Order up! Fry a hashbrown.

The first 500 hashbrowns cost only the network fee, and they come at twice the usual pace, about one every 15 seconds, so the free run lasts roughly two hours before orders start costing money.

Paid orders start at 0.001 ETH from #501 and rise a little with every order: about 0.0013 at #1,000, 0.0028 at #3,000, 0.0064 at #5,000 and 0.05 at #10,000. No sudden jumps.

There's no cap on how many can be made. The rising price is what slows the game down: by #10,000 an order costs about 50× the first paid one. Difficulty is a pacing rule, not a cost: it moves up and down to keep one hashbrown about every 30 seconds, whoever is playing, with a floor that rises about 10% per 1,000.

Part of every paid order, plus every resale royalty, goes in the jar. That ETH has one job: paying trade-ins on any hashbrown sent back. Nobody can withdraw it, the kitchen included. How fast it grows is also what sets off Happy Hour. That share starts at 10% of an order and grows to 80% by #10,000, where it matches the trade-in an order carries. From about #5,900 onward, more of every order goes in the jar than to the kitchen. The rest keeps the kitchen running (see the fine print).

Happy Hour runs on that same inflow, so it gets steadily more generous as the share grows. At launch it takes about 100 paid orders to make 5 free, roughly one free order in 21. By #10,000 it takes about 12, closer to one in four.

Nothing is saved up to pay for Happy Hour. The contract simply keeps a running total of what has gone into the jar since the last Happy Hour: part of every paid order, and the 5% royalty from every resale. An order's share starts at 10% of its price and grows a little with every order after it, reaching 80% at #10,000 and staying there. Once that total reaches ten orders' worth at today's price, the next 5 orders aren't charged for, and the count starts again from zero. One wallet can take at most 2 of the 5, so no single miner sweeps a whole Happy Hour.

A free order costs the jar nothing: no ETH leaves it, and nobody is paid, the kitchen included. The order is simply not rung up, so the miner pays only the network fee. That ETH stays where it is, ready to pay trade-ins. Trade-ins paid out don't set the count back either, so hashbrowns going back never push the next Happy Hour further away.

Worth being precise about what the growing share does and doesn't mean. From #10,000 on, a new order puts in exactly what its own trade-in is worth. Orders before it put in less than theirs did, so the ETH on hand covers a share of everything that could be sent back, not all of it: about four fifths by #10,000, rising from there as later orders outnumber early ones. That is why the jar keeps a reserve and pays first come, first served, and why a trade-in is a way to leave rather than a promise about what a hashbrown is worth.

During the free launch there is no count and no Happy Hour: with orders costing nothing, there is nothing to make free. Royalties from trading still collect in the jar throughout, and they count from the first priced order, so the first Happy Hour usually lands within an hour of the free run ending. At the launch price of 0.001 ETH the count has to reach 0.01 ETH, which is about 100 paid orders, or 0.2 ETH of trading, or any mix of the two. The meter at the top of the page shows how far along it is; the jar further down shows the money itself.

Hashbrowns can only change hands through marketplaces that pay the royalty, which the contract checks on every transfer (ERC-721C). Sending one to your own wallet, or to a friend, always works.

The rate is 5%; the kitchen can change it, but never above 10%, which the contract enforces. The destination is hardcoded to the jar and can never be changed by anyone, the kitchen included.

If you paid for an order since the last Happy Hour, you need half as many guesses to land a Happy Hour order.

Jumbo 1 point, Family Size 2.5, Party Platter 6, any special +10. The more points you hold, the fewer guesses you need in Happy Hour: 1 point makes it 1.25× easier, a Party Platter about 1.6×, a special 1.8×, and 3× at most. Points that arrive by transfer wait an hour before they count.

Plain, regular-size hashbrowns that were paid for when mined carry a trade-in of 80% of that price. Send one back and the jar pays the trade-in and burns it. Resale prices don't count: one mined for 0.01 ETH always carries 0.008 ETH, whoever holds it. The jar only pays while it holds ten times one of them, so it always keeps a reserve. Connect your wallet to see the trade-in on each of yours.

The game aims for one new hashbrown about every 30 seconds, however many people are playing. After every 16 hashbrowns it checks: if they came faster, winning takes more guesses (up to twice as many); if slower, fewer. It never gets easier than the normal starting level for that point in the game.

Every hashbrown, whoever wins it, makes the next one take twice as many guesses for everyone, up to 65,536× after sixteen in a row. It sheds one step for every quiet gap: 15 seconds during the free launch, 30 after, measured from the last hashbrown won rather than from the clock. While wins keep landing every few seconds it doesn't shed at all, and can sit at its ceiling for as long as the crowd keeps winning. More wallets don't help, because it's one tally for the whole game. It doesn't stop anyone mining; it prices the pace, so a rush at launch or after a quiet spell costs what it's worth instead of handing out cheap ones.

Your own cooldown works the same way but only on you: each hashbrown you win doubles your next, up to 256×, so nobody sweeps a burst single-handed from one address. Unlike the kitchen rush, it can be spread by mining from several wallets — the rush still catches them, but this one doesn't. The "Kitchen right now" line in the fryer shows what the rush is costing at the moment.

Every 10 minutes without a hashbrown makes the next one one step easier, and another step for each further stretch of quiet, until it reaches the normal level for that point in the game. The game can never get stuck, and a lull can never hand out a pile of cheap ones at once.