Terms
Last updated 15 September 2026
The game
- One question opens at midnight UTC and closes twenty four hours later.
- One ballot per person per day. You pick a side.
- Straight after your ballot, and before any figure is shown, you may call the side you think will win the day. The call is optional and it is blind: nobody sees the split before it is locked. That is what stops late arrivals from cheating.
- A correct call earns the losing side's final share, raised by the streak bonus that applied when you voted. A wrong call earns nothing. It settles once, at midnight UTC.
- Casting a ballot banks 5 points on the spot, raised by the same streak bonus. The amount never depends on which side you pick or when in the day you vote.
- Points reset at the start of each month. Streaks, seals and the Hall of Records never reset.
Fair play
One person, one ballot. Multiple accounts, scripts, automated voting or anything else meant to bend the boards will cost you the points, the streak and the account. We do not owe a warning.
Points are not money
Points, streaks, seals and the Golden Stamp are decorations inside a game. They have no monetary value, cannot be bought, sold, transferred or exchanged, and we will never sell points or forecasts. A season can be won by a newcomer, and that stays true.
Streak repair
If your streak breaks, you may pay 1.99 USD to restore it, or the same figure in euros or pounds depending on where you are. That is the only paid thing on the site, it affects nothing but your own streak, and it buys no points and no rank. The exact amount and currency are shown by the payment page before you confirm anything.
A repair covers a short absence, not a disappearance. Below a 50 day streak you have one missed day to put it right; from 50 days, the point where the Iron Seal is earned, you have seven. Past that the streak is gone for good and no payment brings it back. Seals are still earned by time alone: a repair can save a run in progress, never buy one you did not have.
It is digital content delivered at once. By buying it you ask for immediate delivery and give up the fourteen day right of withdrawal, which no longer applies once the streak is restored. If the repair fails and your streak is not restored, write to us and we refund it.
The Platinum Ball
The Platinum Ball is a separate vote, held at platinumball.thereferendum.vote: thirty nominees, and you rank ten of them. It has nothing to do with the daily question. It gives no points, no streak and no seal, and it takes none away.
- An account is needed to vote. An anonymous session cannot: one costs nothing to open, and the ballot box would be stuffed in an afternoon.
- One ballot per account, sealed once. It cannot be changed afterwards, and it belongs to your account rather than to your browser, so it follows you from one device to the next.
- Voting closes on 26 October 2026 at 18:00 UTC. Nothing is shown before then: no running total, no ranking, only how many ballots have been cast.
- The result is revealed that same evening, counted down from thirtieth to first.
- Fair play is the same here as everywhere else on the site: multiple accounts or scripts cost you the ballot, and the account with it.
Sponsorship
One day of the Platinum Ball can be sponsored: your name at the top of platinumball.thereferendum.vote, and engraved around the base of the trophy, for twenty-four hours, from noon to noon, London time. Your name is a link if you give us one. No logo and no banner: the site is white on black, and it is the name itself that is shown. One place per day, sold the day before between noon and 10pm. The price starts high and comes down step by step. The first buyer takes it, at the price shown at that moment.
Your card is authorised when you buy, not charged. We read the name and the link you entered, and the payment is only taken once we have approved them. If we refuse, the authorisation is cancelled: nothing is taken from you, and there is nothing to refund. If we have not approved within seven days, the authorisation lapses on its own, which counts as a refusal.
We may refuse a sponsor without giving a reason, and we will refuse anything unlawful, counterfeit, impersonating someone else, or that we judge out of place beside a public vote. You confirm that the name and the link are yours to use.
The display starts at noon on the day you bought, which is less than fourteen days after your purchase. By buying, you ask for it to start on that date, and you agree that the fourteen day right of withdrawal is lost once it has started. Until we approve, you can pull out: write to us and the authorisation is cancelled, with nothing taken from you. Once we have approved, the day is due and is not refunded, whether the display has started or not: the sale closed the evening before, and the place can no longer be offered to anyone else.
We tell you how many ballots were cast during your day. We do not promise an audience, a number of visitors, or any result. A receipt is sent when the payment is taken; ask us and we will issue an invoice.
Your account
You do not need an account to play. If you make one, keep access to the email address or the Google account behind it: that is the only way we can prove an account is yours. Ask us and we delete it, along with everything attached to it.
What we promise, and what we do not
We run the site with care but we do not guarantee that it is always available, that every question is to your taste, or that nothing ever breaks. If a day goes wrong on our side, we may settle it late, settle it differently, or void it. We are liable for what the law makes us liable for, and no further.
Questions and content
The questions, the wording, the artwork and the ballot cards belong to us. Share the cards the site generates as much as you like, that is what they are for. Everything else stays ours.
Changes
Rules that affect scoring will be announced on the site before they take effect. If you keep playing afterwards, you accept them.
Law
These terms are governed by French law. If we cannot sort a disagreement out between us, the French courts have jurisdiction, and as a consumer you keep every right your own country gives you.
Who we are
The Referendum is published by Lunyx, a sole trader registered in France.
Publication director: Guillaume Bonnin
SIRET 108 756 222 00015
59 rue de Ponthieu, Bureau 326, 75008 Paris, France
Contact: contact@lunyx.dev
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