Elixir Drop Fair Play

Scripts, bots, automatic answer selection, direct API play, replayed requests, and falsified timing evidence are not eligible for rankings. Built-in settings such as Reduce motion and Enhance effects—and ordinary accessibility tools—are allowed when the player still chooses each answer.

Leading or technically unusual results may be reviewed. A referee reviews the exact run, including its signed challenge, answer sequence, active response timing, rules version, and relevant play history. An automatic signal starts review; it is never a verdict by itself. A run ranks provisionally while it waits.

Most games are never reviewed, and they carry no mark at all. A seal appears only where a referee has handled the run.

• AwaitingA referee is checking the run. It ranks provisionally and its placement can still change.
• ClearedA referee checked this exact run and it remains eligible for its correct placement.
• ExcludedThe run leaves the board. The player’s next eligible result can still rank, and a later re-review can restore the run.

When Drop can reproduce a score but needs an authenticity review, it records the game, ranks it, and marks that run Awaiting. If incomplete or contradictory input leaves no reproducible score, Drop cannot record a ranked result; the on-screen notice provides a short run tag for referee lookup while evidence remains available.

Drop excludes the specific performance when strong evidence shows it was fabricated or materially assisted by automation. Repeated confirmed violations or one decisive tampering case may lead to a separate, reversible restriction on future ranked play after operator approval. Practice remains available.

Each recorded run can publish one permanent player-and-run link. Drop counts distinct non-owner browser opens so Herald can credit real reach rather than crawler previews or repeat taps.

A small callback after the landing page opens is matched to earlier callbacks through a one-way, salted fingerprint of the request; no raw IP address or full browser user-agent is stored. Opens from your own device are not counted, preview HTML and image fetches never count, and credit per run stops at a fixed cap. A Fair Play-excluded run stops being shareable.

Review evidence stays private. Drop does not publish accusations, answer transcripts, connection fingerprints, or private reasons. If you believe a result or ranked-access decision is wrong, email drop@poapkings.com and include the run tag when the request concerns a specific result.