Begging

Begging is an action that participants can take in the Shop when they have exactly 0 coins. When they do so, the Blaseball Gods grant them coins so that they may continue gambling, in a random quantity between approximately 5-20.

Mechanics

A player must have exactly 0 coins to beg. A player with a negative number of coins cannot Beg.

It is widely considered optimal for players to bet until they have 0 coins, then beg, then bet, then beg, and so on until all active games have bets placed: this maximizes the total of coins earned, even in small increments.

It is unknown whether begging has long-term consequences.

COMMUNITY REPORTS
The remainder of this article contains lore created collaboratively by the Blaseball community.

Culture

Poetry

There has been no conclusive study as to what factors affect the number of coins gifted by the gods. However, some players recite short poems as they bet, believing it to raise the average number of coins when recited with sufficient passion. Some players create their own poems. Fans of the Breckenridge Jazz Hands often sing them.

Here is one example of such a traditional Blaseball poem. (Author unknown.)

In the splort that will take place,

Let us fill up ev'ry blase.

And if this wish you'll refuse,

May I have some coin to lose!

Worship

One sect of participants believe that prostrating oneself at the metaphoric altar of capricious fortune itself is an act of worship that gives the Blaseball Gods more power.

In an article for "Blaseball Worship Today," philosopher Hamilton Stilts wrote:

"By succumbing our bodies to the act of panhandling, we likewise capitulate our souls to the state of dependency. If the Gods are to dictate our very fortunes — if they are to throw our games or cast into the void our hard earned wealth, only for us to come crawling back on hands and knees and entitled brows, day after seasonal day — then the control that the Gods have over our fate is immeasurable and what they say is absolutely true: the Gods cannot be killed."

---