The rules
The short version: play free, one round a day. Your best round each week counts. The top score wins three bars. Invite friends for bonus tries. No purchase needed, and no tricks.
Who runs it
Cocoa Curling is run by Scott's Chocolate, a one-person chocolate business in Wenatchee, WA. "I" and "me" below means Scott.
Who can play for the prize
- Anyone 13 or older can play and appear on the board. If you're under 18, a parent or guardian has to accept a prize for you.
- The prize is chocolate I hand over in person, so to go on the board you confirm you live in ZIP code 98801 or 98802 (Wenatchee and East Wenatchee). I deliver the prize there, or you can pick it up in Wenatchee. Anyone can play for fun.
- My household can play but can't win.
- No purchase or subscription is needed to play or win, and buying anything doesn't help.
How to enter
Finish a round of today's sheet, then choose "Put my score on the board", enter your email and confirm you live in 98801 or 98802. Tap the link I email you. There's no account or password. Tapping the link connects that phone or computer to your email, and after that each day's score goes up from it by itself. To play on a second phone or computer, put a score on the board the same way and tap the new link.
Entering also puts you on the waitlist for my chocolate club, which doesn't start a subscription or cost anything. I'll email you about the game and the club, including a short note each Monday with how your week went. If you ask for it, I'll also email you each morning when the new sheet is up; that reminder pauses by itself after two weeks without a round. Every email has its own unsubscribe link, and you can unsubscribe any time and still play.
One person, one entry
- One entry per person, with one email address. Addresses that reach the same inbox count as the same address.
- One round per person per day: the first round of today's sheet you finish counts. Practice on yesterday's sheet never counts.
- Only one prize per household per week.
Scoring
- Each round is five squares. Each square scores up to 100 points by how close it stops to the centre, so 500 is perfect.
- Every round is checked: my server replays your throws and sweeping with the same physics as the game, and the score it gets is your score.
- Your place on the board is your best single round of the week.
- Ties are broken by exact distance from the centre, measured more finely than the points show. If that's still a tie, whoever posted the score first wins.
- A week runs from 12:00 a.m. Monday to 11:59 p.m. Sunday, Pacific time. A new sheet starts every midnight, Pacific time.
Bonus tries
- Once your score is on the board, you get a personal invite link. When someone new puts their first score on the board through it, you get a bonus try for that week.
- A bonus try is another go at that day's sheet, after you've played it. If it beats your best round of the week, it counts.
- You can earn up to 3 bonus tries a week. Unused ones end with the week. Each person you invite counts once, ever, and inviting yourself (another address for the same inbox) doesn't count.
- No purchase is needed to earn them, and buying anything doesn't give you more.
The prize
- The top score each week wins three bars.
- If the winner joined through another player's link, that player gets a bar too, as long as they live in a different household.
- Prizes can't be swapped for cash. Prizes won before my cottage food permit is approved are handed over once it is.
Winning
I'll email the winner within 3 days of the week ending. Reply within 14 days to arrange a time, or the prize goes to the next highest score. The board shows ranks, scores and days only, never names or emails. I won't publish a winner's name without asking.
Fair play
I can disqualify scores or players that break these rules or try to cheat: extra email addresses, automated play, or tampering with the game. If something goes wrong with the game itself, I can cancel or change a week's contest and will say so on this page.
Questions
Reply to any email I've sent you about the game. These rules can change; the version on this page is the one that applies.