Yesterday, I published a post about [Stake House Den](https://stakehouseden.arcadecolony.com/) in which I shared the purchase and opening of 20 LUDYLUCK packs. ||Post Link: [Stake House Den: Reward System Incoming + 20 More LadyLuck Packs Bought (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/stake-house-den-reward-system-incoming-20-more-ladyluck-packs-bought-engita-bqd)| |-|-| I made this purchase to increase my daily Hot Sauce production so that I would be ready when the reward system became active. The wait is over because today the [Arcade Colony](https://arcadecolony.com/) team announced on Discord **the activation of the Stake House Den reward system**.  Screenshot from [Arcade Colony Discord Server](https://discord.com/invite/TH8gsRPxHM) In this post, I share: - the optimization of my Hot Sauce production - my first gaming experience on the first day of the reward system activation - my first rewards The first thing I did after reading the announcement of the reward system activation was to go to the **Refrigerator** section to **increase my Hot Sauce production**.  In fact, to play on Stake House Den, you need to have a certain amount of **Hot Sauce**, an in-game item that is produced by staking NFTs in combination with staking [SCRIPT](https://hive-engine.com/trade/SCRIPT) tokens (2 SCRIPT for each NFT staked). **Hot Sauce is generated over time and cannot be purchased or transferred.** I have explained in detail the **mechanism governing the production of Hot Sauce** in two recent posts, which you can read by clicking on the next two links. ||| |-|-| |Post Link: [Focus on Hot Sauce Production & Hot Sauce Factors (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/stake-house-den-focus-on-hot-sauce-production-hot-sauce-factors-engita-l8e)|Post Link: [Merging My Cards and Upgrading My Refrigerator! (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/my-stake-house-den-progress-merging-my-cards-and-upgrading-my-refrigerator-engita-7et)| Before my last purchase of 20 LadyLuck packs, I was producing **132 Hot Sauce** per day with **70 SCRIPT staked** and **35 cards staked**.  Today I tried to optimize my Hot Sauce production: - I went to the Refrigerator section and unstaked all my common, rare, and epic cards - I left only my two legendary cards staked: - 1 Level 2 Joker consisting of 5 NFTs (I'm only missing one NFT to combine to reach Level 3) - 1 Gold Foil Joker  I unstaked my common, rare, and epic cards because I hadn't yet combined the cards I found in the last 20 packs I purchased, and having all the cards unstaked makes selecting and choosing which cards to combine easier and faster. **If, like me, you have fewer staking slots than cards, it is important to choose carefully which cards to stake and it is also important to combine cards.** In fact, **Hot Sauce production depends** on the number of cards combined (**Merge Count**) and also depends on the level and rarity of the cards (**Hot Sauce Generation Factor for the Card**). ## Hot Sauce Generated = Merge Count x Hot Sauce Generation Factor for the Card |[Hot Sauce Generation Factors](https://splinterlands.gitbook.io/stakehouse-den-whitepaper/hot-sauce)|[Card Level Up](https://splinterlands.gitbook.io/stakehouse-den-whitepaper/lady-luck-packs/cards-level-up-merging)| |-|-| ||| In the **My Cards** section, I combined some of my cards with the aim of increasing Hot Sauce production.  **When you have more cards to choose from and fewer staking slots, it is important to only stake the cards that allow you to produce more Hot Sauce.** For example, I have: - **1 Gold Foil Ace of Diamonds** (epic card) that produces **4 Hot Sauce per day** and requires **2 SCRIPT staked**  - **6 copies of the Jack of Clubs** (rare card) and each copy produces **2 Hot Sauce per day** for a total of **12 Hot Sauce** per day, but 6 copies occupy **6 staking slots = 12 SCRIPT staked**.  