Predict 104 World Cup matches. Outsmart the room. Climb the wall.
TWO WAYS TO PLAY
PRO
Stake the 500 IOTA buy-in — it goes into the shared pot.
Eligible for the payout at the end.
Scored against the other Pros (your own lane).
FUN
Free to join. No buy-in, no payout.
Ranked on the same wall as everyone else.
Scored against the other Fun players (your own lane).
Either way you claim a unique name.clueless.iota handle when you join — that's how you show up on the wall and in chat.
MAKING PICKS · TIMING
For each match you choose a result (home / draw / away). Optionally call the exact score for a bonus, and answer any vibes side-questions. You can edit a pick as many times as you like — until kickoff.
SLATE OPENSpick + edit freely
EDITABLEchange your mind anytime
🔒 KICKOFFlocks — final pick counts
RESOLVEDpoints credited
At kickoff the match locks. No new picks, no edits — the result you had at kickoff is the one that counts.
HOW SCORING WORKS
Points are pari-mutuel. Everyone who picks a match feeds a points pool; the players who got it right split that pool. The fewer who are right, the bigger each slice. Being cleverly clueless pays.
1 of 8 right120pts each
3 of 8 right40pts each
8 of 8 right15pts each
A worked example
Base 15 pts · 8 Pros picked this match · 3 got the result right. Pool = 15 × 8 = 120, split across the 3 winners.
RESULTCorrect result (home win)pool 120 ÷ 3 winners✓+40
EXACTCalled the exact scoreflat bonus, if you nailed it✓+20
VIBE“Keeper to score?” — its own mini-pooleach vibe pays out separately✓+12
Two separate lanes
Pros and Fun players never dilute each other — each match is scored twice, once per lane, off the same base.
PRO LANEPros only · pool 15 × Pro pickers
FUN LANEFun only · pool 15 × Fun pickers
WILDCARDS
The Double Down is a one-per-match booster you spend from a limited per-round budget. Play it when you're confident.
⏫DOUBLE DOWNACTIVE
Doubles your entire score for that match — result, exact and vibes.
NORMAL40
DOUBLED80
How many you get, per round
Group18
R325
R163
QF1
SF2
3rd1
Final1
Budgets are per round, not per match — spend them where they matter. At most one wildcard per match.
PAYOUTS
When the tournament ends the pot is frozen and paid to the top three Pros. Winner takes 50%, runner-up 30%, third 20%. Finish off the podium and you walk away with nothing — it's all about the top.
1st · 50%2nd · 30%3rd · 20%
One settlement pays the podium at once — no claiming. Ties split their tiers evenly; if fewer than three Pros score, the shares scale up so the whole pot still pays out. Fun players don't share the pot (they never staked), but they still rank on the wall.
THE TOURNAMENT
104MATCHES IN ALL
72 + 32GROUP + KNOCKOUT
Group-stage fixtures are set from kickoff. Knockout matches start with placeholders (“Runner-up Group A”) and fill in with the real teams once the group stage resolves — so a bracket match may show TBD-style names until then.
FREQUENTLY ASKED
GLOSSARY
Pro
A player who staked the buy-in. Eligible for the pot.
Fun
A free player. Ranks on the wall, no stake, no payout.
Pari-mutuel
A shared-pool payout: the correct picks split the pool, so fewer winners means more each.
Lane
A scoring group. Pros and Fun players are scored in separate lanes off the same base.
Slate
A match's set of questions — the result plus any vibes.
Vibe
A side-question on a match, scored as its own mini-pool.
Wildcard
A one-per-match booster spent from a per-round budget — currently the Double Down.
Buy-in
The IOTA a Pro stakes to enter the pot.
Pot
The pooled buy-ins, split across Pros by score at the end.
Knockout
The single-elimination rounds (Round of 32 → Final).