Exiting — the guaranteed profit

The exit window is what separates BurnBola from every burn-it-all gamble: you are never trapped. After each burn round the game pauses for ~12 hours, and any live ticket can be sold back to the bank at a fixed price.

The exit price

At the start of each round the contract computes, once:

exit price = (bank − 10% round commission) ÷ live tickets

That number is frozen for the whole window — it doesn't slide as others exit, there's no front-running, no "first out gets more". Everyone in the same round exits at the same price.

Why it's always a profit

Your buy-in put 0.09 SOL into the bank. After the first burn, the same bank is shared by half as many tickets — so even after the 10% round commission, the round-2 exit price lands around 0.162 SOL in a 100-ticket game, +62% over the 0.1 SOL you paid. Each subsequent round roughly doubles it: ~0.29, ~0.55, ~1.0 SOL… The earliest possible exit is already above your cost, and it only goes up.

The flip side is symmetric and honest: every exit takes money out of the bank, slightly shrinking what the future winner gets. The pot the last ticket takes is whatever survived both the burns and the exits — plus the jackpot, which exits can't touch.

Mechanics

• Exit any subset of your live tickets — all of them, or just a few to lock in profit while the rest ride on.
• Payout is instant and atomic: the same transaction that marks your ticket exited transfers the SOL to your wallet. There is no claim step, no waiting.
• Exited tickets are out of the game permanently: they can't burn, can't win, can't return.

Two timing warnings

1. The window closes on a block count, not a wall clock. The app shows a live countdown; treat the last minutes as unsafe territory.
2. Large exits split across transactions (up to 20 tickets each). Started at the last moment, an exit can complete partially — the tickets in transactions that missed the deadline stay alive and face the next burn. You think you're out; you're half out. No money is lost on the failed transactions (only their network fee), but don't leave a big exit to the final seconds.

Exit or hold? The honest math

Holding through a round is roughly a coin flip that doubles your exit price if you win it. The expected value stays approximately neutral — the game doesn't secretly tax holders or reward them; it only redistributes from the burned to the surviving. What you're choosing is variance: a guaranteed exit price now, versus a 50% chance of double that next window (and a shot at the jackpot at the very end). Pick the risk you actually want — and remember the jackpot only goes to someone who never blinked.