SCRATCH-OFF TYCOON

Every coin you win, you rub off the foil yourself.

SCRATCH-OFF TYCOON is a free browser game about a night kiosk and a coin that wears down. Buy a scratch card and rub it with your coin. Every rub spends the coin: a plain coin clears only about half of a Gold or Platinum card, so every card is a small puzzle about where to spend it.

How a card works

• Rub a corner of a cell and it glints its colour: red is a cherry or a skull, gold is a bell or a crown, blue is a star or a gem, grey is a blank.
• Rub half the cell away and the symbol is revealed.
• Three of a kind pays. Four pays double. Every revealed skull halves the card.
• A cherry pays 4, a bell 7, a star 11, a gem 20 and a crown 34, times the card's multiplier.

So you peek, you read the colours, and you spend the rest of the coin on the cells most likely to pay. A careful player and a lucky one play the same card very differently.

The kiosk

• Five tickets: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and the Golden Ticket, which wins the game.
• A coin workshop with four upgrades: a harder coin that wears slower, earlier glints, a wider coin, and a charm that strikes off the first skull (two at level II).
• An album of twenty stamps. A full row adds 25% to every payout on that tier.
• Run the till dry and the kiosk closes for the night. You reopen with a small float and keep every upgrade, stamp and unlocked ticket.

Plays anywhere

• Mouse, touch or keyboard: arrows move the coin, hold Space to rub, C cashes in, Tab walks the buttons, Esc opens the menu.
• A wide layout for desktop and a tall layout for a phone held upright.
• Saves in your browser after every card, and Continue picks up mid scratch.

No real money is involved anywhere. It is a game about scratch cards, not a gambling product.

Paid, from the same studio

• DOWSER ($9.99): Minesweeper with no numbers; sweep a dowsing rod, read the ground by hand, dig the relics and leave the shells.
• GLASSWRIGHT ($9.99): run a medieval glassworks, where every window you complete is drawn by the game.
• MILLWRIGHT ($5.99): raise three windmills so every farm's cart has the shortest road.

Credits and disclosure. Made by Core Systems Asset Factory. Code and text were written with AI assistance. Every picture in the game is drawn by code written for it; the cover illustration was made with an image model. The music and the sound effects are synthesised by code, with no generative audio model. Type: Bowlby One SC and IBM Plex Sans Condensed, both under the SIL Open Font License.

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