How to Play the ANON Arcade Learn Games: A Guide
ANON Arcade is a free collection of browser games, from card classics to retro action. You can play it at anonnfts.com/arcade. Inside is a tab called Learn: eight short games built around one habit, which is checking an NFT project's claims for yourself instead of taking anyone's word for it.
This guide explains how each Learn game works and the real-world lesson behind it.
Before you start
A few things are true of every Learn game:
They're free. You don't need a wallet, a sign-up or an email to play.
Everything is made up. Every project, price and pool in these games is invented, and no real collection is named or judged.
No real money is involved. NFT Tycoon uses in-game coins, and none of the games pay out anything.
They're for learning, not advice. They show you how to check facts, not what to buy.
Most games have a global leaderboard. To appear on it, pick a nickname at the end of a round. After a game you can also send a challenge link so a friend can try to beat your score.
- Red Flag or Green Flag
How to play: each card shows a claim about a made-up NFT project. Swipe left (or tap the red flag, or press the left arrow) if it's a warning sign. Swipe right (or tap the green tick, or press the right arrow) if it's a good sign. You have 60 seconds, and a streak of right answers earns bonus points.
The lesson: phrases like "guaranteed to go up" or "trust us" are red flags. A claim you can look up on-chain is a much better sign.
- ANON Backing Quiz
How to play: answer true-or-false and multiple-choice questions about backing, liquidity pools, FUSD and Proof of Work. Each right answer earns 100 points, plus up to 50 more for speed. Daily 10 gives everyone the same ten questions each day (UK time), with one go on the leaderboard. Endless keeps going until you've given three wrong answers.
The lesson: once you know how backing works, it's much easier to spot a claim that doesn't add up.
- Rug Pull Runner
How to play: tap (or press Space or the up arrow) to jump, and tap again in mid-air to double-jump. The rugs of made-up projects get yanked away just as you reach them. Grab a magnifying glass to "check it on-chain": for a few seconds it shows which rugs are shaky before you step on them, and you earn bonus points. Jump the hype signs too.
The lesson: checking before you step in is far easier than recovering afterwards.
- Hype Balloon Pop
How to play: tap the pink hype balloons to pop them, and quick pops build a combo. Green fact bubbles drift down too, and you catch them by moving your ANON along the bottom of the screen. Never pop a fact, because that costs a life. Letting five hype balloons escape costs a life as well.
The lesson: loud slogans are everywhere, but the useful information is usually the quieter fact you can check.
- Pool Plumber
How to play: tap pipes to rotate them. Mint money flows in at the top, splits evenly at every junction and pours out of every open end. Your job is to route at least half of it into the liquidity pool, with no leaks, while keeping it away from the rug drain. There are 32 levels, each worth 100 points, with a bonus for using few taps. You can end your run whenever you like and post your total.
The lesson: the puzzle mirrors how ANON collections are set up. At the time of writing, ANON NFTs are backed by at least 50% of mint price in FUSD at mint, and you can check it on-chain.
- On-Chain Detective
How to play: each case file holds records for made-up projects. In this game, a project counts as backed when its pool, found on-chain, holds at least 50% of what the mint raised (the mint price multiplied by the number of NFTs minted). Otherwise it's unbacked. Website claims and screenshots don't count, only the chain does. Cases get harder and faster, and you have three lives.
The lesson: a screenshot can be edited, but anyone can check on-chain records.
- Backing Builder
How to play: tap (or press Space) to drop a sliding FUSD block onto the stack. Anything hanging over the edge gets sliced off, so line it up carefully. A perfect drop keeps the full width and earns a bonus. Stack enough blocks to finish a level and unlock a fact card. Miss completely and the build is over.
The lesson: it's a game, not a model of real prices, but the fact cards explain how backing works in plain terms.
- ANON NFT Tycoon
How to play: you get 100 in-game coins and three minutes to buy and sell made-up NFT collections, aiming for the highest net worth at the end. Every market sale pays a 20% tax, so quick flips can lose coins. In the game, backed collections have a pool worth 50% of mint price per NFT, and you can redeem to the pool tax-free. Unbacked ones can swing wildly, run out of buyers or be rugged to zero. Watch out for surprise mints and a hectic final 30 seconds.
The lesson: the rules are simplified for fun. Real NFT prices and backing can fall, so always check the real figures on-chain.
Check it yourself
Every Learn game comes back to the same habit: don't trust, check. To try it with a real ANON NFT, our step-by-step guide shows you how to look up its backing on the blockchain: check the backing on-chain.
The ANON Arcade games are for entertainment and learning. NFTs and cryptoassets are high risk, and nothing here is financial advice.
Eight free games, one habit: don't trust, check.