How Speed Survivor works

One game, twelve questions

Pick a contest tied to a real NFL game and enter before it locks at kickoff. Once the game starts, every entrant sees the same question at the same time: a yes-or-no about what happens next in the live event within a set window. "Will the Bills score on this drive?" "Does the next play go for ten yards or more?" Questions are generated from live game conditions, the score, the clock, possession, momentum, player performance, so nobody can prepare an answer in advance and everybody is answering the same thing under the same timer.

There are twelve of them across the game, roughly one every five minutes of game clock. That is the whole entry. No lineup to build, no odds to read, no parlay to construct.

Speed points: right and fast

A correct answer earns a base amount of points plus a speed bonus. The bonus is larger the faster you answer correctly, and it shrinks as the window runs down. A wrong answer earns nothing, and in a single-life format it ends your run for that contest.

So there are two ways to climb the leaderboard: know the game, and trust what you know quickly. The players who win are not the ones who wait to see how a drive develops; they are the ones who read the situation and commit.

Cuts and lives

Contests come in two survival formats, and the contest page always says which one you are in.

• Single-life. One wrong answer eliminates you. Eliminated entrants stop accruing points from that moment; the points already banked still count for placement.
• Multi-life. You start with a set number of lives. Each wrong answer costs one. Lose them all and you are out.

On top of that, the field is thinned at set points in the game. At each cut the bottom of the field is removed and stops scoring. At launch there is a single cut at halftime, and the format is moving toward a cut at the end of each quarter. Survive to the final whistle and you are in the group that gets paid.

The split

Every paid contest has a prize pool funded by the entries in that contest and held by a third-party custodian. Speed Labs may add prizes on top of what the entries put in. When the game ends, the entrants still standing are ranked by points and the pool is paid out down a ladder of tiers that is shown on the contest page before you enter. First place takes the largest share, then second, then third, then a wider band of smaller cashes. Ties split the combined prizes for the positions they occupy.

It settles the same night. The recap of who won and what was paid is in the app, on the Discord, and on the recaps page.

No house

Speed Survivor is not a sportsbook. Speed Labs sets the question, never a price, and takes no position in any contest. You are not playing against the company; you are playing against the other entrants, and the pool you are competing for is the pool they funded. There are no odds to beat and no line to move. What separates the field is knowledge of the game and speed of judgment, which is why it is a skill-based contest and is described that way in the contest rules.

The Perfect 36

Thirty-six correct answers in a row, which is three full games without a miss, wins the grand prize of $3,600,000. Opting in is free and happens once. After that, every question you answer in a paid-entry contest counts toward your run. The three games do not have to be one weekend.

The Perfect 36 grand prize is $3,600,000 paid as a thirty-year annuity of $120,000 a year, which is its total value and not its present cash value.

Full rules are at app.speedsurvivor.com/perfect-36-rules.

Who can play, and where

Speed Survivor is open to players 18 and over, or 21 and over where a state requires it, in the states where skill contests of this kind are permitted. Availability varies by state and the current list is on the where-to-play page. Entry starts at $20 and some contests are free to enter; free contests are available weekly.

Getting in

Download the app, sign up with code SPEED, and pick tonight's game. The code unlocks the first-deposit match, the referral credit and the free Perfect 36 opt-in; the promo code page explains each one. If a term on this page is new to you, the glossary defines every one of them.