Surprise beats size
A reward you can predict stops registering once you've learned it's coming. An unpredictable one never stops. Slot machines are built on that gap.
The gamblification of focus
Get addicted to the useful thing.
Your brain spends more dopamine on a reward it can't predict. That's what a casino runs on. Here it runs on your to-do list: the reels pick how long you work and what you earn.
The randomness is all in the spin. The work is plain Pomodoro, and the coins only land if you finish the block.
Play it now No account. Works offline. Free.
- 1 in 6 spins match, and multiply your coins by up to 3
- 20-45 min a session, and you don't get to pick which
- 0 notifications, ever
↑ a room a few weeks in
Why a slot machine, and not a to-do list
Pomodoro is the boring half
Work one short block, then stop. It's been the answer to "I can't start" since the eighties, because the block is small enough to begin.
The house is you
Every coin comes from a session you finished. A bad spin still pays something. Abandon one and you get nothing — the only punishment in the game.
The same trick that takes people's money. Here it's aimed at your attention instead.
Empty 0 coins spent
Session one
You start with an empty room.
A desk, a window, a cat with opinions. Everything else, you buy with finished sessions.
Level 10
The bookshelf is 3,000 coins.
Four coins a minute, times whatever the reels landed on. A 45-minute session at Lucky Sevens is worth 590.
Level 11
Then the rug, and the room starts feeling like yours.
Each piece is painted into the room, so the window light falls across it properly. That's why they arrive in order.
Level 13
The aquarium takes a while.
7,500 coins, and 145 pixels of desk — the tank has to stand somewhere.
Level 19
Then the chandelier, and the whole room warms up.
Every piece in here was a session you finished. The room is the record — and it is the good kind, the kind you add to.
Eventually
And then it is a room you want to sit in.
Hanging plants, a trophy shelf, headphones, a cat with somewhere to be. Unlike the furniture, most of these keep paying — better odds, faster coins, longer breaks.
The furniture is the scoreboard. The shop is the game.
Things that bend the reels
- Cat and Lucky Dice — +5% on the reels matching at all
- Rocket Model — no spin lands under 1.5× again, ever
- Extra Payline — turns on the Pomodoro pairs, so 25/5 adds a bonus
- Diamond Trophy — a free re-spin token every cycle
- Hold and Nudge — pay coins to keep a good reel or bump a bad one
Things that compound
- +58% coins from the seven earning items, stacked
- +35% XP from four more, so the level gates come sooner
- +50% coins at a 30-day streak
- +6 min of break, a minute or two at a time
Still coming
- Three more rooms — cyberpunk, arcade, deep sea. Not recolours.
- A mini-game for between sessions
- Anything marked SOON is work in progress, not a locked tier
It's a phone app. There's no app store.
Save it to your home screen and it opens like any other app: full screen, its own icon. It's all on the device by then, so it works with no signal.
- iPhone open slotodoro.com/app in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen
- Android open it in Chrome and take the Install prompt, or Add to Home screen from the menu
Progress lives on the device. Signing in just carries a room to a second one, and the game never asks.