The rules for paid challenges.

Who can enter

You must be 18 or over to create or enter a paid challenge. You confirm this before your first payment.

You need a Google account to play a challenge, so that scores can be attributed and winners can be paid.

Paid challenges are not available everywhere. Where local law treats a paid score contest as gambling, do not enter one.

Entry fees and what you are charged

A challenge creator sets one entry fee between $0.50 and $5.00, in 25 cent steps. Everyone pays the same amount, the creator included.

Card processing is added on top of the entry fee and shown before you pay. A $0.50 entry is charged at $0.83; a $5.00 entry is charged at $5.46. The difference is what the card networks and Stripe charge to move the money, and it is not kept by 3sb.

Payments are handled by Stripe. 3sb never sees or stores your card details.

How the pool is split

The prize pool is the entry fee multiplied by the number of players who paid.

Winners receive 90% of the pool. 3sb keeps 10%.

If two or more players tie for the win, they split the 90% equally. Where the split leaves a remainder of a few cents that cannot be divided evenly, that remainder stays with 3sb, because there is no non-arbitrary way to choose which winner receives it.

How a challenge ends

The creator chooses one of two endings when they create the challenge, and it cannot be changed afterwards.

Highest score: everyone plays until the window closes, and the highest score wins.

First to beat: the first player to pass the creator’s score ends the challenge immediately and wins. If nobody passes it before the window closes, the creator wins.

The creator’s score is set by their own run and cannot be changed once set. Each player gets one scoring run per challenge.

No refunds

Entry fees are not refundable. Once you have paid to enter a challenge, that payment is final.

This applies whether or not you play your run, whether or not you win, if you run out of time, if you change your mind, if you lose connection, or if you are unhappy with the result.

You are paying to enter a contest. You are not paying for a result, and losing is one of the outcomes you are paying for.

If a challenge creator never completes their own payment, the challenge is deleted before anyone can join it, and no money changes hands. That is not a refund, because nothing was ever collected.

There is one exception. If a challenge reaches the end of its window with nobody having played a single run, every entry is returned automatically to the card it came from. We do not keep the entry fees for a contest that never happened. This is the only circumstance in which money comes back, it happens without you asking, and it does not extend to a challenge you simply did not get around to playing.

Getting paid

Winnings are paid by transfer to a Stripe account you connect yourself. 3sb never holds your bank details.

You must complete Stripe’s onboarding, including its identity checks, before a transfer can be sent. Until you do, your winnings are held and the transfer goes out automatically once you are set up.

Once a transfer reaches your connected account, Stripe pays it to your bank on its own schedule. Delays at that stage are between you and Stripe.

You are responsible for any tax owed on winnings.

Fair play

Scores are validated on our servers. A run has to be authorised before it starts and each authorisation can be used once.

We may void a score, remove a player, or withhold a payout where we have reason to believe a score was not achieved by playing the game. Where a score is voided, the challenge is resolved as though it had not been submitted.

The game runs in your browser, so this raises the cost of cheating rather than removing it. If you think a result was not genuine, tell us.

Your responsibility

You enter challenges entirely at your own risk and you accept full responsibility for doing so, including the loss of every entry fee you pay.

You are responsible for confirming that entering a paid score contest is lawful where you live. If it is not, do not enter. You accept full responsibility if you do.

You are responsible for any tax owed on winnings, and for the accuracy of the payout details you give Stripe.

You agree to hold 3sb harmless from any claim, loss, cost or demand arising out of your use of challenges, and to cover any cost 3sb incurs because of it.

To the fullest extent the law allows, 3sb accepts no liability of any kind arising from challenges: not for lost entry fees, lost winnings, lost or interrupted runs, scores that fail to record, delayed or failed payouts, downtime, or the conduct of any other player.

Nothing here limits any right you have that cannot be waived under the law where you live.

When things go wrong

If a challenge cannot be resolved for a technical reason, we decide the outcome at our sole discretion.

We may cancel, void or end any challenge at any time.

These terms may change. Changes apply to challenges created after the change, never to one you have already paid into.

Contact

Questions and disputes: hello@3sb.io. Tell us the challenge and the email you paid with.