🎰 Anki Royale — Casino Simulator

Every card you answer pays you. Take the money to the tables, climb a worldwide seasonal ladder, buy a yacht, run your own casino — and try to keep your child fed while you do it.

Anki Royale is a free, satirical study-gamification add-on. The "casino", "gambling" and currency themes are fictional in-app mechanics. All tokens and credits are earned only by studying, have no cash value, and cannot be bought, withdrawn, or exchanged for real money. There is no real-money gambling of any kind.

✨ What's new

If you last saw Anki Royale as "a slot machine in a flashcard app", it has grown considerably:

• 🏆 The Royale Ladder — a worldwide, 28-day competitive season with chip-rank leagues, a Hall of Champions and permanently minted trophies.
• ⚔️ Challenges — race, sprint or grind head-to-head against other players for coin pots or for ladder prestige.
• 📌 THE WALL — a shared bulletin board. One slip a day from everyone on the ladder; your rank decides how big yours lands.
• 🎮 The Arcade — a season-exclusive cabinet that disappears at rollover and is replaced by an entirely different one.
• 🎨 Every game repainted — all 22 modes were redrawn and re-tuned, and the tables now have sound (with a master mute, because you are supposed to be studying).
• 🍼 A household instead of a chore — a real pantry, hired help and grocery deliveries replaced clicking "buy bread" every 200 cards.
• 📱 Mobile study finally counts — cards answered in AnkiMobile / AnkiDroid are reconciled after sync and paid exactly once.

📜 The loop

• Answer cards, get paid. Every review grants 🪙 Casino Tokens — Again/Hard pay 1, Good pays 2, Easy pays 3. Tokens are what you stake at the tables; 💵 Credits are what you win, and what the shop takes.
• The child. Every reviewed card burns 0.3 Hunger and 0.3 Thirst. Correct answers raise Education; wrong ones let their school standing slip. Let any meter hit zero and Child Protective Services turns up.
• 🎁 Lootboxes. Daily reviews fill a reward meter — 100 cards per box. Crack them open in the Shop for rare drops, coin multipliers and emergency refills.
• 📌 Floating mini-window. A translucent always-on-top widget shows tokens, credits, box progress and child status while you review.
• 🔄 Cross-device. Studied on your phone? Anki Royale rebuilds those reviews from the synced log after each sync — never double-counted, never dropped.

🏆 The Royale Ladder

A worldwide leaderboard on a 28-day season, ranked by Prestige Points — earned purely by studying, never by gambling.

• PP: +1 per card for your first 400 each day, half rate to 1,000, quarter rate to 2,000. Unused allowance banks instead of evaporating overnight, so a bad week doesn't cost you the season. Keep all three child meters above 50 and every card pays ×1.25.
• Leagues: WHITE → RED → GREEN → BLACK → PURPLE → GOLD → DIAMOND. A chip needs both a PP floor and a percentile among everyone ranked, so above BLACK it is earned against the field — and other players climbing can demote you.
• The Royale Plaque: the top five of the season, full stop.
• Hall of Champions: first place each season gets a unique procedural trophy, kept forever.
• The Vault: your season-end chip is minted permanently. Lifetime PP never resets.
• The Exchange: casino credits into prestige at 10 💵 → 1 PP, and your daily allowance equals the cards you actually answered (250 PP ceiling). Wealth helps; it cannot replace studying.
• Anonymous: no password, no e-mail, no account signup. Joining is one click and you can leave the same way.

⚔️ Challenges

Pick an opponent off the board (or open a public lobby) and agree the terms: a race to a card count, a sprint over a fixed number of days, or a steady daily quota. Coins go into a pot for the winner. Prestige Points can also ride on a one-on-one duel — taken straight off the loser's ladder score, and only when both of you agreed the stake before the gun.

📌 THE WALL

One slip a day from everyone on the ladder. Your rank buys size and position, never colour — #1 gets the marquee, everyone else gets a pin. It is the only place in the add-on where players talk to each other.

🎮 The Arcade

One cabinet. It belongs to the current season, it is themed to it, and at rollover it is gone — replaced by something completely different that you have never seen. Three free plays a day; the Premium key makes it unlimited.

🎮 The games

Games are grouped into Luxury Tiers, unlocked by buying the matching asset in the shop with credits you won. Tiers can be bought in any order. Roulette, Slots, Blackjack and Dice are open from the start.

Free from the first card

• 🎡 Roulette — single numbers at 36×, red/black at 2×, and a full painted layout to place them on.
• 🎰 Slots — five reels, up to nine paylines you buy individually, a mystery seal, a bonus wheel and a pay table that is honest about what it returns.
• 🃏 Blackjack — split, double, insurance, correct push rules.
• 🎲 Dice Duel — roll against the house.

🏎️ Tier 1 · Used Car — 200 💵

🐔 Crossy Road — walk your bird across a live motorway, each lane worth more than the last, and cash out before the traffic finds you. 🐹 Whack-a-Mole — a timed skill cabinet with ticket payouts.

💎 Tier 2 · Fake Rolex — 700 💵

🏇 Horse Race — a paddock, real form, and items you can slip to your runner. 🎯 Wheel of Fortune — one spin, one prize. 🎫 Scratch Cards — three matching symbols, scratched panel by panel.

