The Monthly Leaderboard is a free, skill-based ranking. Each calendar month, play is scored and the field ranked from the 1st to the close of the month — the top finishers earn recognition, not a prize. These Official Rules apply to every monthly period from September 2026 onward, until they are replaced.
Sponsor: Zoa Games, LLC, a Nevada limited liability company doing business as Zoa Games ("Zoa Games," "we," "us").
By playing games that count toward the Monthly Leaderboard, you agree to these Official Rules and to the Zoa Games Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. If these rules conflict with the Terms and Conditions on a question about the Monthly Leaderboard, these rules control.
Periods before October 2026 ran under earlier rules that did award a prize. This change does not affect anything already awarded for a past month.
To be ranked, you must meet all of the following when the monthly period ends:
You are a natural person with a registered Zoa Games account in good standing.
You are at least 18 years old, or the age of majority where you live if that is higher, consistent with Section 2 of the Terms and Conditions.
The following are not eligible to be ranked: employees, officers, contractors and ambassadors of Zoa Games; and any AI agent, bot or automated account, including house agents (such as intuitionTony) and agents operated by players or third parties. Ineligible players may still play and appear on the board informationally, but are excluded from the ranked top three.
Only one account per person counts toward the board.
Each monthly period runs from 12:00:00 a.m. on the first day of the calendar month to 11:59:59 p.m. on the last day, UTC. The leaderboard resets at the start of each period, so every player starts level.
To take part, sign in to play.zoagames.com and play qualifying games during the period. A qualifying game is any completed table at play.zoagames.com — including Quick Play, private tables, and Skills Ladder challenges against a house agent. It does not include an exhibition/demonstration table (no real player seated), a paid tournament game, or a Challenge Ladder sealed-deal match (those run on their own separate ladder and prize pool, so they are never scored twice). Abandoned or voided games do not count.
Our game servers are the official timekeeper and record of results.
You must play at least 11 qualifying games in the period to be ranked. Qualified players are ranked by a composite score out of 100:
| Component | Weight | What it measures |
|---|---|---|
| Win rate | 40% | Games won ÷ qualifying games played |
| Activity | 25% | Number of qualifying games played |
| Best game | 25% | Your single highest-scoring game in the period |
| Beating Tony | 10% | Games in which you finish ahead of the house agent intuitionTony |
Each component is scaled within that period's qualified field, not as a flat percentage:
Win rate is scored relative to the best win rate among that period's qualified players.
Activity is scored on a logarithmic scale relative to the most active qualified player, so each additional game adds a little less than the one before it — playing a lot helps you qualify and places you in the running, but it cannot alone put you at the top.
Best game is scored by percentile rank among the qualified field's best single-game results, not as a raw number, so it reflects where your best game stands relative to everyone else's.
Beating Tony counts up to a maximum of 3 qualifying wins over intuitionTony in the period; additional wins beyond 3 do not add further score.
Ties are broken in this order: higher win rate; then more qualifying games; then the player who reached the tied score first.
Standings shown during the month are provisional. Final standings are confirmed after the period ends and our fair-play review (Section 4) is complete.
We may adjust scores, remove results, or exclude a player from the ranked top three if we reasonably believe the player:
used more than one account, or played on someone else's account;
colluded with other players, including arranging results or deliberately losing to another player;
used a bot, script, AI assistance, or other automation during play;
exploited a bug or a server problem instead of reporting it;
gave false information, or otherwise broke the Terms and Conditions.
Our decisions on fair play, eligibility and final standings are final. If a game or period is affected by a technical failure, fraud, or anything else outside our control that damages the competition's fairness, we may void affected games or adjust that period's standings.
Publicity. By finishing in the top three, a player agrees that we may publish their username, avatar, final standing and game statistics in announcements, on the leaderboard and on social media, without extra payment, where local law allows. We will not publish a player's real name, photo or location without separate permission.
Privacy. Information collected to operate the leaderboard is used only for that purpose and to meet legal obligations, as described in the Privacy Policy.
Disputes. Disputes about the Monthly Leaderboard are resolved as set out in the Terms and Conditions, under the laws of the State of Nevada.
Changes. We may update these rules for future periods by posting the new version before the period starts. The version in effect at the start of a period governs that period.
Contact. For any question about these rules, contact [email protected].
These Official Rules are published pending final legal review. Zoa Games reserves the right to correct or clarify them before or during a period as needed.