Winning in Tiket: Prizes, Odds, and Confetti

Every tap of Try Your Luck is guaranteed to award a prize — there are no losing tickets in Tiket. However, the distribution of prize amounts is heavily skewed, so while you will always win something, truly large payouts are quite rare by design.

Prize Range

All prizes fall between $10** and **$ 1,000 inclusive. The value is calculated by getRandomInt() in script.js:

function getRandomInt() {
    const weightedRandom = Math.random() ** 5; // Raise to the 5th power so a large win is rare
    return Math.floor(weightedRandom * (1000 - 10 + 1)) + 10;
}

Math.random() produces a float between 0 and 1. Raising that value to the 5th power skews the distribution strongly toward 0 — for example, a raw value of 0.5 becomes just 0.03125 after exponentiation. This means the vast majority of tickets land in the lower end of the

10–

50 range, while prizes approaching $1,000 are extremely unlikely.

Prize Distribution

Common Outcomes
Rare Outcomes

Because the raw random number is raised to the 5th power before being scaled, the probability density is heavily concentrated near the minimum prize. In practical terms:

$10–$ 50 — the overwhelming majority of tickets fall in this band. A raw Math.random() value below 0.55 (which covers roughly 55% of all rolls) maps to a prize below $50 after the x⁵ weighting.
$50–$ 100 — noticeably less frequent, but still a common occurrence over a long session.
$100–$ 200 — occasional; you will see these periodically but they are not the norm.

These small wins accumulate quickly since every single ticket pays out, and the balance counter keeps a running total across the entire session.

High-value prizes require the raw random number to land close to 1 — a progressively unlikely event the higher you go:

$300–$ 499 — rare enough to feel notable; also the threshold that triggers the confetti celebration.
$500–$ 799 — uncommon; requires a raw roll above approximately 0.89.
$800–$ 999 — very rare; requires a raw roll above approximately 0.94.
$1,000 — the maximum prize; requires Math.random() to produce a value close enough to 1 that after raising to the 5th power the scaled result rounds to 1000. Since Math.random() never returns exactly 1, this is vanishingly rare but theoretically reachable.

The confetti animation (see below) serves as a built-in signal for when an above-average ticket has landed.

Confetti Celebration

Whenever a single ticket pays out $300 or more, the celebrate() function fires immediately after the prize is calculated:

function celebrate() {
    confetti({
        velocity: 300,
        count: 100
    });
}

This launches 100 confetti particles at a velocity of 300, powered by the @hiseb/confetti library loaded via CDN. The celebration triggers on the same click event that updates the balance, so the confetti burst and the balance animation play together.

Balance Display

After every ticket, two things happen to the on-screen numbers:

Balance update — the cumulative balance is recalculated with (+balance) + moneyWon and written back to the #money element using balance.toLocaleString(), which formats the number according to the user’s locale (for example, 1,234 in en-US or 1.234 in de-DE).
Pop animation — the balance figure briefly plays a CSS pop keyframe animation: letter-spacing expands and the text turns yellow, then snaps back, all within 200 ms. The class is added and then removed via setTimeout to allow replaying on every tap.

@keyframes pop {
    0%   { letter-spacing: 1px; color: rgb(213, 213, 0); }
    50%  { letter-spacing: 5px; color: rgb(213, 213, 0); }
    100% { letter-spacing: 1px; color: rgb(213, 213, 0); }
}

The Amount Won display beneath the balance is also updated with toLocaleString() so both numbers always use consistent locale-aware formatting.

Since the balance accumulates across all tickets in a session, keep tapping — even small wins add up quickly. There is no cost per ticket, so the only direction your balance ever moves is up.

Overview

Playing the Game

Under the Hood

Winning in Tiket: Prizes, Odds, and Confetti

Prize Range

Prize Distribution

Confetti Celebration

Balance Display

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Overview

Playing the Game

Under the Hood

Documentation Index

​Prize Range

​Prize Distribution

​Confetti Celebration

​Balance Display

Build docs developers (and LLMs) love

Prize Range

Prize Distribution

Confetti Celebration

Balance Display