How to play FOXBALL

How to play, step by step

1. Enter your stake per round and check the limits shown in the game window.
2. Press "Launch" (or Space). The ball runs up the launch lane on the right and into the field.
3. Tap the left or right half of the screen (or press the ← → arrow keys, or Z and /) to flip. Keep the ball from draining and aim it at items that give positive points.
4. The round ends when every ball has drained or after 25 seconds. The points you hold at the end are your win.
5. In real-money play your browser sends the full press log to the server, which replays the round with the same engine and pays only on the result of that replay.

The "How to play" button in the game opens a short explainer at any time. On a phone it plays best in landscape, and big hits get a slow-motion replay after the round.

Rules

• Points: 1 point = 0.0001x the stake (10,000 points = 1x). The round total never goes below zero.
• Each hit has a fixed value by item type and shows at once. Repeat hits pay in full every time (except the gold balls in the launch lane, which count once each).
• Every round is drawn and sealed at the start, and you can see it on the board: the launch angle and power, which 2 of 4 diamond slots are filled, whether each slingshot is positive (60% chance) or negative, whether each coin button is a coin or a skull (skull 30%), the timing of the floating island and the lightning strikes.
• Combo: every 2 positive hits in a row raise positive values by 10% (up to +30%). A negative hit or a drained ball resets the combo.
• Lightning storm: 3 strikes per round (between second 5 and 20) turn a gold bumper or dome gold for a while; its positive value is multiplied by 1.5.
• The blue arrow lane speeds the ball up and multiplies the points of the next hits by 1.5, positive and negative alike.
• Fox Comet: once collected, the ball can hit negative items for a while without losing points.
• The coin magnet, warp gates, free ball, multiball and ball saver (about the first 20 seconds after launch) pay no points themselves, but keep the ball in play longer or send it into more items.
• Treasure chest: the 4 gold balls in the launch lane can be collected while the first ball runs up the lane in the first 4 seconds. Collect all 4 to open the chest once per round; its value is sealed at the start (0.152× to 90× the stake).
• ROYAL crown crest: lit only in some rounds (2.719% of rounds, sealed at the start) and open only in the first 4 seconds of the first ball. If the ball hits the lit crest in that window, the ROYAL wheel spins once and pays 5× to 1,000× the stake.
• The wheel result and the chest value are the only hidden values; the server reveals them with the round result, so the points during play can differ slightly from the final total. The game shows the server total at the end.
• The top win is 1,000x the stake per round, and never above the per-round payout cap.

Paytable and RTP

The table shows the points per hit, before combo, gold or the blue arrow lane (1 point = 0.0001x the stake, rounded to 2 decimals).

The average ROYAL wheel pay is 11.13× and the average treasure chest is 1.23× the stake.

FOXBALL has no single RTP, because part of it is skill. The luck part (the sealed treasure chest and ROYAL wheel) is 82.17% and does not depend on your presses; the hit points depend on play, 6.62–9.63%. From large simulations the total RTP is 88.8% (random presses), 88.9% (reacting to the ball) and 91.8% (the best strategy found in testing). The design cap for the best possible play is 92.5%. On top of that, every real-money round adds 5% of the stake to the Royal Jackpot separately. Each round is random, so a session can land far above or far below the average.

Bet limits

Each game shows its per-round bet range in the game window, and the range can change with the site policy, so no fixed figures are printed here. The lowest stake the site allows is 0.01 USDT.

The maximum FOXBALL stake is set so that 1,000x the stake stays within the per-round payout cap. The game page shows the stake range you can use.

You can play with welcome-bonus promo funds. Promo stakes count toward the wagering requirement at the rate shown on the game page and the bonus page.

Royal Jackpot

Every real-money round adds 5% of the stake to the Royal Jackpot and gets a chance at one of its 4 tiers (MINI, MINOR, MAJOR, GRAND). A bigger stake gives a proportionally bigger chance. Demo rounds cannot win the jackpot.

The ROYAL wheel is a prize of the round itself, separate from the Royal Jackpot. Every real-money round has its Royal Jackpot chance by stake, whether or not it hits the crown crest, and skill has no effect on the jackpot chance.

Demo mode vs real money

Demo mode uses free points, not real money: they cannot be withdrawn or win the jackpot, and the demo pays more than real play. The board and the physics are the same, but positive item values and the treasure chest table are multiplied by 1.134 (RTP about 100% when reacting to the ball, versus 88.8–91.8% with real money). Use it to practise your timing, not as a preview of real-money results.

Verify a round yourself

Before you play you see a commitment (SHA-256 hash) of the server seed that decides the results. When you press "Rotate seed", the old server seed is revealed; press "Verify" on the game page and your browser recomputes every round itself. If the hash and the results match, the results were not changed after you played. The full steps are in the fairness guide.

FOXBALL uses 8 HMAC-SHA256 digests (messages clientSeed:nonce:fb:0 to :fb:7) for 64 random values: the launch, item positions, lightning timing, the wheel result and the chest value. At the start of the round you receive a commitment (SHA-256) of the public part. At the end the system stores the press log and the replay hash. Press "Rotate seed and verify" in the fairness panel of the game page: the old server seed is revealed and your browser recomputes the whole round (commitment, press log, replay, wheel result and chest value). Every round has a round ID (RP- for real money, DP- for demo) and a hash chain.

The press log must follow the rules: presses or releases on the same side at least about 58 milliseconds apart, no more than 500 per round, and submitted only after at least 60% of the replayable round length has passed. A log that breaks the rules is rejected.