- How does Diamonds work?
- You choose nothing — you stake and roll. Five stones drop, each taking one of seven colours, for 16,807 equally likely outcomes. The shape of the set decides the payout: five alike 20×, four alike 7.9×, a full house 4×, three alike 2.5×, two pairs 1.5×, one pair 0.3×, and five different colours loses.
- Is the 0.3× pair a win or a loss?
- It is a loss. A pair lands on 8,400 of the 16,807 rolls — 49.98%, very nearly half of them — and returns only 0.3× of the stake, meaning most of it is gone. The paytable marks it as partial money back and never colours it as a win.
- Why does the rarest losing shape still pay nothing?
- Because the paytable is ordered by price, not by rarity. Five different colours lands on 2,520 of the 16,807 rolls — 14.99%, genuinely rarer than a pair's 8,400 — and it is still the 0× row. The two do not track each other, which is why every row prints its own chance beside its multiplier.
- What is the payout rate?
- A roll returns exactly 15,974/16,807 of the stake — 95.04% — so the house edge is exactly 833/16,807 = 4.96%. The contract proves that identity when the table is loaded: a table that does not carry it cannot be loaded at all, so no bet is ever placed against the wrong odds.
- How do I verify a roll?
- Take the VRF-proved random value, reduce it modulo 16,807, and read the result in base 7. Those five digits are the five stones, lowest stone first. Count the matching colours to name the shape, then read the table for the multiplier — one modulo and five divisions in all.