Keno

Goated Keno is a provably-fair Goated Originals game that turns the classic lottery format into an instant, fully verifiable round: pick 1 to 10 numbers on a 40-tile grid, choose a risk level, and get drawn results in seconds at a 99% RTP.

Where a real lottery makes you wait for a draw and takes a heavy cut, Goated Keno gives you a new draw on demand with a house edge of just 1% — and every single draw can be independently verified through Goated's provably-fair system.

It's the Original for players who like the lottery feeling — picking their numbers, sweating the reveal — without the lottery math working against them.

Keno Game Information

What is the Keno game on Goated?

Goated Keno is a custom-built, in-house Originals title in the lottery/bingo family. You select up to 10 numbers on a 40-tile grid, place your wager, and the game draws its numbers instantly — the more of your picks that match the draw, the higher your payout climbs on the paytable.

What separates it from both real-world keno and most online versions is the combination of a 99% RTP and four selectable risk levels. Instead of one fixed paytable, you choose how your returns are distributed: steady small hits or rare big ones. The 1% house edge holds across every configuration, so no setting is secretly better value than another.

What are the rules of Goated Keno?

The rules are pure lottery logic, compressed into an instant round:

• Pick your numbers — choose between 1 and 10 tiles on the 40-tile grid, or let auto-pick select for you.
• Choose a risk level — Classic, Low, Medium, or High, which sets the shape of your paytable.
• Place your bet — the game draws its numbers immediately.
• Get paid by matches — your payout is your stake times the paytable multiplier for how many of your picks were drawn.

There are no mid-round decisions: once the bet is placed, the draw resolves everything. Your two meaningful choices — pick count and risk level — both happen before you bet.

What features does Goated Keno have?

Keno comes with the full Goated Originals control set:

• Bet Amount — the base stake for every round.
• Number of Bets — how many rounds an auto-bet session runs.
• On Win adjustment — reset to base stake or increase your bet by a set percentage after a win.
• On Loss adjustment — reset or increase by a percentage after a loss, for recovery-style systems.
• Stop on Profit — automatically end the session once total profit hits your target.
• Stop on Loss — automatically end the session when losses reach your limit.
• Instant Auto-bet — run an entire auto-bet session instantly and see the summarized result.
• Custom strategies — build, save, and reuse your own betting strategies with Goated's strategy editor.
• Auto-pick — one tap selects a random set of numbers for you.
• Four risk levels — Classic, Low, Medium, and High reshape the paytable to your taste for variance.

How to play Goated Keno

1. Set your bet amount.
2. Choose your risk level — Classic, Low, Medium, or High.
3. Pick 1 to 10 numbers on the 40-tile grid, or hit auto-pick.
4. Press Bet — the draw is instant.
5. Your payout is your stake times the paytable multiplier for your number of matches.

How the two settings shape your round:

• More picks raise the ceiling — matching all of a large selection pays far more than matching a small one — but a full match becomes much rarer, and partial matches carry more of the paytable's weight.
• Fewer picks make the round simpler and the outcomes tighter: fewer possible match counts, less spread between best and worst case.
• Classic and Low risk spread value across mid-range match counts, so rounds pay out something more often.
• Medium and High risk concentrate value in near-full matches: bigger tops, but low-match rounds frequently pay nothing.

The exact multipliers are shown in the in-game paytable for your current picks and risk level — check it before betting, because it updates live as you change either setting. Whatever combination you run, the long-run return is the same 99%.

What strategies can you use for Goated Keno?

First, the number-picking myths: no set of tiles is luckier than another. Every draw is an independent, provably-fair event, so "hot numbers," "due numbers," and pattern picks (corners, crosses, edges) have zero effect on your odds. Auto-pick is exactly as good as your lucky numbers.

What you can control is bankroll shape, using the auto-bet engine:

• Martingale — increase your bet after every loss, aiming to recover with one win. Dangerous in Keno's high-variance settings, where losing streaks run long. Always pair with Stop on Loss.
• Paroli — increase after each win to ride streaks, reset after a loss. Caps downside, doesn't add edge.
• D'Alembert — raise your stake one unit after a loss, lower it after a win. The gentlest progression.
• Flat betting — same stake every round. Lowest variance, longest bankroll life, and the natural fit for High-risk paytables where you're waiting on a rare big hit.

Honest verdict: over enough rounds every system returns 99%. Strategy shapes variance, not expected value. The real strategic choice in Keno is picks-plus-risk-level — how you want your 99% distributed — plus firm Stop on Profit and Stop on Loss limits.

Goated Keno vs traditional lottery keno

Is Goated Keno fair?

Yes — and you can check it yourself. Every draw is generated from three inputs: a server seed (committed as a hash before you bet), your client seed (editable in your settings), and a nonce that increments each bet. These are combined with HMAC-SHA256 as HMAC-SHA256(server_seed, client_seed:nonce:cursor), and the resulting bytes are converted into floats that determine the drawn numbers.

Because the server seed is hashed and shown before your bet, Goated cannot change a draw after seeing your picks. To audit any past round: rotate your seed on the seeds page to reveal the previous server seed, then reproduce the draw on the verification page. The full algorithm is published on the implementation page.

How to fund your account to play Keno

Deposit crypto in a few steps:

1. Open Wallet → Deposit to get your personal deposit address.
2. Send funds from your crypto wallet or exchange to that address — Solana-based transfers are supported natively.
3. Prefer fiat? Buy crypto by card directly in-app through the Onramper integration.
4. Use the Vault to store funds separately from your playing balance, and swap into the GOATED token in-app if you choose.

Other Goated Originals to play

If you enjoy Keno's pick-and-reveal tension, try these in-house games:

• Mines — reveal gems on a 25-tile grid, dodge the mines, cash out anytime.
• Wheel — spin a segmented wheel with selectable risk and 10–50 segments.
• Dice — set your own target 1–99 and roll over or under it.
• Plinko — drop a ball through the pin pyramid for a slot multiplier.

Want to go deeper on Keno? Read the Goated Keno guide on our blog.