We are back!

And not a moment too soon, this little software bug fix turned into a full blown hardware update due to some unexpected failures... But we're back and better than before underneath the hood.

All running games have been matched against all blocks that passed since we went down, and of course all of them ended. I'm pleased to say I didn't win everything

Thanks for everyone's patience, and let the betting begin... again!

Best of luck to all.

We are back!

It was a tale of pain and suffering, pretty much everything that could fail has done so, and Murphy would be oh, so proud. But things should now be almost completely back to normal. Almost because I'm leaving the payments in manual mode while I do a few more checks, but assuming nothing bad happens we will be back to full auto by tomorrow.

Thanks for all the patience, people, we really appreciate your support of DR!

Oh where to start... We're really close but we've had a few mishaps, including failed hardware in the process. This has been the most ridiculous database resync I've ever experienced, ever!

So close now...

Ok, so certainly everyone noticed we're not up yet... We're still here, and we're still waiting. I don't dare do any more predictions as to how long this will take but we're optimised the code as far as we could and and now I/O limited. We're fixing that too all the while the rebuild is in progress.

A little more patience is still required, sorry for he major inconvenience.

Everything is still in full lock down mode, apologies to everyone. The time scale involved forced me into hardware and system upgrades, and damn, the bitcoin blockchain is huge!

Hopefully this resync will complete tomorrow, but since my estimates have failed miserably thus far I'll just have to ask for a bit more patience. The problem is that the further we go into the blockchain, the more transactions there are to process which basically means my time estimation was biased towards smaller blocks of data. And we are supporting 5 different blockchains...

I will let everyone know once we return to normality, and again sorry for this mishap.

Never worry! It will be processed as if nothing had happened, only a bit later. Good luck!

Unfortunately I just found a bug in our chain processing code (not the DR code, but the one that stores all the blockchain data for use in our multiple services).

Nothing really major but still needs to be fixed asap, and given the volume of information it is going to take a few hours to do. All transactions will be processed once that's done.

Sorry about that, but it really must be done now.

Unfortunately I just found a bug in our chain processing code (not the game code, but the one that stores all the blockchain data for use in our multiple services).

Nothing really major but still needs to be fixed asap, and given the volume of information it is going to take a few hours to do. All bets will be processed once that's done.

Sorry about that, but it really must be done now.

Well, first off I'd like to thank everyone for the kind words. But I feel there's some disclosure lacking; this is one of the first bitcoin games created, and granted the original rules were different but still it hardly is a novelty. The problem is our skill lay on the technical development, not on the UI or advertisement, so the game lost all visibility when others began creating copies of copies of copies of games.

We also run a dice site, one that suffers from the same issues as TAABL, as in UI is less than perfect and we don't do any organised advertisement. On the other hand it is not a copy of any other dice game and has the needed edge to make it separate from everyone else (and yes, it is also several years old). We're finishing an upgrade on that one and you'll hear about it soon

It looks like it was just me and Tsquared again, but lo and behold... I did not win this time around!

Congrats to the winner of almost 1 BTC (though if that's really Tsquared most of it came from you anyway ), and lets get this ball running again, shall we?

I honestly thought the rules were simple enough, so sorry if it seems complicated.

Choose your game, you'll probably be looking at the Pick 4 in BTC since that's the one having a large pot. The address for the game is right next to the game name: 1Amn26jeimKzM22F66MHxYG3Q8hjE8XTCC

Each bet costs 0.001 (on Pick 4 specifically) so just send that or a multiple thereof to the address.

It really is that simple...

If there is something you don't understand it would help me if you could state exactly what you don't understand so I can fix that on the OP

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What do you mean "the site looks rough"? (honest question) Is is the plain looks or is the organisation of the information misleading?

Besides the OP here, there's also the How To Play page that has a very indepth explanation of the site's workings. That is confusing if you don't know what you are looking at, granted, so any help in making a simpler explanation is greatly appreciated... Should I put Tsquared rules in the OP? Would that help?

Yeah, the simplified rules sound correct, Tsquared.

