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Ten skill games, one ladder, prizes decided by how well you play

Tinta Arena is a browser competition floor. Pick a title, learn its scoring, then climb a ladder where the only variable that moves you up is your own performance. Nothing here is drawn, spun or rolled.

10 titles in rotation Ladder resets every Monday Prize splits published before entry

Arena at a glance

10

Titles in the current rotation, across karts, drifting, sports duels, puzzles, word play and shooters.

Weekly

The ladder wipes to zero every Monday at 00:00 AEST, so a bad week never follows you into the next one.

24 h

Target review window for a cashout request on business days, including the one-time identity check.

18+

Minimum entry age for prize matches, and only from places where skill contests of this kind are allowed.

Skill is the only currency we accept

You bring practice, the arena turns it into standing. Competition is the fairest monetisation there is: it puts the quality of play first and pays out against a table everyone can read before committing a cent. Everything runs in the browser — no download, no store account, and no mechanic here whose outcome is settled by chance.

  • Identical conditions — both sides of a duel start from the same seed, map and clock.
  • Replays kept — recordings stay on file, so a disputed result can actually be checked.
  • Fixed splits — who gets what is on the bracket page before the first entry lands.
Cartoon squid mascot lifting a trophy while gold tokens rain down

The arena floor

Six of the ten titles in rotation. Hit Play to start a round right here in the page, or open a game’s own page for the full rules, controls and prize structure.

All 10 games
Kart battle Smash Karts cover art

Smash Karts

3 min rounds · 8 players

Weapon pickups and map control decide the frag count. Placement points scale with kills, not laps.

Sandbox arena Bloxd.io cover art

Bloxd.io

5 min rounds · Open lobby

Build, parkour and survival modes in one block world. Ladder runs on the timed parkour mode only.

Drift racing Drift Hunters cover art

Drift Hunters

2 min runs · Solo score

Points come from angle, speed and chain length. One clipped wall resets the multiplier to nothing.

Sports duel Basket Random cover art

Basket Random

First to 5 · 1v1

One-button physics basketball. The court changes every point, so reading the bounce beats memorising it.

Sports duel Soccer Random cover art

Soccer Random

First to 5 · 1v1

Same one-button rules on a football pitch. Timing the jump matters more than where you stand.

Merge arena Cubes 2048.io cover art

Cubes 2048.io

4 min rounds · Open lobby

Merge your snake upward while avoiding bigger numbers. Greed and patience are both punished eventually.

The weekly ladder

Every finished match awards ladder points against your placement. Monday morning the table resets and the previous top seeds carry into the weekend bracket.

Read the scoring

Ask Inka anything

Our arena host answers the practical questions on the spot — entry fees, match formats, what a cashout actually takes, which title suits the time you have.

From a first round to a paid-out result

Three moves, and the rules for each one are fixed before you commit anything.

Scoring in detail
Pick a title and practise free

Pick a title and practise free

Practice rounds are unlimited and cost nothing. Use them to learn the scoring rules, because every game on the floor rewards something slightly different.

Enter a match on a stated split

Enter a match on a stated split

Each bracket lists its entry, its field size and exactly how the pool divides across finishing places. Both sides start on identical conditions and the replay is kept on file.

Bank it or reinvest it

Bank it or reinvest it

Winnings land in your arena balance. Cash out to your chosen method, or roll the balance into a higher bracket where the field is tougher and the split is wider.

Questions we get most

The four that come up before every first deposit. The rest are on the FAQ page.

All questions

Is this gambling?

No. Every result on this site is produced by player performance inside a game of skill — there is no wheel, no card draw and no random number deciding who is paid. Two entrants in a duel receive the same starting conditions, and the finishing order comes from what each of them does with those conditions.

That distinction matters legally as well as ethically, which is why we publish prize splits in advance and keep match replays available for review.

Who can enter a prize match?

Entrants must be 18 or over and located somewhere that permits paid skill contests. Some states and territories treat entry-fee competitions differently from one another, so the eligibility check runs when you register rather than when you try to cash out — nobody should discover a problem after they have already won something.

What does a match cost?

Practice is free and unlimited. Prize brackets carry a stated entry, and the whole of it goes into that bracket’s pool — the figure and the split are on the bracket page before you commit. Low brackets exist specifically so a new player can test a format without much on the line.

How is placement scored?

Each title has its own metric: frags in Smash Karts, chained drift angle in Drift Hunters, board score under a move limit in Tower Swap, round wins in the Random duels. Your result is converted into ladder points relative to the rest of the field in that bracket, so a strong run against strong opponents is worth more than a strong run against nobody.

What players tell us

Collected from the post-match survey we send after a bracket closes.

Been playing Drift Hunters for years on other sites, and this is the first place where my score actually meant something at the end of the week. The split was on the page before I entered, which is all I really wanted.

Marcus D.2 July 2026

The Monday reset sounded annoying until I lived through a bad week. Starting level again is the reason I still open the site instead of writing the whole thing off.

Priya N.9 July 2026

Basket Random in a bracket is far more tense than it has any right to be. My one gripe is that I want more sports titles in the rotation — four duels is not enough for me.

Tom W.16 July 2026

I contested a Shell Shockers result and someone actually watched the replay and came back to me with a reason. That has never happened to me on a competitive site before.

Elena K.21 July 2026

Words of Wonders on a timer with money on it turns a relaxing puzzle into something else entirely. First cashout took a day because of the ID check, then the second one was quick.

Ruth A.26 July 2026

Tower Swap under a move limit is the most honest puzzle scoring I have seen — you cannot brute force it. Would like a proper practice mode with the bracket board visible.

Daniel F.1 August 2026

I asked the chat host three fairly awkward questions about eligibility and got straight answers instead of being pushed towards a signup button. That earned the deposit.

Sione T.4 August 2026

Seeding from recent results is the detail nobody advertises but everybody feels. My second week put me against people at my level and the games got genuinely good.

Chloe M.8 August 2026

Get in touch

Leave a name and an email address and we will come back to you. Rules questions, a contested result, a title you want added to the rotation, a press enquiry — all of it lands in the same inbox and a person reads it.

  • Replies usually go out within one business day, Monday to Friday, Australian Eastern time.
  • For a contested match, mention the game and roughly when you played — that is enough for us to find the replay.
  • Quick questions are faster through Inka in the corner of the page.

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