Entry is free. No payment, token holding, or purchase of any kind is required to enter or to win, and nothing you buy improves your chances. Your free run is the only run that enters. Paid re-runs move you on the board and never into the draw.
If anything published anywhere about Paper Hands ever suggests otherwise, this is the sentence that holds.
Play the day's deck and paste a wallet address next to your handle. Your first run of the day is scored and posted to that day's board, and the top ten scores carrying an address when the day closes are the entrants. There is nothing to sign up for and nothing to install — an address pasted in is the whole of it.
Change your address whenever you like. The one on your entry when the day closes is the one recorded, and after that the day cannot move.
| Moment | What happens |
|---|---|
| 00:00 UTC | The day ends and the deck turns over |
| 00:00–00:10 UTC | Grace. A run already in progress can still be submitted for the day that just ended |
| 00:10 UTC | The board is snapshotted and published. Nothing joins it after this, including by us |
| ~00:20 UTC | The committed drand round publishes and decides the winner |
Not by us, and it is checkable rather than a promise.
At 00:10 UTC the ten entrants are written down and published along with a drand round number that has not happened yet. drand is a public randomness beacon produced on a fixed schedule by a threshold of independent operators; every round is verifiable after the fact and nobody can predict one in advance.
When that round publishes, its randomness decides the winner: the randomness read as a number, modulo the number of entrants, counted down the published list from the top. Because the round does not exist when the list goes up, the result cannot be steered by anyone, and that includes us.
The snapshot is written once and cannot be rewritten. Neither can the result.
Fewer than ten scores on a day means the draw runs among however many there are. No scores means no draw and no prize that day.
Thirty percent of the creator fees the token earned that day, paid in ETH on Robinhood Chain. A fixed share, never a fixed pot.
Trades pay 3%: a 1% pool fee, of which 70% reaches the creator, and a 2% creator tax. The creator therefore receives 2.7% of volume, so the prize works out at 0.81% of the day's trading volume. On a quiet day that is a very small amount of money, and it gets published exactly as it lands rather than rounded up into something more flattering.
There is no cash alternative and the prize is not transferable. One winner a day.
There is nothing to claim. When the day closes at 00:10 UTC, the address on your entry is copied into the snapshot along with your score, and that is the address the prize goes to. It is not looked up again afterwards, so nothing about a closed day can change — not by you and not by us.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Which address | Whatever was on your entry at 00:10 UTC |
| Changing it | Any time, for future draws. Never for a draw already closed |
| Payment | Within seven days, with the transaction published against the day |
| Wrong address | If it is wrong when the day closes, that is where the prize goes |
Addresses are shown truncated on the board, so a payment can be checked against the chain by anybody without a full address sitting next to a handle.
An entry can be taken off the board for a name that should not be on a public page, for a run obtained by tampering with the game or the scoring, or for entering more than once a day under different identities. Removal happens before the snapshot wherever possible. After the snapshot, the published list stands.