Many Balls · About
Everyone in a lobby gets a ball. All the balls drop together through a field of pegs into nine slots: Remain keeps you in, Banished knocks you out, Power play gives you something extra. Survive all five drops and you split the pool with whoever’s still standing.
A show is five drops in a row. Each drop goes the same way, and the whole show takes about four minutes. The next one starts 15 seconds after the last.
Pick a lobby and a column from 1 to 9, and press Play. Your stake goes into the pool as the doors open.
Use your free power play if you want to (you get one a show), buy more with Small Balls, and change your column if you like.
Reels spin and lock the nine slots. Now you can see where Banished is.
Every ball falls at once. Power plays go off by themselves at a random moment, so nobody needs quick fingers.
Who’s still in, who’s out. Banished is final for that show, so the Shield matters. Still in after drop 4? You can Extract.
After the fifth drop, everyone still standing splits the pool. If nobody makes it, the pool rolls over to the next show.
Every lobby show is five drops, and the board gets meaner as it goes: the last two drops each have one more Banished slot.
Up to 250 balls a show, and every one of them is a real player.
Change it as often as you like until the reveal. It carries over to the next drop.
Set phrases and emotes, never typing: “Let’s go!”, “So close!”, “Bye bye!” and the rest. One at a time, and you can mute anyone, or everyone.
You’re through to the next drop.
You’re out for the rest of the show, unless you have a Shield up.
You stay in, and you get another free power play, which can be anything, even a Gust or a Curse.
Every drop has at least one safe slot. Power play slots only appear when two or more slots are safe.
Drops 4 and 5 have one more Banished slot than the first three. No Shields in the last drop: everyone takes the same chance, so drop 4 is your last chance for one.
You choose them before the drop and they go off by themselves: a Shield looks after your ball, the others go off at a random moment in the drop. Bought mid-drop, they go off within a few seconds.
Blasts a cluster of balls during the drop.
Free, or 50 Small BallsA bouncy bar between two pegs, with your name under it. It goes up with the slots, before the balls drop. Six a drop.
Free, or 100 Small BallsSurvives one Banished slot. One a show, and not in the last drop.
Free, or 150 Small BallsBlows every ball sideways. One a drop; any extra waits for the next.
250 Small BallsOnce everyone has landed, the slots spin. Your result is whatever slot ends up under your ball.
250 Small BallsTurns a Remain slot into Banished for one drop.
500 Small BallsEvery lobby runs show after show, all day. Pick the stake you want: everyone in a show pays the same, and everyone still standing at the end splits the pool.
| Lobby | How it pays | Seat |
|---|---|---|
| Free | Costs nothing. Everyone still standing at the end wins 100 Small Balls. It’s always there if you run out. | Free |
| 50 | Where new players start, for their first ten shows. The pool is everyone’s stake. | 50 |
| 200 | The pool is everyone’s stake, plus anything rolled over from a show nobody survived. | 200 |
| 1,000 | The biggest pools, and the most rank points. | 1,000 |
Still in after drop 4? Until the last drop’s power plays lock, you can Extract: take half your share of the pool (the pool split between the real players still in), never less than your stake back, and leave the show. The other half stays in the pool for whoever rides on. An Extract isn’t a win, so it doesn’t count on the Most wins boards.
If nobody real survives, the whole pool rolls over to the next show in that lobby, so it keeps growing until someone takes it.
Free. Everyone is topped up to 1,000 at midnight UK time, every day. They pay for seats, power plays, wall upgrades and new wall names. You win them from pools and Extracts, and every new level and ladder tier pays 500. They can’t be bought.
Bought in fixed packs through Steam. They buy looks for your ball and your wall: the Pixel, Rainbow, Disco, Gold and Galaxy balls, the Eyeball, the Sparkle and Rainbow trails, exits: how your ball goes out when it’s Banished (Confetti, Ghost or Firework), for everyone on the board to see, and more emotes for quick chat. The Founder’s Pack, a one-off purchase on Steam for a limited time, adds a Founder ball and a Founder badge that are never sold on their own. Never seats, never power plays, nothing that changes a show. They never turn into Small Balls.
The ladder runs in six-week seasons: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond, three steps each, then Champion.
Every player has a page of their own at manyballs.com/@name: level, title, trophies, results and your ball’s look.
Points for every drop survived, win and Extract. Each new level pays 500 Small Balls and unlocks frames and two looks you buy with Small Balls.
Boards for today, this week, this month and all time, counted in wins.
The details are in the terms and the privacy notice.
!join in chat. Here’s how to play.On a stream
Many Balls started as a game show for Twitch chat, and it still is. The board, the slots and the power plays work as above, with these differences. Viewers: the rules for playing on stream are on a page of their own.
Up to 500 viewers join by typing !join in chat. Joining is always free.
Everyone gets one free power play a show, and a Power play slot gives a wild one. Some streamers turn Bits, subs or Super Chats into extra power: !power shows yours.
Everyone still standing wins, and their messages go up on the stream. The streamer can hide any message.
Quick Drop: one drop, winners in about two minutes. 3, 5, 7 or 10 drops: the last one is the Golden Drop. King of the Hill: drops keep coming, with more Banished slots each time, until one ball is left. Prize drop: for a real prize from the streamer, with no power plays at all.
Relaxed, Normal or Fast timers, or "Wait for me" to move the show on by hand. They set how many slots are Banished, from 1 to 8, and can start a fresh leaderboard for each stream.
Each channel has its own leaderboard, and it’s wins only: one win for every show you win.
!join !join 4 !join 4 hello from Leeds | Take a seat, pick a column if you like, and leave a message for the winners' wall |
|---|---|
!7 or !drop 7 | Pick your column, any time until the reveal |
!bomb !boing !shield | Use your free power play (one a show) |
!gust !shuffle !curse | A wild free one, from a Power play slot |
!power | See your power, on streams that give it for Bits, subs or Super Chats |
!me | Flash your ball during the drop, so you can find it |
!laststand | Come back after you're banished, in the 15-second window (free once a show) |
!pool | Put your free power play towards bombing the streamer instead |
!balls | Between shows: when enough people type it within a minute, a show starts (if the streamer allows it) |
Coming soon. For now Many Balls runs on Olli43’s stream only. Here’s how it will work on yours.
Log in with Twitch on the streamers’ page, or make a quick wall from your channel name. It's free.
Add the wall to OBS as a browser source. No OBS? Studio runs the whole show in one browser tab.
Controls opens on your phone or a second screen: pick a format, press Start, and the timers do the rest.
While you're on a break, a Quick Drop runs on its own after a short gap (30 seconds to 2 minutes), again and again until you switch it off.
Two streamers' chats on one wall, each in its own colour, with a score at the end.
Every show you've run and this week's leaderboard.
You choose whose messages go on screen. Hosting and playing are free.