🦅 HawkBet

South Lakes pick'em and arcade, played with fake Hawk Bucks only. No real money, no prizes, not affiliated with South Lakes HS or FCPS.

▶ Play HawkBet: playhawkbet.fly.dev

That link is the live site. Make an account and play. (Running it on your own computer? See Run it locally.)

What's in it

• 18 games. 11 chance games (Seahawk Drop, Locker Hunt, Seahawk Crossing, Heads or Tails, Scoreboard Roll, Hail Mary, Seahawk Slots, Lakes Roulette, Hallway RPS, Hawk 21, Seahawk Launch) and 7 skill games (Bell Rush, Classroom Memory, Seahawk Trivia, Free Throw Line, Mental Math Sprint, Marching Band, Hallway Dash).
• Skill games have personal bests, top-score boards, and score-tier payouts if you bet.
  • 🏀 Free Throw Line is NBA 2K style: let go in the green window.
  • 🏃 Hallway Dash is a lane runner with jump, slide, power-ups and four levels (Freshman to Senior) that get harder every 100 rows.
• Scoreboard Roll is provably fair: you see a fingerprint of the server seed first and can verify any roll in your browser.
• 🛍️ Hawk Shop: a Seahawk avatar with cosmetics. Gear carries luck (up to Luck 10), plus boosters and three Mythic Super Luck items that are gated and wear out.
• 🎁 Rewards: levels and XP, a daily wheel, daily challenges and 24 achievements.
• 🏫 Site Mode (Admin tab): switch between full HawkBet and Seahawk Arcade (School Edition: skill games only, no bets, no chance games), with an optional school-hours schedule.
• 🛠️ Admin tools: give or take Hawk Bucks (one player or everyone), items, luck, shop prices and sales, password resets, bans, and an action log.
• 🏦 The Bank only helps when you're broke (under 100 Hawk Bucks, 1,000 once an hour).
• The server decides every outcome and is the only thing that changes balances. Hawk Bucks have no cash value.

Run it locally

Zero-dependency Node server (needs Node 22.5+ for built-in SQLite). No npm install.

1. Mac: double-click HawkBet.command. It starts the server and opens http://localhost:8622 for you.

2. Anywhere else: run node server.js, then open http://localhost:8622.

    PORT=3000 node server.js
    ADMIN_USERNAME=yourname node server.js   # that username becomes admin when it signs up
   

• If ADMIN_USERNAME isn't set, the first account created is the admin.
• Data lives in data/hawkbet.db (gitignored). Delete the folder to reset everything.
• Lost a password (even the admin's)? node reset-password.js USERNAME NEWPASSWORD.

Tests

node --test        # spins up the server on a temp database and exercises the API

Deploying

The live site runs on Fly.io. See DEPLOY.md (HTTPS, persistent database, backups, updating the site).