What sounds better, a full refund if no payouts have been made, or enabling a feature like end-of-the-round sniping, where the remaining pool is split with the last player instead of the entirety of the remaining players?

Quick round games have a dependance on users BEING there when they are announced, no good to someone who only checks in once in a while.. the best uptake is games announced ahead of time... like 12 noon or 8 pm or whatever... the day before. That way you know and can be ready and so forth. Some of us really like gambling, but this is the first time I've seen your post.

Only one player, this should be treated as a fresh round!

It doesnt matter how high it is.
The higher the difficulty, the higher the price.
The lower the difficulty, the lower the price.


Fjordbit:

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If the rate of difficulty change goes above this amount (36.2%) and all other things stay equal, then it will stop making sense to purchase systems and instead it makes more sense to buy bitcoins. This will drive up the price of bitcoins, lowering the btc per MH/s cost for a mining rig. It is possible the difficulty could fall if people come offline, but this is doubtful as it will still make sense to run an existing system.

If the rate of difficulty change goes below this point and all other things stay equal, then it will stop making sense to buy bitcoins and instead it makes more sense to buy a system. With more people coming online, this will push up the difficulty level.

If the exchange rate of usd to btc goes up and all other things stay equal, then the btc cost of MH/s goes down, and it makes more sense to mine than buy. With more people coming online, this will push up the difficulty level.

If the exchange rate of usd to btc goes down and all other things stay equal, then the btc cost of MH/s goes down, and it makes more sense to buy than mine. This will slow the difficulty rate.

If the dollar cost of a mining rig goes down, it makes more sense to mine than buy. This could have the effect of lowering the btc exchange rate or increasing difficulty or both.

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http://forum.bitcoin.org/index.php?topic=20219.0

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yeeehah!
 

I don't understand how this game is financed…  Are you saying that all players except the last one receive 2 × their payment, and then on top of that there's Next in Line, Lucky Loser and Last Player?

Please someone explain this to me.

Cheers,

Cool, let's see if these rules are not too complicated. Basically it's the same game as all the others, except that this one has 3 kinds of Bonuses/Jackpots to make it a little bit more interesting...