The Ponspedia Machine
A prize machine. For the encyclopedia, see Ponspedia.
The Ponspedia Machine is a chance-based token dispenser operated on Robinhood Chain. A spin draws one entry from the loaded pool at published odds and stamps it to the spinner's wallet, where it can be claimed at any time.
The machine is named for what it produces rather than what it does: a filled encyclopedia. Every slot is a numbered entry, and the pool is a volume.
How a round works
A sealed number is committed before the round opens. Each entry that joins is mixed into it. When the round fills or its clock expires, the number is unsealed and every entry resolves at once.
The operator's only power over a round is to refuse to unseal it. Refusing cancels the round and refunds every entry in full, publicly. There is no configuration in which refusing pays the operator more than settling.
Odds
Rarity bands are fixed at Common 70%, Rare 25% and Legendary 5%, distributed across whatever entries are currently loaded. The bands do not drift with volume and do not respond to an individual wallet's history.
When a slot's stock reaches zero it stops being drawable and its share redistributes across the remaining loaded entries. The surface updates before the slot can be spun into.
Criticism
The machine has been criticised within the Family on the grounds that any chance-based product is a booth by another name — that it charges for hope rather than for work. The standing defence is that the machine charges for a draw it actually performs, publishes what the draw can produce, and cannot aim it.
The argument is unresolved. See The Pons Family § The fee argument.