Gauntlets
Gauntlets is an NFT roguelike. Each run, you draw a hand of your NFTs and battle through encounters using a project-versus-project weakness system. String together three wins without a loss for a sweep.
The Run
- Each run draws a hand of 6 eligible NFTs from your collection.
- Pick an NFT to send into each encounter against an opponent NFT.
- Win and you continue; 3 wins without a loss = a sweep (the best possible result).
- A loss ends the run.
- NFTs you've already played in an unrewarded run are excluded from future hands that week, so you rotate through your collection.
Matchups (Weakness Chain)
Win chance is driven by a circular weakness chain among the six core projects:
6 beats 1 · 5 beats 2 · 4 beats 3 · 2 beats 4 · 1 beats 5 · 3 beats 6
- Strong matchup (you beat the opponent's project): 70% win chance.
- Weak matchup (opponent beats yours): 30% win chance.
- Neutral (same project, or a Diamond Skull is involved): 50%.
- Partner NFTs act as wildcards, mapping to a random core project for the matchup.
Consumables
Before an encounter resolves, you can play consumables (see Consumable Items):
- 100% / 75% / 50% / 25% Success add +4% / +3% / +2% / +1% win chance.
- Fast Forward swaps your chosen NFT for another card in your hand.
- Double Rewards doubles the points reward for that encounter.
- Random Reward redirects the encounter's reward to a random project's points.
Scoring & Rewards
- Each win pays 100 points.
- The weekly leaderboard ranks by sweeps first, then total wins, then fewest losses.
- The weekly pool is 25,000 CARBON, divided down the rankings by rank and convertible to DIAMOND at 100:1. See Crafting.
