How to Play

Everything you need to know about Voting Machine

Welcome

Voting Machine is a real-time voting layer for the world. You vote on events that actually matter — national elections, world cup finals, film openings, climate summits, your state’s governor race, your city’s next mayor — and see, live, how humanity voted at every scale.

Coins are your voting currency — free, play-money, zero purchase required. You start with 100,000 Coins. Stronger conviction = bigger stake = more weight in the tally. Get it right, your balance grows. Get it wrong, it shrinks. Simple.

You don't need to be an expert. The best voters follow the news, trust their gut, and know their local ground truth better than any TV panel does.

Getting Started

Create your account

Receive your starting Coins

You'll instantly get 100,000 Coins (Ⓒ100,000) in your wallet to start making predictions.

Pick your scope

Choose the level you want to vote at — Global, your Country, your State, or your City. The same app lets you weigh in on a world war and your neighborhood's next MLA without switching tools.

Browse events

Explore live events across Politics, Sports, Cricket, Entertainment, Crypto, Economics, and more. Filter by category and language.

Cast your first vote

Pick an event, choose the outcome you believe in, set your stake, and vote. You're in.

Scope — Where You Vote

Every event on Voting Machine lives at a specific scope. This is how we fight the two failure modes of every other polling product: either it's too global to feel like yours, or it's too local to matter.

Global

World events everyone has a stake in — wars, climate summits, World Cup finals, Olympics, tech launches. Everyone can vote, everyone counts equally.

Country

National stories for a specific country — general elections, national cricket, federal policy, national box office.

State / Province

State-level politics and stories — gubernatorial races, state assembly elections, regional ballots, local-league sport.

City

Hyperlocal — a mayoral election, a council vote, a derby match, a venue closing. If you live there, your vote hits different.

Regional languages are first-class. Votes are written natively in the language you argue in — English, plus growing support for Hindi, Spanish, Arabic, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Bengali, and more.

How Events Work

Each event is a question about something real that resolves by a specific date — "Will the incumbent win the 2028 US presidential election?", "Will Bitcoin close above $150k by year end?", "Will the next FIFA World Cup final go to penalties?"

Every event has two or more outcomes. Each outcome shows an odds between 0% and 100% — the live, crowd-weighted probability based on how everyone is voting right now.

The odds always add up to roughly 100% across all outcomes. "70%" means the crowd currently thinks there's about a 70% chance that outcome wins.

Odds update in real time as people vote. More weight on one side pushes that outcome's odds up; people changing their vote pulls it back down. A market-maker keeps the math fair and liquidity smooth.

Casting Your Coin

When you find an event you have an opinion on, here's how to vote:

Open the trading panel

Click on any event to see its outcomes and the trading panel.

Pick your outcome

Select the outcome you believe will happen. Each outcome shows its current odds (probability).

Set your coins

Choose how many coins to spend. The panel shows how many shares you'll receive and your potential payout if correct.

Confirm

Hit the vote button. Your shares are added to your portfolio and you can track them on the Portfolio page.

The cost per share increases as more people buy the same outcome. Getting in early on a correct prediction means better returns!

Changing Your Vote

Opinions change as the story develops. You can pull your shares back at any time while the event is still open — useful if the news flips, or you just want to lock in gains before resolution.

How it works

Open any event where you hold shares and switch to the Withdraw tab.
Choose how many shares to withdraw — all, or just some.
The current odds determine what your shares are worth at that moment. If the crowd has moved in your favor since you voted, you come out ahead.
Coins go straight back into your wallet — free to redeploy on another event.

Pulling out early is legitimate strategy — if the odds have shifted your way and you don't want to wait for resolution, take your gains and redeploy.

When Events Resolve

Once the real-world event occurs, the market resolves:

Voting closes

No more buying or selling once an event reaches its end date.

Outcome is verified

Our team verifies the result using reliable, objective sources. The resolution evidence is publicly visible.

Payouts happen automatically

If you held shares in the winning outcome, each share pays out at its full face value. If you picked the wrong outcome, those shares become worthless.

You can view the full resolution timeline and evidence for any resolved event on its detail page.

Earning Coins

Winning predictions is the main way you grow your balance. Outside of that, these are the ways to earn more coins today:

Daily Login

Login Streaks

Maintain a daily streak for multiplied bonuses. Don't break the chain!

Referrals

Share your referral code with friends. You both earn bonus coins when they sign up.

Achievements

Unlock achievements for milestones like your first vote, streak records, and prediction accuracy.

You can optionally top up Coins from the Wallet page if you want to vote bigger. Totally optional — the base experience is 100% free.

Redeem coins for gift cards

Coins aren't just points. Once you hit the redemption threshold, swap them for real gift cards — Amazon, Starbucks, Uber, UPI, and more — on the /rewards page. Delivery is typically under 24 hours. This is a loyalty rebate program, not a cash-out.

Credits have no cash value. Redemption is how you convert gameplay into real-world rewards.

Paid Rooms — creator skill contests

Anyone can host a paid prediction room. Members pay an entry fee in coins, everything goes into one prize pool, and at the competition end date the pool is distributed based on forecasting accuracy:

How the pool splits

• 75% → top predictors (Winner takes all, Top 3, or Top 5)
• 15% → creator rev-share
• 10% → platform fee (Lysensy Inc)

How winners are picked

Ranked by net profit across the room's markets — pure prediction skill, no chance. It's a skill contest, not gambling.

Ready to host? Spin up a room at /workspaces/new. Or browse live ones at /rooms.

Coming next

Already live: free & paid rooms, gift-card redemption, 75/15/10 prize split. On the roadmap:

Subscription rooms

Soon

Creators run monthly subs for members-only markets.

Leaderboard & Rankings

Compete with other voters and climb the ranks!

Ranking system

XP (Experience Points) — Earned by participating in events, making accurate predictions, and completing achievements.
Levels — Gain XP to level up. Higher levels show your commitment and skill.
Ranks — Progress through rank tiers as you accumulate XP and prove your forecasting ability.
Accuracy — Your percentage of correct predictions. Quality over quantity!

The leaderboard ranks voters by total score. You can opt in or out of the public leaderboard in your settings.

Glossary

Coins

The virtual currency used across Voting Machine. You spend coins to make predictions and earn them back when you're right. Symbol: Ⓒ

Events

Real-world questions you can predict on — elections, sports matches, crypto prices, and more.

Units you receive when you vote on an outcome. If your outcome wins, each share pays out at full value.

Outcomes

The possible results of an event. For example, "Yes" and "No", or multiple candidates/teams.

Odds

The current probability/price of an outcome, shown as a percentage. Higher odds = crowd thinks it's more likely.

Prediction

Your active stake in an event — the shares you currently hold.

Resolution

When an event concludes and the winning outcome is officially determined. Payouts happen automatically.

Payout

The coins you receive when your predicted outcome is correct.