# Mastering Saisen

By [Saisen](https://paragraph.com/@saisen) · 2025-08-19

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**Mastering Saisen** is designed to be your guiding reference for playing the Game of Saisen. What you’re about to learn will shape how you approach the game and help close the gap between new players and those with more experience and resources.

At its core, Saisen has a _meta_. Success comes from recognizing it, adapting to it, and countering it. To stay competitive over time, you’ll need to adjust, improvise, and approach each round with patience and strategy.

What is Saisen?: [Introducing Saisen](https://mirror.xyz/0x516B00B9c1Fd28fEBC327A0ca7763B2FC97fAa5c/cVaEZfjtelBVFD_Ynky0Rv9IAW8awjYM2QF7FJF4bbo)

12 Core Strategies for Navigating the Early Meta in the Game of Saisen
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Saisen has two phases:

*   **Bootstrap (first 24h):** Fixed 10 (p)OAS minimum, no prize payout, every 10 (p)OAS = 1 lottery ticket, and $SAISN emissions accrue.
    
*   **Main Game:** Min bid = 0.5% of pool, 1-hour countdown resets each charin, prize distributed when timer ends.
    

### Bootstrap Phase

**Charin Bomb**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/a4bb5d46743d413f1e6a1101ff36fcd0f9555e4174762c967ac3fe1bdccead23.jpg)

Make a large one-off charin. In Bootstrap, this secures a significant share of the daily $SAISN emissions _and_ gives you lottery tickets at the cheapest possible 10 (p)OAS rate. It’s the fastest way to build an early lead, but overspending beyond the daily emission cap reduces efficiency.

**Late Entry**

Skip the Bootstrap phase and preserve all your capital. You’ll miss out on cheap tickets and early emissions, but you also avoid overpaying when competition is fierce and inefficient. By holding back, you enter the Main Game with maximum flexibility, a full stack of capital, and no sunk costs tying you down. Sometimes restraint is the boldest play.

### Main Game Phase

**Charin Sniper**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/f3622fcb8090c52c6b1668cb8eb988bbb58ac5faf8c1d305cfdab3297195f831.png)

You charin immediately after another player who’s expecting the game to end with them as the winner. If the person who just charined doesn’t see the charin snipe made just moments later, by the time they check back the clock will have already hit zero with the sniper taking home the prize.

**Force ’Em Up**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e5f591815df587564c4588f8207886f8da1f2b41bfeadfcdb56c44fa631edf0b.png)

Drop a big charin to rapidly inflate the pool. This raises the minimum bid for everyone (0.5% of pool), making it far more costly for rivals to keep farming tickets. A brutal way to tax opportunists and price weaker players out of the round.

**Capital Efficiency (One-Shot Play)**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5e34fef583655fa1a3144ae72c92fe16cb2b892bb4d753fe326d0e6aff7b7938.png)

Commit your full bid in a single decisive charin at the right moment. Extremely risky—if mistimed you lose everything—but maximally efficient if you hit, since you avoid burning capital on intermediate bids.

**Adaptive Entry**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/5bf20d321de6b5e88c4e03e6863c1e8251fa1413151aad9ddd17112f02f7ba4d.png)

Rather than one massive strike, scale in with several mid-sized charins. Enter during quieter moments, add when the pool grows, and hold back a small reserve for defense. You give up pure efficiency, but gain staying power and flexibility as the game evolves.

**Last-Ditch Defender**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7c299773bbf9434f9e24af90267af4ddb8af97e226cc60ea9823744b7b9212c2.png)

Wait until the very last seconds, then charin to reset the clock for another hour. This forces rivals to keep bidding, drains their resources, and buys you time to regroup. Survival through stubbornness can sometimes turn the game.

**LP Farmer**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/6daff66e9a4a4be237ecbee436160c003e3627a6cedc3715f8616d874b85d595.png)

Even when you don’t win pots directly, remember that every charin contributes to LP stakers, House Edge (8%). Even if you lose bidding wars, you’re effectively farming yield in the background.

### Mind Games

**Fake Goodnight**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/e93a519257924e94028a99fc83b42256c3178395293b23923ed261605dfd44e2.png)

Charin with a message that you are going to bed and then pretend to go inactive. Is a psyops, actually wait for the opponent to drop their guard and charin thinking they’ve won, then come in, charin, & win to collect the prize.

**Rile-’Em-Up**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/236ae4815b89c6fe90da1ac19f9c747ee992c0e5170f75dcf144236ea2ca99a7.png)

Charin with taunting tactics in the text, which is used to entice more charins from opponents. Best followed up with a charin bomb to reduce the opponents charin rewards to waste their resources.

**Begging Charin**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/b4803fa51c8b72a539efa356065c47db4d323055e202af335d10d97723afe365.png)

Drop sympathy plays like _“please mate, I put all my student loan in this.”_ Can cause rivals to hesitate just long enough for you to hold.

**Ad-Space Charin**

![](https://storage.googleapis.com/papyrus_images/7366b6a5d8d949782a6bacdc5c854a50fed1c30805e9df3b8f03dacfc6b62ff9.png)

Treat the charin message box like ad space. It won’t directly improve your odds, but it can shift the mood, grab attention, or stick in people’s minds. Whether it’s self-promotion, a joke, or a shameless plug—the canvas is yours.

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With great power comes great responsibility… Trust yourself, pick your strategy, and go bold. Your destiny is in your own hands—so don’t mess it up.

The early meta has been mapped out here, but the choice of **which strategy you play** will always be yours. As the game evolves, so must you. Good luck out there.

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*Originally published on [Saisen](https://paragraph.com/@saisen/mastering-saisen)*