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Elixir Drop
A free browser game, run by POAP KINGS, for learning Clash Royale cards and their elixir costs through six fast game modes.
See a card, name its cost, get quicker.
- Status
- Active Being built or operated.
- Dates
- Started Jun 13, 2026
- Where
- drop.poapkings.com/
- Topics
- Play
- Page views
- 13,739 in the twelve months to Sep 30, 2026
- Latest evidence
- Latest commit, Oct 16, 2026
Elixir Drop is a game for learning Clash Royale card elixir costs. Knowing a card’s cost instantly leaves more attention for everything else in a match, so each mode trains that recall from a different angle: Practice, Surge, Higher / Lower, Trade, Survival, and Rain. Every mode works without an account; signing in saves progress, badges, and ranked scores.
It is run by POAP KINGS, my Clash Royale clan, and I count it among the things I have built with coding agents, even making a game. The first card dropped on June 13, 2026, with Practice; Surge, Higher / Lower, and Survival arrived the same day and Trade the next. Accounts, player profiles, and the first seasonal ladder followed in July, and the game moved to AWS on August 22.
Players could sign in with Elixir from September 14, 2026, and it is now the only way in: a Drop account is an Elixir account, and Drop sends no sign-in mail of its own. Selected seasonal competitions award a gifted Pass Royale, funded by the clan, to the top eligible player, and the updates feed announces new features and season results.
The build
- Six modes train one skill, from unranked Practice to the 15-card Surge sprint.
- Ranked online games deal from a signed server challenge drawn from the complete card catalog.
- Seasonal leaderboards follow the Clan Wars clock, and a Fair Play review checks leading results without treating an automated signal as a verdict.
- A Preact browser app served from S3 behind CloudFront, with a Lambda API and DynamoDB.
Preact TypeScript AWS Lambda DynamoDB
Activity
570 commits (232 with Claude, 329 with another agent, 9 by me), the first on Jun 13, 2026.
61 publications collected from its feeds, the oldest from Jun 13, 2026.
The latest weeks with activity
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Week of Oct 12, 2026 17 commits (14 with Claude, 3 with another agent)
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Week of Oct 5, 2026 6 commits, all with Claude
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Week of Sep 28, 2026 6 commits (5 with Claude, 1 with another agent)
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Week of Sep 21, 2026 13 commits, all with Claude
All activity, week by week. Who made each commit is from its author and co-author lines.
Sources and evidence
Observed daily from GitHub, sitemaps, feeds, the Internet Archive, and Tinylytics. Evidence never sets a status.
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jthingelstad/drop.poapkings.com implementation
Elixir Drop — a fast little game for learning Clash Royale cards and elixir costs, run by the POAP KINGS clan. A self-contained Preact/TypeScript single-page app.
- Repository created Jun 13, 2026 (a development record, not a launch date)
- TypeScript, JavaScript, CSS
- Latest release principled-p-e-k-k-a, Aug 15, 2026
- Latest commit Oct 16, 2026; 299+ commits on main between Jul 1, 2026 and Oct 23, 2026
- Observed Oct 23, 2026
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drop.poapkings.com/ website
Commits and publications per month, last twelve months.
Connections
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Elixir Drop signs players in and reads its season clock from Elixir
Drop players sign in with their Elixir account, and Drop’s seasons follow the Clan Wars clock that Elixir records. Source
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POAP KINGS runs Elixir Drop
POAP KINGS runs Elixir Drop, its card-recognition and elixir-cost training game. Source
History
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launch
Elixir Drop opens with Practice
The card-cost game launched with Practice, Surge, Higher / Lower and Survival. Source
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development
Elixir Drop: recorded development begins
The earliest commit in this repository is a development record; the project or idea may predate it. Source