As for me being lucky, I must say there's a first for everything... I usually lose my shirt on luck based games, to be honest, but maybe it's because I'm playing as the House, not as myself

I'll send the promised 100 bets now to Pick 4.

Pick 2 ended with me winning again, I have sent the resulting 0.638 to the Pick 4.

I'll wait for others to bet before I do any personal betting of my own, to avoid winning before people had a fair chance of placing their bets.

Well, they say we should respect everyone's opinion... But I'm curious, why do you say this lottery is really hard to win? Are you basing that on math (where any bet on the Pick 2 has 1 in 256 chances of winning) or just saying what you heard others say without really paying attention?

Lotteries are incredibly hard to win... state lotteries, that is. The odds are just crazy small, and the only reason prizes are anything to look at is because lots and lots of people bet on them. Of course, the only reason people bet on them is because the prizes are huge... full circle

But not our lottery, the odds are fair and the prizes are relatively low, but that shouldn't make it lose interest, it is a fun way to gamble.

This is starting to get interesting, that much is granted...

We should, however, probably move to the Pick 3 or even Pick 4, since I'm placing over 30% of the bet space for the Pick 2 with the accumulated seed and that'll likely match as soon as someone places a second bet (or in this case I'm the second bet).

With a Pick 3 there is a total bet space of 4096, and the 0.445 that I'm placing as bet will represent a little over 10% of the possible bets, slightly better. On top of that bets are cheaper.

A Pick 4 has a total bet space of 65536, so 0.445 will represent less than 1% AND there are 100 bets I already placed there previously (as a personal bet, no reseeds if I win from those ).

Since Tsquared is responsible for almost all the extra seed I'm betting back I'll delegate to him to decide if we should move to another game (assuming I win again, otherwise it's moot).

EDIT:
Nope, I had forgotten I already won the Pick 4 and reseeded with 10 bets. Ok, if we move to either Pick 3 or Pick 4 and that won't raise objections I'll add 100 personal bets on either, but if I win I'll keep the profits Full disclosure on the seed transactions so everyone always knows if the house wins.

It is true, I won once more. Bets on the way, good luck!

All you need to do is click refresh every once in a while We don't have auto updates to the pages (yet) and you will not receive a feedback transaction if you lose, since you placed less than the minimum bets for feedback on that particular game (4).

Also, if you lose, don't be discouraged as we'll keep betting all proceeds from this initial seeding we did until someone else takes the cake!

EDIT: And, of course, good luck!

Almost 0.37 BTC up for grabs at TAABL!

It was very popular when it first appeared, and kept being popular for a long time.

Part of the problem was that we never advertised outside the basic forum thread, and when we started we were alone, or almost. It was a novel idea and that has a pull.

But then the dice game fever came, TAABL kept on being popular but most people prefer the rapid feedback games. We also did our own dice game, but since we don't like to clone, we prefer to try new things, we did an automated strategy dice site, which is currently being updated and upgraded. But again we never advertised outside the forum threads.

So, if I had to guess, the problem is not the game itself but the fact 100 new games come out every week, clones of clones of clones, with shiny logos and add campaigns... wonder if we'll have to do the same thing?

Anyway, great to see you haven't given up on getting your bets back . I didn't bet the full bankroll on the last Pick2 by mistake, still have 11 bets to push, so I'll do that now. This time around you should get a transaction if winning (of course ) or losing, the latter of 5502 satoshis.

After thinking a bit about the feedback on bet lost issue, and even though that's going to take a large stab at the potential profit the house makes, I do think it is something that is needed otherwise people will just forget about the picks they've placed bets on.

I've made the following change to the payout system; If more than X bets are placed from the same address (same transaction always counts as 1 address, but multiple transactions using coin control and the same base address will also work) a feedback amount will be sent so signal a lost bet to that address.
The amount will depend on the currency, for BTC it is 5500 satoshis plus the number of digits matched in the particular pick, so 5502 for Pick 2.

I have only enabled this for Pick 2 in BTC, and the minimum bets is 4. This number makes sure we don't end up paying more than it was collected on the Pick.

All the other Picks will be updated to include feedback payments and you'll know that is enabled by the new column in the main page Pick list, left to the Complete column.