SNUFFWICK
the ring
buy SNUFFWICK

The brightest lamp goes out first.

Twenty-four lamps stand in a ring. Pour $SNUFFWICK onto any of them. At the cutoff a lamp burning as high as a lit neighbour gutters out — and the ones still lit split the pot.

pot
—
no round yet

How the ring works

  1. Pour. Pick one of the 24 lamps and put SNUFFWICK on it. A lamp's flame is everything on it, from everyone. It earns from the second it lands.
  2. The cutoff. Every lamp is read once. A lamp keeps burning only if every lit neighbour holds strictly more fuel than it does. Level with a neighbour and you both go out. Two dark neighbours and you are safe at any height.
  3. The bell. The lamps still lit split the pot by fuel-hours — fuel times the seconds it sat there — minus 3% to the house. If the whole ring gutters, nobody is paid and the pot carries whole into the next round.

Worth saying plainly: piling onto the popular lamp is how you kill it, and a dozen wallets spread round the ring just light each other's neighbours.