If you play

Tell us which country you are in before you can earn.

It decides whether a trophy can be turned into money where you live. Finding that out when you try to cash one is the worst possible moment — this way you know before you win.

Nothing counts until all 3 setup steps are done — no points, no trophies, no challenge entries.

We will not promise you a balance before we know whether we are allowed to pay you. Anything you earned before we started asking is safe and untouched, and finishing takes about a minute.

A challenge is joinable as soon as it is announced, but nothing you play counts until it starts.

You can enter early without racing early. Everybody is measured from the same moment, so somebody who joined on announcement day has no head start on you.

One account per challenge, and it has to be a game account you have proved is yours.

It is the only thing that stops one person entering five times and taking a prize you were second to.

A challenge pays up to 10 places, and the ones that pay are shown before you enter.

You should know whether coming fourth is worth anything before you spend a week on it.

There is a ceiling on how many points anyone can earn in a day.

It is the reason the points are still worth something in six months. Without it, the people who grind hardest devalue what everybody else has already earned.

A trophy is yours permanently and appears on your profile. Turning it into money is a separate step.

The trophy is the thing you keep. Cashing out is optional, and it opens at 18 because that is the age at which we are allowed to pay somebody.

If you are in the United States and we pay you more than $2,000 in a year, we have to report it.

Said here rather than in a surprise form at the moment you try to collect.