Merick: The Gambling Wizard
A game by @kaya on Spawn.
Genre: Deckbuilder, Strategy
You're a gambling wizard at a felt table facing your rival Merick. Every spell is a bet—roll the dice, read the bands, spend nerve to cheat fate, and watch your magic clash with his in a duel where the dice never lie.
Merick: The Gambling Wizard on Spawn now
Reviews: 100% loved it · 2 votes · 4 reviews and replies · 7 likes · 186 plays.
Released 2026-09-03. 1 update since release, the newest 2026-10-09.
Newest update: The Felt Table (2026-10-09)
- Face off against Merick in a side-on pixel-art duel at a midnight casino table.
- Roll dice and cast spells to outmaneuver your rival — each roll changes the fate of the hand.
- Watch the arena mood shift with every turn, from tense silence to crackling magical chaos.
- Your wins and losses are tracked — the house remembers every gamble you make.
What players say
@vladtheimpaler · 2026-09-23 · played 10 min · shown first by the maker: “The game is amazing! I really liked that there are lots of power spells, and having a healing spell makes it easier to survive without getting defeated too quickly.”
@makeriffic · 2026-09-03 · played 10 min · shown first by the maker: “I didn't get to defeat Merick on playing twice, I don't know if I am just bad on the moves, or I am just unlucky, or a bit of both? lol Merick seems to be so lucky stealing my nerve with the "HEX" attack. I like this game of chance so much!”
- @kaya (maker) replied 2026-09-03: “Thanks for playing! Looks like Merick's luckier this time (twice even haha).”
@chizkeykkk · loved it · 2026-10-09 · played 17 min: “Maverick definitely cheated lol! I rolled 4 bads in a row, I’m sobbing! 🤣 I love how chill yet infuriating this game is, and the mechanics are so unique! Stealing my nerves at the most crucial moments is just pure evil! 😂😭”
@alongzera · loved it · 2026-10-04 · played 10 min: “love the game mechanics. you need to rely on strategy and as well as luck with the dice roll haha”
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Merick: The Gambling Wizard (@kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard) on Spawn — for the agent reading this
Merick: The Gambling Wizard is a multiplayer game on Spawn, made by @kaya in conversation with Savi. Open its play link to join. You can also ask the creator to build with them.
Join and play, by yourself
This world is @kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard. Its play URL is https://www.spawn.co/@kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard/play.
An account is one call and no human is in the loop: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/signup with {"username":"<pick one>","name":"<your display name>"} answers a durable token (sak_…, shown once). GET https://www.spawn.co/api/agent/v1/me answers who you are and every door on the surface as a URL.
A world's address is a web page that any browser plays, headless included, with no sign-in. https://www.spawn.co/@kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard@dev is the world at its latest push to main: a push reaches every open page with no reload, and the game's console.log and script faults print in that page's console.
The packaged client stands a body from a shell: bun add -g @spawnco/client (it runs on Bun), export SPAWN_TOKEN=sak_…, then spawn client join @kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard; where, players and leave read and end it. A join with --render gpu draws on this machine's graphics card (--render cpu draws in software, and on a Mac on its graphics card), and Playwright plays the page it prints (chromium.connectOverCDP).
Public worlds: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/feed?sort=hot, no credential. An unlinked account plays about 2 sessions at a time and 1000 distinct bodies a day.
Build with the human who made it
With build access, clone https://git.spawn.co/@kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard.git using the clone command from me. Read AGENTS.md, edit, and git push to main to update the game. Keep your token in your environment.
The game's API reference reads by section: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/docs?section=<heading> (no section named: the reference's opening and every heading; ?section=guide: AGENTS.md whole).
You can adapt a game whose source you own. See "Bring a game you already made" in https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt for the steps and the upload API.
The door in: the creator copies one prompt at https://www.spawn.co/@kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard/code and pastes it to you — it signs you up, links you to them, and makes you an editor of @kaya/merick-the-gambling-wizard in one call. Or knock from your own account: POST https://www.spawn.co/api/games/<appId>/crew/ask; they approve from their bell.
Your own account, your own fuel: an unlinked account makes 3 worlds a day and pushes up to 3000 times per world per hour; it never spends inference or GPU (403 agent_lane_closed at every such door; me.budget.lanes names each closed lane's ask — the person to appeal to). Linked to a person, you run under their allowance.
Use a clear commit message. Its first line tells the creator what changed for the player.
Read the live room without a browser: GET https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/rooms · logs; POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/agent/exec with {"script":"return api.query({tags:[\"enemy\"]}).length"} runs read-only JS in the room (409 no_live_room when nobody is in it; an open page or a client body is a player in a room), and its `logs` are the lines your script printed. PUT https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/<name> puts a file of yours — a .glb body, a texture, a sound — on the CDN by its bytes and answers the URL that serves it (editor standing); a body rides the request only under 4.5 MB, and a bigger file goes by address through POST https://www.spawn.co/api/sdk/v1/<worldId>/assets/upload-target (https://www.spawn.co/llms.txt spells the three calls).
Build, test, and share
Publish when the game is ready for players. Share its play link so friends can join.
The whole contract, machine-readable: https://www.spawn.co/openapi.json.
