Rules

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Teams
12
Horses
36
Races
12
Dice per lap
4d6
3 laps per race

The field

12 teams, identified by color. Each team enters 3 horses (A, B, C), and each team has its own pool of flavor names — three of which are drawn at random per tournament. The team color is the visual key everywhere in this app.

That's 36 horses total. They race 6 at a time across 12 races.

The brackets

The 12 races are divided into 4 brackets:

Initial Heats
Races 1–6 · 6 races
Top 3 advance
36 → 18 horses
Qualifiers
Races 7–9 · 3 races
Top 4 advance
18 → 12 horses
Semi-Finals
Races 10–11 · 2 races
Top 3 advance
12 → 6 horses
Finale
Race 12 · 1 race
Winner decided
6 → 1 (champion)

Initial Heats are shuffled so no two horses from the same team race each other. From the Qualifiers onward, team pairings are allowed — the field is filled by the previous bracket's top finishers.

How a race resolves

Each horse rolls 4d6 per lap × 3 laps. Highest total over the three laps wins; positions 2, 3, … are filled by the next-highest totals.

On the Run Race page the DM can either type physical-dice totals into each cell or hit Auto-roll entire race to let the app roll all 72d6 at once (6 horses × 4d6 × 3 laps). Either way the lap totals are logged on the race result.

Horses with an active wager on them can't be auto-rolled by the DM — the dice icon next to those rows is disabled so the player rolls physical dice and the DM types the result. Bulk auto-roll actions (entire race or all empty cells in a lap) still work and will prompt for confirmation if any bet-backed horses would be rolled by the app.

Bet types & odds

1:1.5
Advance
A specific horse finishes high enough to advance from its race.
Available every race
1:4
Win Race
A specific horse comes first in a specific race.
Available every race
1:10
Team Finale
A chosen team has the eventual Finale winner. Locks the moment Race 1 begins.
Pre-tournament only
1:30
All The Way
A specific horse wins the entire tournament. Settles as a loss the moment that horse fails to advance.
Pre-tournament only

Payouts are quoted as 1:odds. A 10gp stake at 1:4 returns 40gp in winnings on top of the stake. Team Finale and All The Way bets lock the moment Race 1 begins — get them in early.