Home Run: how it plays, odds and payouts

Home Run is a cash-out game set in a batting cage. You face 27 pitches, three an inning for nine innings, and every hit multiplies the pay you hold. A strikeout ends the round and the bet. Tap Cash out (locking in the multiplier you hold) to keep what you have.

How a round works

1. Set your bet and tap Bat. The first pitch arrives about 1.4 seconds in, and the pitches get quicker as the innings go by.
2. Each pitch is either a strikeout or a hit. A hit multiplies the pay by its kind: single 1.05, double 1.2, triple 1.5, home run 2.5.
3. You can cash out at any time after the first pitch. The pay is what you hold at that moment.
4. A strikeout loses the bet. The outcome of every pitch is fixed on our servers when the round starts, so your timing does not change the swing.
5. If all 27 pitches are hit, the round pays out by itself after about 26 seconds.

What a pitch can be

Hits of any kind add up to about 77.1% per pitch. The first pitch is a little riskier than the rest because it carries the 3% house edge, so the chance of getting past it is 74.8%.

Worked example

Bet 100 coins. Pitch 1 is a single: the pay is 1.05x. Pitch 2 is a home run, which multiplies what you hold by 2.5: 2.625x. Pitch 3 is a double: 2.625 x 1.2 = 3.15x. If you cash out there you receive 315 coins. The chance of surviving three pitches in a row is 44.4%.

Notice that the hits multiply rather than add, so a home run late in a round is worth far more than one early on. Holding 3.15x, another home run takes you to 7.9x; holding 1.05x, it takes you to 2.6x. The risk of a strikeout is identical in both cases. Because a hit's reward grows with what you hold while its risk does not, the game is priced so that the average return stays 97% whenever you stop.

Max win and limits

A run of 27 straight hits with enough home runs would compound without limit, so the game-wide rule applies: no round pays more than 50,000x the bet or 250,000,000 coins. Reaching all 27 pitches happens in about 1 round in 1,200. Volatility is very high at the top and low in the middle of a round.

What matters and what does not

• When you cash out: the only decision. Each extra pitch is a 22.9% risk of losing everything against a hit that multiplies your pay by about 1.3 on average.
• Swing timing: none. There is no timing skill here; the animation shows a result the server has already decided.
• Inning count: just a display of the 27 steps. There is no change of odds between innings.

Over many rounds every stopping rule returns 97%. For the general principle see how crash-style games work.

How it differs from other cash-out games

In Snowball the growth per step is fixed and rising; in Home Run each step is a draw from four hit sizes, so two runs of the same length can end at very different pays. Dunk Tank has only five risk points. The original continuous-curve version of the idea is Crash.

Play with limits

Coins are virtual, have no cash value and cannot be withdrawn or exchanged for prizes. For adults (18+), for entertainment. Set a time limit before you begin; see playing safely in Cashout Arcade.