Diving into Arcade Colony with Stake House Den

Hello Hello Hivians

For four years now I have been absolutely loving Hive! It's fantastic to truly own my content in this vibrant Web3 ecosystem, and I've been hooked on some incredible games like Splinterlands, Rising Star, dCity and Moon Kart just to name a few especially those built by seasoned developers who truly understand game creation!

What does "Web3" mean for you?

It means you're not just a player ~ you're an owner!
Web3 games put power in your hands, allowing you to own and even help govern parts of the game and its economy. This all happens on a secure, transparent digital ledger, where your game progress and tokens live.

So over the weekend I was reading some posts, triggered by one from @thebighigg and another from Hive's very own game tutorial master @libertycrypto27 which pointed me to this tweet or post on X.

https://x.com/arcadecolony/status/1948372562347503719

Stakehouse Den is a "Social Casino".

Meaning you play exciting games of chance without needing to put down any "consideration" (real money bets). But here's the best part: you'll still be rewarded with valuable Colony tokens!

Invennium Corp, a subsidiary of the popular game Splinterlands, is behind Stakehouse Den.

Once I heard that I was in. They're leveraging the robust Arcade Colony platform, which boasts its own thriving economy powered by a governance token called Colony and a stablecoin known as Script.

To kick things off, Stakehouse Den is seeking 80 million Colony tokens from the Arcade Colony DAO for a five-year period. In return, they're bringing eight thrilling games of chance to the platform! The first three games you can look forward to are Roulette, Video Blackjack, and Slots, with Video Poker planned as the fourth, and more exciting titles to follow.

The white paper.

If you are like me with whitepapers, then you will read through it after you have invested your time and money into something!

But it is actually quite useful to have a read through first as it gives you the gist of what is going on quite well.

Or you read it here or even download as a pdf...

Arcade Colony

It all starts here... Head on over to https://arcadecolony.com/

And choose your game ...

As I mentioned earlier the fact that these guys have been around the block, in this case the Hive blockchain made me want to dive in!

Get ready spin, deal, and win in a whole new way – where fun meets true ownership!

It's all about the luck

Well in the case of Stake House Den we get our cards to stake from Lady Luck packs...

I decided to buy some packs through Arcade Colony itself, just head to the market.

Before I bought the packs I did pick up some $SCRIPT from Tribaldex. However I found out later from @thebighigg often $SCRIPT and $COLONY can be cheaper on beeswap ... So shop around first!

I then saw that if you used Flux you have a slightly better chance of pulling a gold or even a legendary card...

So I then filled up on flux which you can purchase with credits. It is all straight forward.

If I can do it then anyone can!

Some of my cards

You can see that I had a good haul and even pulled a gold legendary joker...

My luck was in!

This is price of one listed on the market ... $349 👀

Actually my luck was in even before I opened the packs.

I discovered that I had purchased some CENTAURI packs to play MOON KART ages ago but never opened them!

So I sold some and it funded my Stake House Den journey!

Staking your cards give you Hot Sauce ...

This is all done via the menu, you just select ... REFRIGERATOR ...

Funnily enough whenever I see it I am reminded of the American Footballer called William Perry who was nicknamed The Refridgerator.

This is where you can unstake and stake your cards which are NFTs...

Do you see the claim button ...?

Let's be daredevils and fluffing push it!!!

I claimed 14.74 Hot Sauce!

This is what we use to stake at the games ...

Follow me to a blackjack table ....

Stake 4 Hot Sauce for this example for you ...

I draw another card ..

I am sitting pretty on 16, the dealer has 2, now most if not all blackjack players will tell you to Stay on 16, make the dealer draw, remember they have to keep drawing to at least 17.

The odds are that this dealer will draw more cards and go bust ...

I love it when a plan comes together!

Winner Winner Chicken Dinner...

Rewards and Leaderboard

Earlier on I checked the leaderboard...

I have no idea how but I was 4th...

I have added to my card pile and I have staked SCRIPT and COLONY, it helps with your rewards multiplier...

☑️I am addicted this is a very fun game!

A wee word of thanks

Thank you to everyone that makes my time so much fun here on Hive.

I am a firm believer that if that something is fun you will keep doing it again and again. For any newcomers here, then I urge you to make meaningful engagement, it then becomes fun and you will grow your account.

Let's keep rocking Hive!