the block / rules
Thirty seconds.
If it takes longer than that to explain, nobody plays.
- 1
Pick a tile. Pay. Your logo goes up.
Tiles start at $5.
$5 because it should be an impulse, not a decision. Anything you have to think about, you don’t do.
- 2
The price climbs as tiles fill.
Every 100 tiles sold, the floor goes up $5. Right now it is $5.
Ten steps of $5, ending at $50 for the last hundred. A flat price would say the thousandth tile is worth what the first was — by then the board has an audience, and it isn’t.
- 3
Your heat decays.
Every tile cools by half every 3 days.
Three days. Long enough that what you paid still matters by the weekend, short enough that a dead tile doesn’t squat the top corner forever.
- 4
Hot tiles sit top-left. Cold tiles sink.
Position is heat. Nothing else.
No editorial picks, no featured slots, nothing we can quietly sell you on the side. The only way up is to outpay the tile above you.
- 5
Sold out? Then take someone’s.
Costs 1.5× their current heat, and never less than the floor.
1.5× is the smallest multiplier that still stings. At 2× the board freezes — nobody takes a tile at double. At 1.1× it churns hourly and holding one means nothing.
- 6
No refunds. Ever.
You’re a squatter, not an owner.
You bought the time you held it, and you got that. Refunding an eviction would mean the person who took the tile paid for someone else’s money back.
THE FIVE WORDS
- Heat
- What a tile is worth right now, in dollars. It is set by whatever was last paid for the tile and halves every three days.
- Floor
- The least anyone can pay for a tile. It starts at $5, rises $5 for every 100 tiles sold, and ends at $50 for the last hundred.
- Eviction
- Taking an occupied tile by paying 1.5× its current heat. The previous holder loses the tile immediately and gets nothing back.
- Block
- Tiles bought together in one order. They share a price and a heat, so they stay side by side and render as one shape on the board.
- Rank
- Where a tile sits on the board, counted from the top-left corner. It is purely a function of heat — nothing else moves a tile.
STILL WONDERING
- Do I get a refund if I’m evicted?
- No. Payment is final. You paid for the time you held it.
- Are the links dofollow?
- No. Every link out of tilesquat is rel="sponsored" — the board and your listing page both. We do not sell links that pass ranking signals. What you get is a page search engines can index, your own words on it, and a click count anyone can check.
- What happens if I stop paying?
- Nothing — your tile just cools and sinks until someone takes it.
- Can I buy multiple tiles?
- Yes. Tiles bought together stay one block: same price, same heat, so they land side by side. Evict one out of a block and the block shrinks by one.
- What’s banned?
- Gambling, adult, crypto schemes, malware. Removed without refund.
- How fast is the board?
- It refreshes itself every few seconds. Worst case you are looking at something six seconds old — which is why a tile can get taken between you seeing it and clicking it.
The dull-but-binding version lives in the terms.