The Countdown Curve
The fuller the pot, the shorter the fuse. Shown is the canonical Ether game — it arms at Ξ1, bends at the knee (Ξ21), and bottoms out at full (Ξ42), where the fuse is as short as it gets. Donations into one round are capped (Ξ41 here) so a whale can't fill the pot and choke off ticket sales — anything over the cap rolls into the next round. Every game uses this same shape, rescaled. The purple dot is your round right now.
your pot sits at—