Puzzle race/Rounds
Timed puzzles. Measured clocks. No paste.
A recruiting filter with real USDT prizes. First three accepted completions of the open quiz win — ranked by quiz score, then taxed elapsed time. One prize per person per week.
What you are signing up for.
Timed puzzles. USDT (dollar face value) for the first accepted answers.
You type. You do not paste.
Leave the page and the clock taxes you exponentially.
We screen written answers for AI assistance.
We trade our own capital. Prize USDT is a recruiting cost, not an investment product.
Send nothing about markets you think we trade. That is not the test.
Prize ladder.
| Band | Difficulty | 1st | 2nd | 3rd | Pool (USDT) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| I | Cheap / warm-up quiz | $5 | $3 | $1 | $9 |
| II | Easy–standard quiz | $10 | $5 | $3 | $18 |
| III | Harder quiz | $20 | $15 | $10 | $45 |
| IV | Hard quiz | $50 | $30 | $20 | $100 |
| V | Hardest quiz (multi-part reasoning) | $100 | $75 | $50 | $225 |
Face value is quoted in dollars. Winners are paid the matching USDT amount after acceptance. One prize per person per week.
Open round.
Round details appear here while a round is open. The timer starts only when you press Start on the play page.
- Title
- Band
- Time budget
- Questions
How a round works.
- While a round is open, its title, band and time budget are shown on this page. Questions are not published in advance.
- The timer starts only when you press Start on the play page. Questions appear at that moment, and the server clock governs.
- You submit typed answers for every item. Reasoning items require free text.
- Objective items are scored automatically. Reasoning items enter the review queue.
- Every free-text field is screened for AI assistance.
- Accepted attempts are ranked by quiz score, then by taxed elapsed time. Ties break on earlier start.
- Payout follows a stated SLA after identity checks and any required tax forms.
- Winners may opt in to a single anonymised announcement. We never publish email addresses.
Anti-cheat.
Paste, drop, and context-menu insertion are blocked on answer fields. The server reconstructs your text from keystroke events and rejects submissions that cannot be replayed from that log.
When you leave the tab or lose focus, hidden time accumulates. Let τ = 15 seconds and k = floor(hidden_seconds / τ). Your ranking clock is:
taxed = wall_elapsed + τ × (2^k − 1)
The first hidden chunk costs τ seconds. Each further chunk doubles the penalty. A live taxed-time display on the play page shows the cost of leaving.
After taxed time exceeds four times the quiz time budget, the attempt voids automatically.
Written-answer screening.
Written answers are classified by an automated judge. High-confidence AI-assisted text is rejected. Borderline cases go to human review before ranking. The judge never pays or bans on its own — it flags.
Who may enter.
This is a skill contest, not a lottery. You must be 18 or older. Eligible jurisdictions are UAE, Dubai, DIFC. One attempt per identity per round. One prize per person per week.