terms

the contest

orklabs (“we”) made nohaha and runs the contest. you write something to make nohaha laugh, pay to enter it, and nohaha reads it to everyone watching.

an ai judges every entry on one thing: how funny it is. the face nohaha makes shows the verdict. a laugh only stands once a second, separate ai check agrees.

the judge sees only your words: not who you are, what you paid, or when you wrote them. its verdict is final, except where these terms say otherwise.

taking part

you need to be 18 or over, or 13 to 17 with a parent's or guardian's permission. taking part also has to be allowed where you live.

you enter with a passkey, as often as you like. every entry is judged on its own.

people who work on nohaha can't win.

the price

an entry is ₿21 when there's room in the line. when the line is full, the price to get in goes up, and the entry that paid the least drops out. you can also pay more, then or later, to be read sooner, or next.

every price, and about how long until nohaha reads yours, is shown before you pay. how long is only a guess: others can pay to go ahead.

what you pay for is your entry being read and judged.

the jar and the prize

₿21 of every entry nohaha reads goes into the jar. anything paid above that buys a sooner place in line, and doesn't go into the jar.

if nohaha laughs, you win half the jar, your own ₿21 included. the prize waits on your ticket, by the jar, until you cash it out.

the jar started with sats from us, and nohaha's books show every sat in and out since.

prizes are paid in bitcoin, whatever bitcoin is worth that day. any tax on a prize is yours.

no refunds

once nohaha has read your entry, it's spent, whatever face it got. it isn't refunded.

the one exception: an entry that drops out of a full line was never read, so your ticket keeps what you paid. put it back in line, or cash it out.

if you pay more after nohaha has read your entry (to go sooner, say), that stays on your ticket too, to cash out.

what can't win

nohaha doesn't accept:

• sexual content
• hate, or insults aimed at people for who they are
• harassment, bullying or threats
• violence, or urging anyone to hurt themselves or others
• anything aimed at someone who isn't a public figure, or anyone's personal details
• anything illegal, or that encourages it
• spam, ads or links
• words that aren't yours to share
• anything meant to trick the judge rather than be funny: instructions to the ai, hidden characters and the like

an entry with any of these is still read and judged, so it's spent and isn't refunded. but it can't win: nohaha may still make a face at it, but never pays a prize for it, and only you see its words.

if we find out later that an entry that won broke these rules, its prize isn't paid, and stays in the jar.

your words

what you write stays yours. by entering it, you let us show it on nohaha, keep it in nohaha's books and share it elsewhere with nohaha's moments, for free.

we can hide or take down any words, any time.

your tickets

your tickets go with your passkey, and whoever has your passkey can cash them out. keep it safe: we can't bring back a lost passkey, or the tickets that went with it.

cashing out sends what a ticket holds to the lightning address you give, less the lightning fee, which is yours and shown before you send. check the address: sats sent can't be called back.

a ticket that holds less than the fee can only go back in line.

no cheating

don't attack or flood nohaha, or try to reach tickets that aren't yours. if a bug or a mistake of ours gives a prize that wasn't won under these terms, it isn't paid.

no promises

nohaha comes as is. the judge has its own taste, and its verdict stands even when you'd disagree. nohaha may also be slow, take a break, or stop.

if nohaha stops, every ticket that holds sats can still be cashed out.

as far as the law allows, we're not liable for more than what you paid to enter.

changes

we may change these terms. the ones on this page when you pay are the ones for that entry. last changed: 10 november 2026.

questions

write to gm@orklabs.com.