What is Ruin?

What is ruin?

Ruin has been designed for the keen punter, who is looking for a challenge. Intended to challenge member against member, in a selection based arena, you will be putting your skill & knowledge of the horse racing industry to the test against your fellow members. Take the title of Ruin Tipster of the month and win prizes & gifts. Want to know how? Become a member, & enjoy the game, it’s free!
RUIN Game release date to be announced very soon, just finishing off the final touches!!

The Game

The basis of ruin is the leaderboard, which ranks members based on their skill, luck and magic stats (the ranking points are the skill, luck a magic points added together). Stats are won by making selections, and riches can be won in challenges and tournaments, which can be used to buy items from the gift shop. (Further increase your stats and ranking).

Selections

SelectionsSelections are the core aspect of the game and are made from the home page. Anyone who is registered and logged in can select for meetings up to 4 days in advance and acquire skill, luck and magic points for good selections. 

The selection cards & challenges are to be completed before the daily cut off time (11am E.S.T) for them to have effect in the days racing. Once the daily cut off time has elapsed, no challenges or selections past the cut off time will have any result for that days racing.

Points are awarded for the following selection results:

  • Correct selection in the first box = 10 points awarded to skill
  • Correct selection in the second box = 5 points awarded to skill
  • Correct selection in the third box = 2 points awarded to skill
  • 1st, 2nd or 3rd selections filling 1st, 2nd, or 3rd placing’ in the incorrect order = 1 point awarded to skill (e.g. 1st finishing 3rd)
  • Selecting first, second and third in the correct order in any race and then continuing on into the next race = 20 points awarded to magic for each consecutive selection until the sequence is broken
  • For correct selections in the 1st box and second box in the correct order = 15 points awarded to skill
  • For correct selections in the 1st box and second box in any order = 10 points awarded to luck
  • For correct selections in the 1st box, second box and third box = 30 points awarded to luck
  • For correct selections in the 1st box, second box and third box in any order = 20 points awarded to luck
  • If you chose double points for the race, the points are of course doubled accordingly.

Challenges

ChallengesChallenges build on the selections, by adding a personal element between members. Submitting a challenge against another RUIN member means you will need to out-select them in the race meeting set down for that challenge. Challenges to other members can be made on the leaderboard page and by clicking on the member name in the chat room.  The challenger must select two meeting options for the person you are challenging to choose from.

Once a challenge is made, the person challenged must respond to the challenge, by either accepting or declining on the home page and selecting the challenge meeting from the two options provided from the challenger.

Once the race results have been posted, the total difference in leaderboard points between the two members will be awarded as riches to the winning member.

Note: All challenges & responses must be completed before the daily cut off time (11am E.S.T) of the selection cards, for the challenge to take effect.

Tournaments

Tournaments work like tournaments from any other game: participants compete in the tournament against each other to win.  When there is a tournament being held, you will see a note on the homepage for at least a week beforehand where you can nominate to participate in the tournament.  Once you nominate for a tournament, you just have to wait for the tournament to begin and start selecting.

For every meeting that falls within a tournaments date range, you will earn riches equivalent to twice your selection points.  That means for a meeting where you earned 10 skill and 5 luck you will earn 30 riches in the tournament, and these winnings are used to determine your position in the tournament leaderboard.  The riches can be spent immediately without affecting your position on the tournament leaderboard.

Gift shop

Gift ShopOnce you have won some riches, you can buy items from the gift shop.
As noted above, your leaderboard ranking is based on your skill, luck and magic stats.  The gift shop is the way to convert your riches won in challenges and tournaments into skill, luck and magic points which will increase your leaderboard ranking.

The gift shop is accessible from your user profile page, or on the homepage.