deck as clues,
right ones lock and pay; sharp play faces exactly 3%, and every probe verifies.
Pick your notch, drop the pearl: the walls buzz, the twin bumpers pay, the
golden shell glows — and shell, bumper, dead centre in one fall is the Pearl
Run, ×10. Every step written by the next block; every notch, the same honest edge.
European roulette on a ship's wheel — place your spread on the chart-table felt
and the next block turns the helm. One number settles every bet: 2.70% across the
whole felt, all 155 legal bets enumerated and proven in the tests.
One five-letter word a day — dealt to the whole world by the first Bitcoin
block after midnight UTC. No editor, no server, no favourites: everyone gets
the same word, streaks and share grids included, and anyone can verify the deal.
Six-deck blackjack at the jackstaff — dealer stands on 17, naturals pay 3:2,
double and split as the book allows. The strategy book itself is derived from
first principles in the tests, and every finished hand replays from its seed.
Six-handed no-limit hold'em sit & go against five characters who play their
nature. Exact side pots, the full min-raise law, every shuffle seeded and
replayable — blinds rise every 8 hands until one sailor holds every chip.
⚓Sealed gold — the trust rules
(tideholm#154)
are the last plank: the tavern and the regatta already stake the same sealed balance,
carried by you, verified by anyone; each boat earns its ⚓ as its wiring lands.
the real cargo
