New Telegram Games: Keno, Guess the Number and Three Duels

Five new games are joining the Gift Club hub: Keno, Guess the Number and three duels (PvP Dice Duel, PvP Balloon Pump and PvP Minefield). Keno has the widest range, up to 65.00× at five spots; Guess the Number is the only paid game where your decisions change your return, with a 63.50% win rate on the low level under perfect play; each duel pays the winner 1.90× their own stake.

Keno

Guess the Number

PvP Dice Duel

PvP Balloon Pump

PvP Minefield

Keno — the volatility dial

Keno is the simplest of the five to explain: mark one to five tiles on a board of forty, the house draws ten, you are paid on the overlap. What makes it interesting is that each spot count has its own paytable and all five return the same 95%. Marking more tiles does not buy a better deal — it buys a different distribution of the same one.

At one spot you have a 25.00% shot at 3.80× and nothing else can happen. At five spots the top rung is 65.00×, the biggest multiplier in the app, and it lands about once in 2,611 rounds. One honest warning, which the guide puts in a table: at four and five spots the most common paying result pays back less than the stake, so "win rate" and "chance of profit" are different numbers there. How to play keno covers how to read that.

Guess the Number — the one where skill pays

Guess the Number hides a three-digit number in a span and gives you seven guesses with a higher-or-lower hint after each. Seven guesses resolve exactly 127 candidates under binary search, so on the 200-wide low level you win 63.50% of rounds playing perfectly, and on the 500-wide medium level, 25.40%. The multipliers — 1.4961× and 3.7402× — are 95% divided by those chances.

It is the only paid game we run where your decisions change your return rather than only your variance. Halve the live range every guess and the 95% is yours; guess hunches and you are paying for odds you are not taking. Number guessing game strategy has the full method.

Three duels, and they are not the same duel

The head-to-head set is now three games, which is enough for the differences between them to matter. All three work the same way at the cash desk: both players stake the same amount, the pot is doubled, 5% goes to the house, and the winner collects 1.90× their own stake. Both players earn XP equal to their stake, win or lose.

PvP Dice Duel — the fastest

PvP Dice Duel is two dice each, higher total takes the round, first to two rounds takes the pot. Each player wins 44.37% of rounds; the other 11.27% are ties, which are replayed so neither seat gets a tie-break advantage. There is nothing to decide — that is the point, and it settles in two or three rounds.

PvP Balloon Pump — the one with a wrong answer

PvP Balloon Pump shares one balloon between two players, alternating turns of one to three pumps, and whoever pops it loses. Survival is a flat 90% per pump and memoryless, so a single pump risks 10.00%, two risk 19.00% and three risk 27.10%. Pump once every turn and your opponent faces the same decision you did; pump three and you have volunteered for nearly triple the risk. We publish that openly, because a strategy nobody tells you about is just a trap.

PvP Minefield — the one that tests your nerve

PvP Minefield puts both players on one shared 25-tile board with three mines. You take turns opening a tile each; a safe tile passes the turn, and whoever opens a mine loses on the spot. A safe tile reveals nothing, so no pick is better than another. The only asymmetry is the first move — the first mover loses 53.13% of matches — and a fair draw from the committed seed decides who takes it, so the match is a coin flip with a lot of tension in it.

Balloon Pump, solo

The solo Balloon Pump shares the duel's balloon but not its odds, and is worth knowing as its own game: thirty-five rungs, a first pump that holds 95% of the time and each later pump a point less, down to a flat 89% from the seventh on, from 1.0000× at one pump to 44.5663× at thirty-five, which you reach 2.1% of the time. Every rung is worth the same 95%, which makes the cash-out button a pure variance choice — when to cash out works through why.

Solo

PvP

Which one should you play first?

• You want the biggest number on the board: Keno at five spots. 65.00×, eyes open about the 0.04%.
• You want the highest chance of a round going your way: Guess the Number on low. 63.50% under correct play is the best win rate we publish.
• You want something to be good at: Guess the Number, or PvP Balloon Pump if it has to be a duel.
• You want it over in thirty seconds: PvP Dice Duel.
• You want to decide when to stop: Balloon Pump, solo.

The part that has not changed

Every one of these runs on the same 95% target as the rest of the games, and every paid round records a server seed hash, your client seed and a nonce so the result can be recomputed after the fact. Provably fair verification shows how to do that check, and the RTP index lists every game and its published return in one table. New games are only worth adding if they arrive on the same terms as the old ones.

New Telegram games FAQ

Which new games are joining Gift Club?

Five: Keno, Guess the Number and three duels, PvP Dice Duel, PvP Balloon Pump and PvP Minefield. The solo Balloon Pump is covered alongside them.

Which new game has the biggest multiplier?

Keno at five spots. Its top rung is 65.00×, the biggest multiplier in the app, and it lands about once in 2,611 rounds.

Which new game rewards skill?

Guess the Number. Seven guesses resolve exactly 127 candidates under binary search, so perfect play wins 63.50% of rounds on the low level and 25.40% on the medium one.

How do the new duels pay?

Both players stake the same amount, the pot is doubled, 5% goes to the house and the winner collects 1.90× their own stake. Both players earn XP equal to their stake, win or lose.

Which new game should I play first?

It depends on what you want: Keno at five spots for the biggest number, Guess the Number on low for the best published win rate, PvP Dice Duel if you want it over in thirty seconds.