Magic Door — Pick a Door Game (2026)

Magic Door is the shortest game on Gift Club: five doors are shuffled, you open one, and whatever is behind it is yours. There is no reveal, no second chance and no switching — which is worth saying up front, because the setup looks like the Monty Hall problem and behaves nothing like it. Every door has exactly the same expected value, and the whole game is one tap.

How to play Magic Door

1. 1
   Open Magic Door in the Games hubLaunch Gift Club inside Telegram, open Games and pick Magic Door.
2. 2
   Set your stakeSpark mode pays XP. Paid mode accepts 1, 8, 20, 40, 100 or 200 Stars — the 8-Star tier and up pay whole Stars on every door, and a 1-Star stake is rounded to a whole Star at random, exact on average — or a Gram (formerly Toncoin) stake from 0.1 to 10.
3. 3
   Look at five closed doorsThe prizes behind them are shuffled before you see them. Nothing on the doors themselves carries information.
4. 4
   Pick oneOne tap. There is no reveal of a losing door and no opportunity to change your mind, so all five choices are identical.
5. 5
   Collect what is behind itPaid mode pays the multiplier behind the door. Spark mode awards the XP value behind it.

Magic Door payouts

Paid modeSpark modeAccepted stakes

Prize	Doors	Chance	Return on 200
Nothing	2 of 5	40%	0
Half stake back	1 of 5	20%	100
1.25×	1 of 5	20%	250
3× jackpot	1 of 5	20%	600

Magic Door pros and cons

It looks like Monty Hall. It isn't.

The classic Monty Hall problem gets its famous answer — always switch — from one specific feature: the host opens a losing door after your pick, which changes the information available and makes switching twice as good as staying.

Magic Door has no reveal. You pick, the door opens, the round is over. Without a reveal there is nothing to update on and nothing to switch to, so all five doors have identical expected value. Any advice about door position, choosing the middle, or avoiding the door you picked last time is meaningless here.

This is a deliberate design decision rather than an oversight: a paid game whose return depended on whether the player understood conditional probability would pay different amounts to different players for the same stake.

Reading the paid prize table

The five multipliers are fixed: 0, 0, 0.5, 1.25 and 3. Two doors are dead, one gives half your stake back, one pays comfortably over even money, and one triples the stake.

That shape is worth noticing. Most single-pick games pair a high win rate with a small prize or a low win rate with a large one. Magic Door does both at once: a 20% chance at 3× sits alongside a 20% chance at a half-refund, which softens the 40% of rounds that pay nothing. In practice 60% of picks return something, even if a third of those returns are only half your stake.

The bet tiers are deliberately odd

Magic Door's stakes are 1, 8, 20, 40, 100 and 200 Stars. Above 1, every one is a multiple of four, and that is not arbitrary. Magic Door's return is simply the average of the five door multipliers, so hitting the house target exactly requires those five numbers to sum to a specific value, and the stake has to divide by the multiplier step for a payout to land on a whole number of Stars.

At 95% the five doors sum to 4.75, and every one of them is a multiple of 0.25 — so a stake divisible by four turns each door into a whole number of Stars. At the 8-Star tier the small-win door pays 8 × 1.25 = 10 and the jackpot 8 × 3 = 24, with nothing rounded and nothing truncated, and the 95% holds exactly there just as it does at 200.

A 1-Star stake can't land on whole Stars on its own: the doors pay 0.5, 1.25 and 3. So a payout with a fraction is rounded up or down to a whole Star at random, weighted by the fraction, so a 1.25 door pays 1 three times in four and 2 once in four. It averages out to exactly the door's multiple, and the 95% holds at 1 Star too. The 3× door pays 3 Stars either way.

Gram does not need the rule. A Gram payout is counted to the nanoton, a billionth of a GRAM, so a quarter-step door on any Gram stake lands exactly. Magic Door therefore takes the same 0.1 to 10 tiers as every other game, the five doors are the same at every Gram tier, and the return is the same exact 95%.

The tiers in between are the gap: there is no 5-Star or 10-Star round, unlike Plinko, Coin Flip and most other games. Worth knowing before you go looking for a round in between.

Spark mode has a hidden coin flip

Magic Door on Sparks does not use one prize set — it uses two, and picks between them at random before shuffling. Half the time the doors hold 0, 0, 1, 1 and 5 XP; the other half they hold 0, 0, 1, 1 and 2 XP.

So the 5 XP jackpot is not a 1-in-5 shot, it is a 1-in-10 one: you need the jackpot set to be drawn and the right door. Both sets leave two doors empty, so the average Spark round is worth 1.1 XP — 1.4 XP from the jackpot set and 0.8 XP from the standard one.

If you want a game with an actual decision

Magic Door is a one-tap game by design. For something with a decision in it, Higher / Lower is the only game here where reading the board genuinely changes the right answer, and Minefield at least hands you the cash-out timing.

Magic Door FAQ