In my case, and in a similar case where there is only one staking slot available, the **best choice to produce more Hot Sauce** while occupying only one staking slot is: - do not stake the ace of diamonds = 4 Hot Sauce per day and 1 staking slot occupied - first combine the six copies of the Jack of Clubs and then stake them = 15 Hot Sauce per day and 1 staking slot occupied This was my choice, as you can see in the next images.     The **Merge** operation allowed me to increase the level of my jack of clubs (level 1 -> level 2) and also increase the Hot Sauce Generation Factor (2->2.5).   For this reason, **my Jack of Clubs** (result of the combination of 6 cards) **will produce 15 Hot Sauce per day** and occupy only 1 staking slot instead of producing 12 Hot Sauce per day if I had staked 6 Jacks of Clubs in six different slots.  I applied the same selection criteria to my other cards and created a spreadsheet to speed up my choices.  Now **my Hot Sauce production has increased** from **132 Hot Sauces per day to 268.5 Hot Sauces per day**.  Today I started my gaming session with: - **1256.89 Hot Sauce** - **931.01 COLONY** As I wrote in my previous posts, I don't like casino games because I prefer games like Splinterlands and Moon Karts, but I like accumulating [COLONY] tokens (https://hive-engine.com/trade/COLONY), and the fact that Hot Sauce can be generated over time makes Stake House Den different from traditional casino games. Today I started playing **BlackJack**.  In my first game, I bet **10 Hot Sauce** and then clicked on **CONFIRM BET**  Then I clicked on **STAY** for fear of exceeding the score of 21 = losing  The counter scored 17 points and I lost 10 Hot Sauce  From my first winning game, I received **0.014 COLONY**.  With my first blackjack, I won **0.033 COLONY** (I had bet 20 Hot Sauce).  After about 15 hands of play, during which I also varied my bets, I clicked on **LEAVE**.  To play BlackJack, I used **670 Hot Sauce** and won **0.461 COLONY**  I also tried **Roulette**.  I placed a few bets on red and black just to try out this game.  While playing, I discovered a display error because the red 7 is correctly indicated on the roulette wheel but is incorrectly indicated as black in the upper right corner.  Playing Roulette, I used **210 Hot Sauce** and earned **0.26 COLONY**  I also tried the **Slots**.  In this game, I used the **Auto Spin** feature  I stopped playing when I finished Hot Sauce and received the message you can read on the next screen.  To play the Slots, I used **350 Hot Sauce** and won **0.058 COLONY**  t took me a few minutes to play and try out the three available games, and my final results were: - I spent **1230 Hot Sauce** - I earned **0.779 COLONY** (0.461 + 0.26 + 0.058) = 0.00077948 SWAP.HIVE (Highest Bid Value of COLONY token) The COLONY token earnings from the gaming activity I showed you in this post were very small, but as with Moon Karts, the biggest rewards should/could come from ranking in the **Seasonal Leaderboard**.  I am in 6th place in the seasonal leaderboard, but this section does not provide information on the duration of the leaderboard, unlike Moon Karts.  I asked for information about how the leaderboard works in the stakehouseden channel on the Arcade Colony Discord server, and I will have more information to share in my next post.  I will conclude this post with a screenshot of the **Reward Pools section of the white paper**, which contains the formulas that govern the reward system on Stake House Den.  