What HNW is
HNW is a selection mechanism. Hand it a pool of names — players, dishes, options — and it picks one using a provably-fair randomizer (drand beacon + commit-reveal). The result is reproducible from a public verify endpoint by anyone, including agents.
What you do with the pick — settle a bill, decide who drives, pick a flavor variant — happens elsewhere. HNW never holds anything of value, never promises a payout, never processes redemptions.
What HNW isn’t
Not a giveaway platform, not a sweepstakes service, not a lottery, not a gambling product. Hosts running shared selections are responsible for any rules they attach to their use. Detail in /terms.
How to verify
Enter your round ID in the round verifier. Your browser uses the players’ commits and reveals, the drand beacon value and the server’s entropy to recalculate the seed and compare it with the published seed. You can also read the verification data as JSON at /verify/<round_id>.json.
For agents
There’s an MCP server. Agents can list seeded games, start a round, and read the result over a stable transport. See /developers/mcp.