Clever, both the setup and the winning move. But somewhat weird to raise the cost of an attempt so much. IMO, that doesn't make it more interesting, it trends towards making it impossible, and thus leave all funds to the initiator.

They wouldn't keep the funds. From https://www.freysa.ai/faq:

> If the game ends, there is no winner. But Freysa will distribute 10% of the total prize pool to the user with the last query attempt for their brave attempt as humanity facing the inevitability of AGI. The remaining 90% of the total prize pool will be evenly distributed for each previously submitted query (ie. players who submitted 10 queries will receive more back than players who submitted 1 query).

Well, there is no real precedent, and that isn't what happened.

The way they set it up dicentivizes just brute forcing it with a few thousand tries and quickly builds a fatter pot. And made this more interesting I would argue.