GOLDZONE · PRO FOOTBALL
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Settled on verified stats · Free play, no purchase · Play Store and iOS app coming soon
Game 01 / The first GoldTickets game
The zone is where every drive is trying to end up, and it is where the arguing starts. Pro football, every week of the season: five skill players plus one team defense under a $200 cap. This is the first GoldTickets game, and right now it is the only one.
United States only, 18 or over, or older where a state sets a higher minimum age for paid contests, and only where permitted. When paid play opens, no amount is ever promised on a weekly Purse: it comes from what that week's tickets paid in, and nothing more. The structure is published in the rules before the season starts, and the amounts are never guessed at. The Vault is the exception, and the only one: that figure is guaranteed.
Why it matters
Every group has that person. The trouble is that being right in a group chat evaporates by Tuesday, and nobody keeps score.
It is a record with your name on it and a number next to it. Share it the moment you lock it. By Monday night the box scores have made it true, or they have not.
Every week rolls into season standings. Being right once is a good Sunday. Being right all season is the thing worth proving, and it is what earns a GoldTicket.
Our founding partner calls six every week, before kickoff, and the box scores settle it in public. See The Call.
Two ways to win, one ticket
You do not choose between them. Every ticket you build is in both races at once.
Clear every target on a single ticket and you earn a GoldTicket: an earned key to the Finale, where the season-long Vault is decided. Stay consistent enough across the season and you earn one that way too. They stack. They cannot be bought, and there is no other way in. Use them in the Finale: they do not carry to the next season.
Every ticket is ranked on Score against everyone else who played that week, and where you finish sets your place on the standings. This is the everyday game: small, frequent, and entirely down to how you read the week.
Every week also banks Season Points. They add up all season, and enough of them earns a GoldTicket to the Finale on their own. So a week where you clear four or five targets instead of all six is still a week that moved you forward.
Coming soon: weekly cash prizes, where available. Learn more
Gold is earned. That is the whole rule.
The category
GoldTickets is the first platform in Verified Sport. Not a marketing word: a category definition, written down, and the reason this product is built the way it is.
A competitive category for knowledge-based contests in which participants demonstrate domain expertise against independently verifiable real-world performance data, compete under a pre-announced prize structure within a season format, and are evaluated under transparent, objective scoring criteria with no element of chance in the outcome.
Your ticket is measured against a published target and against everyone else who played the same week. There is no book on the other side of it, and nothing to beat but the numbers.
No draft, no waiver wire, no lineup to babysit. One ticket, one lock, then nothing until the games have been played.
Nothing you hold changes value while you hold it. Real performance settles it once, on the official numbers, and that is the end of it.
Four things have to be true at once, and they are the whole definition.
Money mode
GoldTickets is free to play, and free play is the whole game: eighteen weeks of real contests, real standings, and GoldTickets that are earned rather than bought. Nothing on this page needs a deposit and nothing needs a card.
A weekly money version is built and will open where it is legally available. It is a separate way to play the same game, alongside free play rather than instead of it, and your account carries both. We will say so here, and in the app, when it opens.
Nothing But Gold is coming Christmas Day 2026. No other dates have been announced. United States only, 18 or over, or older where a state sets a higher minimum age.
One idea, built to travel
That is the whole platform. Point it at football and you get GoldZone. Point it at basketball and the ticket is shaped differently, because the sport is: how many picks it takes, and what they are. What travels is the idea. A fixed set of picks under one cap, a target on every pick, locked before the whistle, settled by the official numbers.
Every ticket is a fixed set of picks from the Field, the week's pickable pool, under one cap. In GoldZone it is six. The obvious names cost the most, so you cannot have them all. Deciding what to leave out is the skill, and it is the same skill in every sport.
Each slot carries a number to beat, and those numbers are your targets. They are computed from the data when the week opens. Nobody sets them by hand, and nobody moves them once you are in.
Lock before the first whistle and you are done. No trades, no waivers, no injury report at 11pm, nothing to manage. Five minutes on a Sunday morning, then watch the sport you were going to watch anyway.
Official box scores decide everything. Place high in the week and you climb the standings. Clear every target on your ticket and you earn a GoldTicket, the only key to the Finale, where the season's Vault is decided.
Sports that have not opened yet are still in the lab, including how many picks each one takes. GoldZone is six every week and seven in the Finale. One cap, a target on every pick, one set of standings and one Vault: those do not change.
What's next
Same idea, new sport. One cap, a target on every pick, one set of standings, one Vault. How many picks a sport takes is the sport's business, and it will not always be six. Every game gets a name its sport already answers to, with the gold in it. GoldZone is first because football is where the argument is loudest, not because the game only works there.
Pro football: five skill players plus one team defense, every week of the season, with a kicker added for the Finale.
Named for the zone
The sport that plays almost every night, which is the interesting problem: the week stops being a week.
Cut from nothing but net
The deepest statistical record in sport, and the audience that argues about it most.
Cut from grand slam
The tightest scoring in sport, which makes target setting the whole puzzle. Clearing every target when goals are scarce is a completely different read.
Already gold: golden goal
Nothing But Gold is coming Christmas Day 2026. Gold Slam and Golden Goal are not open and no dates have been announced. Follow @goldticketsapp and you will hear first.
The studio
playDTC stands for direct to consumer. It is in the name because it is the decision everything else hangs off. GoldTickets comes straight from us, on the web, with nobody standing between you and the game.
GoldTickets is a progressive web app. Open it in a browser, add it to your home screen, and it behaves like anything else on your phone. A fix reaches you the moment it is finished instead of the moment a review queue clears. We are working toward store listings too, and they will be coming this season.
We took out the layers we could, and nobody else takes a slice, because there is nobody else. The Vault is ours to fund, not a cut of anything you pay: a guaranteed minimum of $10,000, put up by the studio before the season starts. We can raise it. We will never drop it.
A game studio at the crossroads of sports, technology and fair play, building games where knowledge and skill decide who comes out ahead. GoldTickets is its first title.
Android and iOS apps are coming soon. Neither is announced and there is no date, because a store's review queue is not ours to schedule. The web stays the front door either way.