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Browser game: winner claims the pot over Lightning. Does the click feel fair?

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Earlier this week we shared Clixel in ~gaming. This one is only about the payout side, because it took longer to get right than the game did, and we'd like critique from people who run Lightning in production.

The setup:
- Each win creates one single-use LNURL-withdraw on LNbits, shown to the winner as a QR. Guests can claim too, so there's no account between the win and the wallet.
- The winner scans it with Phoenix, Zeus, Wallet of Satoshi, or any wallet that handles withdraw links.
- Withdraw links expire after 15 minutes. Winners are already cashing out over Lightning this way.

Things we're unsure about:
1. How long do you keep a withdraw link valid before expiring it?
2. Which wallets have given you trouble with withdraw links?

The player side, if you want to see the flow: https://clixel.io/play


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Paying game winners with LNURL-withdraw on LNbits: how we set it up

Hey stackers, we're the team behind Clixel.

Everyone shares one grid with one fast-moving white pixel. Every missed click adds 0.01 sats to a shared pot. The first person to click the pixel takes it, and the winner claims the sats over Lightning by scanning a QR with Phoenix, Zeus, or Wallet of Satoshi.

Nobody pays anything. The pot is built only from everyone's misses, and ads and sponsors cover that, not players. Guests can play without signing up, and a guest who wins can claim. Autoclickers get banned.

Winners are already cashing out over Lightning.

Built with Lovable on the front end, Supabase behind it, and LNbits paying out over LNURL-withdraw.

What we'd love to hear:
- Does the click feel fair, or does latency decide it?
- Did the claim QR work with your wallet? Which one?
- What confused you in the first 30 seconds?

Have a Lightning wallet ready before you play: https://clixel.io/play

![](https://m.stacker.news/161538)

Design

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Been building Clixel for a while now. It's a competitive browser-based clicking game that rewards real humans with sats, funded by video ad revenue.

The core problem I'm solving: every "earn crypto by playing" game out there is flooded with bots, fake engagement, and worthless point systems. Clixel is built to fix that:

- No account needed, just click the link and play
- Rewards are actual sats, not points or tokens
- Anti-bot detection runs on every session (accuracy patterns, timing signals, behavioral heuristics)
- Short sessions, designed for the gaps in your day
- Revenue comes from rewarded video ads, so the sats pool grows as more players join

This community understands why money-as-signal beats fake internet points better than anyone. That is exactly the mechanic Clixel is built on.

Looking for brutal feedback:
- Does the gameplay feel sticky enough to return to?
- What Lightning-native mechanics would make this worth your time daily?
- Any obvious exploits you spot while playing?

No fluff, just a live experiment. Try it, break it, and tell me what sucks.

I built a browser game that pays you sats – try it, no signup needed

I built a “reaction-time” Lightning game you can play in 30 seconds and win sats

Thanks for these comments. The game is intended to house hundreds or even thousands of players trying to catch the pixel at the same time. This means way higher pots and shorter rounds. Hope this keeps more people coming back to try and hit the big one. I love the extensions you came up with, definately room for things like that if this gains traction.

Thanks for these notes. Really appreciate it. The app can handle 100s-1000s of players at the same time, so the intention is that in the future the pots will be much higher from all the users clicking at once. Rounds will be fast as the area the lightning pixel has to bounce around shrinks with all the dead pixels making it easier to catch. Still early days, thanks!

I’ve been experimenting with tiny browser games that let you win or lose real sats in under a minute.

The latest experiment is a reaction-time challenge built around a single “lightning pixel”:

* A lightning pixel flies across the screen
* You have to click the lightning pixel as fast and as accurately as possible
* The game measures your reaction time and precision, then rewards it

Why I built it:

* I want Lightning games that feel like fidget toys, not full sessions
* It’s a way to test UX patterns for instant pay/receive in games
* I’m curious how people behave when each click has economic weight

If you’re up for stress‑testing your nervous system (and my code), here’s what I’m looking for from stackers:

* Does the latency feel fair for you (desktop vs mobile)?
* Do the sats at stake feel too low, too high, or “just right size”?
* Any ideas for power‑ups, streaks, or “seasonal leagues” that would make you come back?

Link: clixel.io/play

If you manage to catch the lightning pixel, post a screenshot and your score in the comments so we can set some informal world records.

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Built a Lightning game where you chase a moving pixel to win real sats ⚡

Not even for a change to win 500,000 sats?

Hey everyone,

I built a game called **Clixel** and wanted to share it here since you're the right audience.

The goal is simple: a pixel moves around the screen and you have to click it before anyone else does. Every time someone misses, the sats pot grows. Every time you hit it, you win what's in the pot and it resets. Fast, competitive, and surprisingly addictive.

It's free to play and payouts go straight through Lightning. 

The fun part is that the more people playing, the faster the pot grows. So if you like it, tell your friends, share it in your group chats, post it in your communities. Bigger crowd means bigger prizes for everyone.

Would love to get some stackers in there. Brutal feedback welcome, still early days.

👉 clixel.io/play