The 12th Nation
Getting started · 2-minute read

How to play

Predict the FIFA World Cup 2026, earn points when you're right, and climb the leaderboard for a share of a real prize pool— the creator's thank-you gift. A game of skill, free to play, no entry fee.

The game, in three steps

1📊
Rank every group
Drag each group into your predicted 1–4 finishing order. The top two advance automatically; the eight best third-placed teams sneak through.
2🥉
Pick the best thirds
Rank the twelve third-placed teams — the top eight fill out the Round of 32, exactly like the real bracket.
3🏆
Build your bracket
Call every knockout tie from the Round of 32 all the way to lifting the trophy. The deeper the round, the more it's worth.

Your road to the final

1
Now → 11 Jun
Predict blind
Lock your groups & bracket before a ball is kicked — that's worth the most.
2
11–27 Jun
Group stage
72 matches. Group order keeps earning (at a decaying rate) until each group's final day.
3
28 Jun → 19 Jul
Knockouts
32 ties to the final. Each round locks when that round's first match kicks off — so you can still predict later rounds.
4
After 19 Jul
Payouts
The leaderboard locks, the top 100 are verified, and the prize pool is shared.

How points work

Points scale with impact, not rarity. Calling the champion (100) is worth far more than a single match result (5). A quick ladder, smallest → biggest:

Match result 5Group order 15R32 winner 20QF winner 45SF winner 70Champion 100

Ties on the leaderboard are broken by weighted points (each point × its difficulty) — so harder calls beat a pile of easy ones. See the full point map →

When your picks lock

Predict early and blind — that's where the points are. Three deadlines:

📊 Group order
Editable up to twice, until your group's final matchday. The earlier & blinder you commit, the more it's worth — and all group points settle together when the league ends.
🏆 Knockout bracket
Predict early & blind for full value. Each round locks only when that round's first match kicks off — so a late joiner can still call the rounds that haven't started (at a reduced multiplier).
Per-match picks
On each match page you can predict the result, exact score, scorers and tie-breaks — open until that match goes live, then frozen.

Achievement bonuses

Call it perfectly and bank a bonus — scaled by how early you committed.

🎯+10 each
Perfect group
Nail a single group's exact 1–4 order. Full value when predicted blind; scales down the later you commit.
🏅+150
Perfect groups
Get every one of the twelve groups exactly right.
👑+300
Perfect knockout
Call every knockout winner correctly — bracket nirvana.

The prize & fair play

The top 100 on the final leaderboard share a ₹1 lakh prize pool— the creator's discretionary thank-you gift, unlocked if the channel hits its goal (he may increase it). It's a game of skill; no entry fee, no deposits, never a guarantee. How winners are paid →

Joined late? You can still predict — your picks just earn a fraction of full value (the longer you wait, the less), so early players keep their edge while latecomers stay in the race.

Bring friends: each friend who joins and makes a real prediction earns you bonus points (capped, so it rewards real players — not spam). Your invite link →

Ready to make your call?

Lock it in blind for the most points.

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