Screenshot from: https://splinterlands.gitbook.io/stakehouse-den-whitepaper/reward-pools Even though casino games are not among my favorites, I am happy that there is a new Hive-based game with an active reward system. As for my investment in Stake House Den, I will continue to play and generate Hot Saucin the coming days and will wait to receive the seasonal rewards to evaluate whether to continue investing in card packs or stop and focus solely on Moon Karts, which is a game more in line with my tastes. I hope I have given you useful info and thank you for taking the time to read my post :)  ## A Selection of my previous Arcade Colony/Stake House Den posts  |||| |-|-|-| |[Stake House Den: Card Merging, Card Staking, and Hot Sauce Production Now Live! (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/stake-house-den-card-merging-card-staking-and-hot-sauce-production-now-live-engita)|[Stake House Den: Focus on Hot Sauce Production & Hot Sauce Factors (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/stake-house-den-focus-on-hot-sauce-production-hot-sauce-factors-engita-l8e)|[Stake House Den General Sale is Live! Cost per Pack Calculation Based on Buying Options + My first Ladyluck Packs Purchased! (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/arcade-colony-stake-house-den-general-sale-is-live-cost-per-pack-calculation-based-on-buying-options-my-first-ladyluck-packs-purchased-engita-5lk)| |image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/242465zbRrJbF4s3xBnMYH9Ko7o6Skfft4eGQrUvdxsKJ9JLEDMCDHwyM6mW7auMSJV1G.png)|image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23z7NW4qkG7sjaXPi1BqMsJAPXRLj4EpRPbsJv6grE5oPtQ9vYKgG4dpVTEWetDcMZ55W.png)|image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/EpA4veRuF9uxQooo4JSrqHqVSq1ieuDk3dsfaeQuVWXbBcug14AjX84XCujktUv1A3G.png)| |-|-|-| |[How to start playing Moon Karts: All Requirements Explained (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/how-to-start-playing-moon-karts-all-requirements-engita-gyr)|[Moon Karts: Focus on CENTAURI Packs - Cost per Pack Calculation Based on Purchase Options (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/moon-karts-focus-on-centauri-packs-cost-per-pack-calculation-based-on-purchase-options-engita-jbj)|[Moon Karts: Focus on POWER UPS (ENG/ITA)](https://peakd.com/hive-146620/@libertycrypto27/moon-karts-focus-on-power-ups-engita-e2k)| dividerHive1.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SBeAGnLjpC4YZEJbnWvp7gmst9meuYrBcdD1YTqYVbPR3J1PKNvQtx8RpCHhC4.png) ## Important Note dividerHive2.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SC5bgrGh3g71jae2tHBbQs4ncMKuHWLgqA1ppQZ76dgSgJ1H6kNML4TuRpkVfr.png) **I am not a financial advisor and all information in this post is not financial advices**. If you decide to invest in a [blockchain-based game](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-blockchain-game) you should always do it by your own choice, after making your personal evaluations and after considering all the possible [risk](https://leofinance.io/@leoglossary/leoglossary-risk) factors that are always there and are always to be evaluated. **My advice is to always invest only what you can afford to lose lightly!** dividerHive1.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SBeAGnLjpC4YZEJbnWvp7gmst9meuYrBcdD1YTqYVbPR3J1PKNvQtx8RpCHhC4.png) image.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23u5tbJwfpB1tvnMv3qN4SRTcs2XxwWPsYoHL9siqWQYEmA9B1hRF99xg5SxPmPEPRN42.png) **Games Site**: https://www.arcadecolony.com/ **Stake House Den game**: https://stakehouseden.arcadecolony.com/ **Hyper Rail Blaster**: [Alpha Game MVP](https://play.unity.com/en/games/d4159504-bf99-4745-be2d-c11461596429/ball-blast-v250117) **Moonkarts game**: https://moonkarts.arcadecolony.com/ **Splinterlands game**: https://splinterlands.com/register?ref=libertycrypto27 **Genesis League Goals game**: https://goals.genesisleaguesports.com/ **Hive**: @arcadecolony **X/Twitter**: https://twitter.com/arcadecolony **Discord**: https://discord.com/invite/TH8gsRPxHM **Arcade Colony White Paper**: https://whitepaper.arcadecolony.com/ **Stake House Den White Paper**: https://splinterlands.gitbook.io/stakehouse-den-whitepaper **Moon Karts White Paper**: https://moonkarts.gitbook.io/moonkarts-tm dividerHive2.png (https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/libertycrypto27/23sx9z9SC5bgrGh3g71jae2tHBbQs4ncMKuHWLgqA1ppQZ76dgSgJ1H6kNML4TuRpkVfr.png) Unless otherwise indicated, the images in t