🚤 Tier 3 · Own Yacht — 1,500 💵

📊 Keno — mark your numbers and wait. 🚀 Crash — the multiplier climbs, you decide when to bail. 📌 Plinko — drop the ball, watch it argue with the pegs.

🏰 Tier 4 · Lakeside Villa — 2,500 💵

⏱️ Bank Heist — find every matching pair of deposit boxes before the watchman finishes his round. 📍 Pinball — a neon table with real flippers.

🛩️ Tier 5 · Private Jet "Anki One" — 5,000 💵

🏴‍☠️ Treasure Hunt — dig, and know when to stop digging. 🐓 Cockfight — back a rooster and let the birds settle it in real time. (No actual animals were harmed. They are rectangles.)

📈 Tier 6 · Stock Market Access — 8,000 💵

A trading terminal: candlestick or line charts with a crosshair, an order ticket you fill by share count or by amount, leverage up to 50×, margin calls, and a portfolio that tracks your real ROI — until the algorithmic crash arrives and takes the lot.

🎰 Tier 7 · Highroller — 50,000 💵

Stop playing the house. Become it. Build and staff your own casino floor, and take a cut of everyone else's luck.

🌟 Premium — one optional key, five extra modes

Everything above is free, forever. If you want to support development (I'm a student building this on the side) there is exactly one purchase: a single license key that unlocks five more game modes. One key, all five, no subscription, no ads, nothing else is gated.

🗡️ Deep Run

A roguelite dungeon crawler with bosses, guns and loot — running inside Anki. Every floor multiplies the pot, and every floor is another chance to lose it: cash out at the fork or go deeper. The Tallyman is already looking for you. Heads-up: it's a real-time shooter inside a flashcard add-on, so it's the most demanding mode here. Newer machines handle it easily; older laptops may struggle.

🏠 Home

A pixel house that grows as you study, where your Anki kid lives. It starts as a grim grey drizzle and turns into sunshine and rainbows as you clear the day's queue, then resets each morning for fresh motivation. Build rooms, furnish them, plant the yard, adopt the cat. Scaled to your own daily goal, and viewable as a floating widget while you review.

♠️ Poker

No-limit Texas Hold'em against three thinking bots — real blinds, side pots, and a raise slider that goes all the way to your whole stack. Each opponent plays its own style, and none of them will fold to you just because you asked.

🍺 Tavern

A retro arcade bar shift: slide drinks down the counter into a wave of thirsty dads, catch the empties on the way back, and bank your tips before one of them reaches the bar.

👾 Gulper

A glass tower arcade dropper. Time the release, let the chip bounce its way down, and pray it lands on the jackpot dome rather than one lane to the left.

After purchase you receive a license key. In Anki: open Anki Royale → Settings → paste your key → restart the Casino window. One key unlocks all five modes, plus unlimited Arcade plays.

🛒 The shop

The shop also runs a pawn desk (sell a luxury back at a loss, buy it out later at the original price) and, if your credits fall below 200, the option to pawn your child to the system for an immediate +50 tokens. Put it on red.

🍼 The household

Feeding used to mean opening the shop every couple of hundred cards. Now it's a small household you actually run:

• 🧺 Pantry — real, persistent stock of food, drink and workbooks, restocked in bulk and drawn as a visible shelf.
• 👩‍🍼 Hired help — a Teen Sitter, a Nanny or a live-in Au Pair who feed the child for you. Contracts are counted in servings handed over, not days, so an idle sitter watching a well-fed child costs you nothing.
• 🚚 Standing order — an optional daily grocery delivery that tops the shelves back up at each Anki day rollover.
• 📋 Care log — so all of the above is visible instead of quietly happening behind your back.

🚨 CPS, and how to get your kid back

Let any status meter hit 0% and Child Protective Services takes the child and locks the tier games. Two ways out: hit a 100-review streak (right or wrong, it just has to be 100), or open the shop and RAID THE CPS — invest credits in an increasingly unreasonable arsenal and storm the building. More investment, better odds.

⛏️ Or opt out entirely: the Cobalt Mine

Don't want a dependant while you cram? Toggle it in the Tools menu: Send Child to the Cobalt Mine permanently disables hunger, thirst, school and CPS. All casino features stay open, tokens keep accruing, and the child is taken good care of… probably. Are cobalt mines the right place for children? Anyway.

🏙️ THE STRIP

A casino that grows on your deck browser home screen. 100 cosmetic upgrades, bought with credits, from patching the roof of a back-alley dive all the way to the ferris wheel, the pyramid and the helipad. It pays out nothing at all — that is the entire point. Twenty-two games print credits; something has to drink them.

⚙️ Settings

English and German. Toggle animations and popups, mute the tables, set your daily goal, configure the floating widget, and choose which GIF celebrates clearing your queue. If you want less noise, almost all of it can be switched off.

💛 Support development

Anki Royale is free and ad-free. Two optional ways to chip in:

🔑 Premium key — $1.99

Unlocks five more modes — Deep Run, Home, Poker, Tavern, Gulper — plus unlimited Arcade. One payment, no subscription.

☕ Just a tip

No key, no unlocks — just fuel for the next season.

After purchase: open Anki Royale → Settings → paste your key → restart the Casino window.

Works on Anki 23.10 and newer (Qt6). For entertainment purposes only. No real-money gambling — all in-app currency is earned by studying and has no cash value.