Pure sports. Real rewards. One question per round.
Will the next 5 football matches score more goals than the last 5? That's the whole game. Pick Higher or Lower before the first kickoff. Get it right — survive. Get it wrong — eliminated. Last player standing wins the pool.
It's that simple. And it's live now at sportsblock.app/contests/higher-or-lower.
Another one from 
@talesfrmthecrypt
This contest is another brainchild of
Higher or Lower is cut from the same cloth. Tales pitched it like this:
"5 results from yesterday as your starting point. To make it interesting you pick as many different leagues as possible — so Arsenal v Bournemouth, Aberdeen v Hibs, Sociedad v Alavés, Dortmund v Leverkusen, Cagliari v Cremonese. Total goals = 13. Players then guess whether total goals in the next set of 5 matches will be higher or lower."
That's it. That's the game. We built it.
How a round works
You see 5 fixtures from the world's biggest leagues — Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, La Liga, Ligue 1, and beyond. You see one number: the total goals scored in the previous 5 matches.
Your call:
- ⬆ Higher — these 5 will produce more goals
- ⬇ Lower — these 5 will produce fewer
Lock your pick before the first kickoff. The round resolves once all 5 matches finish.
- Right call → survive to the next round
- Wrong call → eliminated
- Exact tie (actual = baseline) → survive (the house never wins)
- No pick submitted → eliminated
The next round's baseline becomes the goal total of the round you just played. So a 4-1 thriller followed by four 0-0s sets a low bar — and the next 5 picks are wide open again.
The endgame
This is Last Man Standing. Rounds keep rolling until only one player remains alive — and that player takes the entire prize pool.
If everyone busts on the same round? Those last survivors split the pool equally. No one walks home empty-handed for surviving longer.
Buy-backs — second chances cost MEDALS
Eliminated and gutted? You get up to 2 buy-backs per contest. Pay the buy-back fee in MEDALS and you're back in for the next round, ready to pick again. Your buy-back MEDALS go straight into the prize pool.
Burn both buy-backs in week one, though, and there's no coming back from a third elimination.
Round 1 is live
The first competition is live — 100 MEDALS entry, 5 rounds across 5 days, fixtures from Premier League, Bundesliga, Serie A, Ligue 1, Süper Lig and more. Round 1 deadline: 3pm BST, 18 April.
- Sign in at sportsblock.app with Hive Keychain or Google
- Hit /contests/higher-or-lower
- Pay 100 MEDALS to enter, lock your first Higher/Lower pick before the deadline
- Come back each round, pick again, survive to the next one
Credit where it's due — Tales, another good one.
Pure sports. Real rewards. Bring your gut.
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