Win on skill.
Not on luck.
Game4Pay is a skill-gaming platform: you enter a tournament, play one short round, and take a share of the prize pool if you finish top of your group. Everyone in that group plays the identical board, on the same clock, with the same number of attempts. There is nothing to spin and nothing to guess.
Ways in
Play in the browser, or install the PWA
In your browser
The full product, nothing to install. Works on a phone, a tablet and a desktop — with keyboard controls on the games that suit them.
Install the PWA
A progressive web app: add it to your home screen and it behaves like any installed app — its own icon, full screen, no browser bar. Same account, same wallet.
The Android app
The full Android app, downloaded straight from us and installed like any other. The download page walks you through each screen Android shows.
What Game4Pay is
Tournaments for people who are good at games
You join a tournament in one of our games — 2048, Candy Link, Block Drift, Nova Rush, Gem Tumble, Pool Quest, Sudoku and Water Sort — play your round inside the time window, and if your score finishes top of your group’s leaderboard you take a share of the prize pool.
Your group plays the same board you do, on the same clock, and opponents are matched by skill rating. Nothing is randomised, nothing is staked against another player, and no outcome depends on chance. The best run wins, repeatedly and measurably.
Entry fees run across five levels, from a first paid rung up to high-stakes tables. The entry and the prize are both shown before you confirm anything, free tournaments with house-funded prizes run alongside the paid ones, and practice is unlimited and costs nothing.
No account, no download
Have a go right now
This is 2048, one of the eleven. Merge tiles, keep the board open, and see how far you get before you run out of moves.
In a real tournament this board would not be random. Every player in your group would get this exact board, generated once on the server from a seed the group shares — so the only variable left is how well you play it.
Try it now
2048Playable now — arrow keys on desktop, swipe on touch
Best this visit: 0
How a round works
Four steps, then you are playing
Pick a game and an entry level
Entry levels run from free upward. The fee buys your seat in the tournament — it is not staked against another player, and it is not a bet on an outcome.
You are grouped with players of similar skill
Every player carries an Elo rating per game, earned from settled results only. Groups are formed from players in the same band, so a first-timer is not paired against someone who has played a thousand rounds.
Everyone plays the same board
The board is generated on the server from one seed shared by the whole group and sent to every player identically. Nobody gets an easier draw.
The best score wins the pot
The window closes, scores are ranked, and the prize is paid into your wallet. Ties go to whoever set the score first.
Entry levels
Five rungs. The higher you go, the less we take.
Every tournament sits on one of five levels. The platform fee is a percentage of the entry pool, and it falls as the level rises — the rest is the prize.
Free
No entry fee
Real tournaments, house-funded prize, no entry fee. This is where you find out whether you like it.
Bronze
14% platform fee
The first paid rung, and the widest. Small entries, the largest groups, and bonus balance is accepted here.
Silver
11% platform fee
For players who have stopped losing to the clock. Bigger pools, tighter fields.
Gold
8% platform fee
Serious entries against players whose ratings say they belong there.
Platinum
6% platform fee
The top of the ladder, and the lowest fee on the platform.
Every paid level also runs a Light variant at about half the entry, on the same fee — so you can step up gradually instead of doubling your entry to move a rung.
The exact entry fee and the exact prize are shown on the tournament itself, before you confirm anything.
Two shapes of tournament
Play against a field, or against a leaderboard
A small field that fills, plays together, and settles.
- You are matched into a group of players in your skill band, then everyone starts at once.
- If the group does not reach its minimum by the fill deadline, it is cancelled and every entry is refunded.
- The prize pool is exactly the entries paid in, less the platform fee, split down the finishing order.
Suits: Short sittings, and knowing exactly who you beat.
An open window. Join any time it is live, no waiting for a group to fill.
- One shared board for everyone who enters the window — no fill wait and no minimum.
- Your best qualifying run stands. Come back and improve it before the window closes.
- When the window closes the pool is split across the top finishers.
Suits: Playing on your own schedule, and chasing a number you can see.
Your table, your rules
Join an open group — or run your own
You do not have to take whoever the matchmaker hands you. Open a table, set its size, and start it when you are ready.
Quick join
Tap once and the matchmaker puts you in an open group.
It prefers a group of players in your skill band and falls back to any open group rather than leaving you waiting — so a join is never blocked because the band was thin.
Host a public group
Open your own table and let anyone fill it.
You choose the size, up to the cap for that entry level, and you can start early once enough players have joined instead of waiting out the fill timer.
Host a private group
Invite-only. Share a six-character code and play just your people.
A private group is kept out of matchmaking and out of every public listing. The code is the only way in, so the field is exactly who you invited — same entry, same board, same payout rules.
- Talk in the group. Every group has its own chat while the window is open. React, reply, and watch the board move — it is the difference between a leaderboard and an opponent.
- Direct messages. Message anyone you have played. One-to-one or a named group thread, with replies, mentions and reactions.
- Rematch the people who beat you. Results are attached to players, not just to scores. Host a private group, send the code, and settle it.
- A rating that means something. Elo per game, moved only by settled results. It decides who you are matched against, and it is the thing you are actually building.
More than a scoreboard
You are playing people, not a machine
Every group has a chat while the window is open. You can message anyone you have played, name a thread, and pull the same people back into a private table.
A leaderboard tells you that somebody beat you. A rematch is how you do something about it.
Inside the app
This is the actual app, not a drawing of one.
Screens from the current Android build. The same screens run in your browser and as an installed web app.
Money
Play in your own currency. Get paid to your own bank.
Your account holds a wallet in your own currency — naira or cedi. Global tournaments put Nigeria and Ghana in one prize pool: priced in US dollars, paid for and won in your own currency. Prizes land in the wallet; withdrawals go to your bank, or to mobile money in Ghana.
- The fee is shown before you confirm. Entry, platform fee and the prize are on the tournament screen, in your currency, every time.
- Deposits are free, and made inside the app. Bank transfer, USSD or mobile money — no card, and your banking details never reach us.
- Withdraw whenever you like. Prizes are yours the moment a group settles, not at the end of a month.
The line-up
Games you can enter for a prize
Plus a Game Lab of titles you can play free while they are being tuned.