How to Play

Learn how to compete in Knockout.Global tournaments and become the ultimate champion.

Quick Start

Create Your Account

Add Funds

Deposit any of 50+ supported cryptocurrencies — automatically converted to USDC — to enter paid tournaments, or use Ghost Mode to practice for free.

Join a Tournament

Browse the tournament lobby, find a competition that suits your style, and enter.

Make Your Predictions

Choose your side in each round. Correct predictions keep you in the game!

Game Mechanics

Elimination Format

Each tournament consists of multiple rounds. In each round, you must make a binary prediction. If your prediction is correct, you advance to the next round. If not, you are eliminated.

Last One Standing Wins

The tournament continues until only one player remains. That player takes home the prize pool! If multiple players remain after a set number of rounds, the pot is split equally.

Each tournament’s exact dead-heat rules — the round cap and the consecutive-draw limit — are shown on its page, in the “How it works” section at the bottom.

Round Timer

Each round has a countdown timer — submit your prediction before it runs out. If you miss the window, your pre-set timeout strategy makes a pick for you (random by default), so you may be eliminated.

Prize Pool, Odds & House Fee

Knockout is a skill-and-prediction elimination game, not a slot machine — so there's no slot-style RTP percentage. Here's exactly how the money and the odds work:

Every entry fee goes into a shared prize pool. Knockout keeps a platform fee — 10% by default — and the rest of the pool is paid out to the winner(s). The exact entry fee and prize pool for each tournament are always shown before you join.

Each round is a genuine 50/50 call (heads or tails, red or black, odd or even, goal or save). Outcomes are produced by a certified random number generator and are provably fair.

Free-entry and Ghost Mode tournaments cost nothing to play and still award real prizes or Ghost Credits.

Verify any round yourself on the Provably Fair page

Entry Tickets & Feeder Tournaments

Some tournaments are feeders: instead of cash, winners receive an entry ticket to a bigger target event.

Win a feeder and your ticket appears in your wallet — it enters you into the target tournament’s next running, free.

No upcoming event scheduled yet? The ticket simply waits — check its expiry date in your wallet.

If the target tournament is cancelled or no longer offered, you don’t lose your prize: your wallet shows a Claim button for the ticket’s cash value (the target’s buy-in), paid to your real balance. Unclaimed tickets for retired events are refunded automatically at expiry.

Game Modes

Every Knockout tournament is built on one of four simple 50/50 picks. There is nothing to memorise — pick a side each round and keep advancing.

Coinflip

A coin is flipped each round. Pick heads or tails. If your side comes up, you advance.

HEADSorTAILS

Black or Red

A card is drawn from a fair shuffled deck. Pick red (hearts/diamonds) or black (spades/clubs). Match the colour to advance.

REDorBLACK

Dice

A six-sided die is rolled. Pick even (2, 4, 6) or odd (1, 3, 5). Match the parity to advance.

EVENorODD

Penalty Kick

The striker steps up. Will the keeper be beaten, or pull off the save? Call GOAL or SAVE — call it right to advance.

GOALorSAVE

Each round resets the odds — past picks do not influence the next outcome. Provably fair RNG; results are auditable from the Fairness page.

Tournament Variety

Range of Buy-Ins

Tournaments run across many entry-fee tiers — from free Ghost Mode games up to high-roller tables with bigger prize pools.

Free & Ghost Mode

Play for fun with Ghost Credits — no deposit needed. The best way to learn the game risk-free.

Varied Schedules & Sizes

New events run throughout the day with different round speeds, field sizes and prize pools.

Seasonal Leaderboards

Climb the global and weekly leaderboards across tournaments to compete for seasonal prizes.

Team Play

Some tournaments let you enter as a team instead of solo. Each teammate pays their own entry fee and plays their own game — but if any member of your team is the last one standing, the prize is split equally across the whole team.

Choose "Enter as Team", then invite friends you follow or invite people by email

Teams hold 2–11 players and lock shortly before the tournament starts

Every locked teammate shares the prize equally — even those eliminated early

Ghost Credits (GC)

Ghost Credits are your virtual currency for Ghost Mode tournaments. Earn them through gameplay and use them to enter ghost tournaments.

Earn GC by winning rounds and placing in tournaments

Use GC to enter Ghost Mode tournaments for free

Climb the leaderboard to compete for seasonal prizes

Ghost Mode

Eliminated from a tournament? You can continue playing in Ghost Mode. Ghost players keep making predictions for Ghost Credits (GC) but cannot win the main USDC prize.

Activate Ghost Mode after elimination to keep playing

Earn Ghost Credits based on correct predictions with a multiplier that grows each round

The Ghost Leaderboard tracks the best ghost performers across tournaments

The last player eliminated before the winner receives a bonus share of the ghost pool

Timeout Strategy

If you miss the prediction window during a round, your entry is resolved using your pre-set timeout strategy. You can configure this in your account settings:

Random — a random choice is made for you

Fixed — always pick the same side (e.g., always heads)

Sequence — cycle through a custom sequence of choices

Set your timeout strategy before the tournament starts so you stay in the game even if you lose connection.

Tips for Success

Start with free tournaments to learn the mechanics

Manage your bankroll - never bet more than you can afford

Watch the timer and make decisions before time runs out

Study patterns and develop your prediction strategy

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