Official Rules

Skill, not chance

Each relic is placed at a coordinate determined before the season opens and derived from a solvable chain of reasoning. There is no draw, no random selection and no element of luck in who wins. Sweeping the map is not a strategy: the world is large enough that brute force is slower than thinking.

The staff cannot detect, reveal or hint at a relic. Resonate lights up Fragments — the lore collectibles — and nothing else. This limit is enforced in the code, not just promised here.

No purchase necessary

Every account gets 6 minutes of free playtime each day, permanently, without paying anything. Playtime packs buy more hours in the world; they do not buy odds, hints, or any advantage in finding a relic.

A player who never spends a lira can win any prize on this page.

The prizes

Selva (Growth) — 100 × $125, 100 winners.

Aeon (Time) — $25,000, 1 winner.

Orin (Origin) — 5 × 3 months AI, 5 winners.

Lume (Light) — 5 × RTX 5090, 5 winners.

Krys (Matter) — $40,000, 1 winner.

Calder (Forge) — 0.5 Bitcoin, 1 winner.

Noema (Mind) — $50,000, 1 winner.

Vythe (Void) — $100,000, 1 winner.

115 people can win something this season. There is no all-eight grand prize: it was removed on 4 September 2026 and no page may offer it.

The Bitcoin prize and volatility

The Calder prize is half a Bitcoin. How currency risk is carried is one of three mechanisms — the coin bought and held before the season opens, an award with a published liability cap, or a payment of the dollar value on a named index at verification — and which one applies will be stated here in full before the season opens.

It is not stated yet because it is part of what the legal opinion in gate one settles, and no prize is offered until that gate is green. Publishing a number before then would be inventing a term, not disclosing one.

A find is provisional, not a win

When you interact with a relic the server records a provisional claim. A provisional claim confers no entitlement. Before any award there is an automated integrity review of the session record, a human review, identity and age verification, sanctions screening, tax documentation, and a check that the payment history carries no chargeback or fraud flag.

Verification is completed within 30 days and the result is sent by email. Each relic has a fixed number of places, enforced in the database rather than by counting by hand.

If something breaks, the season stops

On credible evidence of a leak, a critical vulnerability or compromised integrity, new entries are suspended and playtime balances are frozen without loss to anyone. The season then either resumes with the same remedy for every affected entrant, or is cancelled with every purchase made during it refunded.

This is a switch that exists in the software, not a paragraph. Flipping it refuses new sessions and stops taking payments within seconds, and it cannot be flipped without a named operator and a written reason.

Publicity is optional

A winner may be asked to take part in publicity and may refuse. Refusing changes nothing about the prize. Where a winner agrees, only a first name and a country are announced unless broader consent is given in writing.

What can and cannot change

These rules can be amended only where the law requires it or to correct a plain error, and any change is published here with its date and reason.

Relic placements can never change. They are committed as hashes before the season opens, so a moved relic would fail its own published proof.

Sealed before launch

Each relic position is committed as a SHA-256 hash of a sealed record before the season opens, and the hashes are published on the proof page. After a relic is claimed, its record is revealed so anyone can recompute the hash and confirm nothing moved.

This is the reason the world generation is deterministic and never uses a random number: the same coordinates must be reproducible by anyone checking our work.

Three gates before any prize is offered

No prize is offered, and no claim can be made, until three independent gates are green and shown publicly on the status page: a written legal opinion that this is a skill competition; funded escrow or a prize indemnity policy covering the full maximum season liability, with public proof; and written approval of this model from the payment provider.

The gates fail closed. If any of them is missing, the software refuses to open the season — that behaviour is tested, not merely intended.

Eligibility and conduct

One account per person. Multiple accounts operated by one person, automated play, modified clients and shared solutions submitted through another account are all grounds for disqualification.

Prizes cannot be awarded where local law forbids them. Taxes on a prize are the winner's responsibility, except where the operator is required to withhold.

Nivector may correct an error in a prize description; it may not move a relic after the season opens, because the sealed hash would no longer verify and everyone would see it.

Disputes

Raise a dispute through the report form; you receive a receipt number and a written decision with reasons. Turkish law applies and the courts of Konya, Türkiye have jurisdiction, without removing any right a consumer has under the mandatory law of their own country.