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