Bet on the weekend. Blind.
A season-long game with fake money, real box office, and no spreadsheet.
Opening box office ($M)multiplied byTomatometerequalsYour score
A week, start to finish
The slate goes up
Your commissioner posts the films opening wide this Friday.
You bid, sealed
Whole dollars, $1 minimum, one bid per film, as many films as you like — or $0, which says you looked and passed at any price. Nobody sees anything.
The deadline passes
Every bid opens at once. The top distinct amounts take ownership.
The films open
You watch the weekend numbers like they are yours. Because they are.
Monday it scores
Box office times Tomatometer, and the standings move.
The rules worth knowing
- $100 for the whole season. Never topped up.
- Twenty-odd weekends, one bankroll. Spending big in October is a real choice.
- Several people can own the same film.
- Ownership goes to everyone who bid one of the top distinct amounts — three of them by default — and each owner earns the film's full score. Nothing is split.
- Ties are honoured, so a film can have more owners than tiers.
- Three distinct amounts, not three people. Two players at $6 both win that tier.
- You pay your own bid, not the next one down.
- Bid $11, pay $11 — even if the tier below you was $6.
- Wide releases only, and that is a judgement call.
- Your commissioner decides film by film whether something opened wide. A film later judged not to have is removed, scores for nobody, and every bid on it is refunded in full.
One film, worked through
Backrooms
Opened wide, on a three-tier season — the default
The three highest distinct amounts are $11, $8 and $6 — so six people own it. The four at $6 all tie into the third tier.
All six of them. The $11 bidder and the $6 bidders earn the same 72.45 — the $6 bidders just got it cheaper, which is what points-per-dollar measures.
That is the whole game
Highest points at the end of the season wins. Points per dollar is ranked alongside it.