Vint.ee 2024 summary

Hello,

2024 was once again an exciting and innovative year for the vint.ee portal. 3,838 new users registered and 7,671 tournaments took place, which is almost 10% more than last year.

Major updates to the vint.ee portal in 2024

Bridge on the portal Vint.ee
The biggest innovation of the year is definitely the addition of the card game Bridge to our game selection. Bridge is the second most popular card game in the world after poker and was the last popular mental sport in Estonia that we couldn't play.
We developed Bridge based on the principle that it would be easy for new players to learn the game: You can start with just a field game and then practice a full game, playing alone against three computers.
Knowledgeable men have said that once you try Bridge, you will never want to play any other card game again. This writer can attest to this, so be warned :)!

Exciting facts in the gaming room
Vint.ee will soon be 18 years old, which means that our database contains gigabytes of statistics and exciting numbers. This year, we made these facts visible to users - in every game room you can see interesting facts based on this game!

Tournaments in Video Poker and Black Jack
The Vint.ee team always likes to do things that are unique in the world. And the tournament format in these two games is definitely something unique. The tournaments have also proven to be quite popular: in half a year, over 300 tournaments have already taken place in these games. In November, the Video Poker tournament series also took place, and today the Black Jack tournament series starts!

Minor fixes in various games
Whether it's dragging buttons in checkers and chess or showing game scores in card games on mobile - the vint.ee team always wants to make gaming even more convenient for our users.

Popularity of games in 2024

A total of 190,605 man-hours were played on the vint.ee portal in 2024. This is a few percent more than the year before!

Top 10 games:
The number after the game indicates the man-hours played.

1. Sasku 30816
2. Sudoku 30447
3. Chess 26820
4. Russian Checkers 19954
5. Thousand 16944
6. 4-person perekidnoi 9364
7. Gomoku and Renju 8726
8. With shipments podkidnoi 7979
9. Bismarck 7590
10. Othello 6213

As you can see, Sudoku failed to dethrone Sasku this time (I predicted this a year ago). The gap was narrow! In addition - next year Bridge will definitely be in the TOP 10 as well.

Number of visitors in 2024

The number of visitors to Vint.ee in 2024 was once again almost 100,000 (more precisely 98,521 according to Google Analytics).
Top 5 countries:

1) Estonia - 64000
2) China - 9900
3) Macau - 3600
4) USA - 2900
5) Finland - 1600

What will 2025 bring?

I would highlight a few keywords:

• Bridge improvements (such as improving the tournament system)
• Playing chess with a computer is too difficult, but playing checkers is too easy! Let's try to do something about it
• We still have a crossword tournament series to do. We might do it this year!

Finally
I would also like to thank all of our supporters and VIP users - you keep this portal running!

I wish everyone an exciting and fun-filled New Year!

Marten Meikop
Founder of Vint.ee

Let's add some more numbers:

In 2024, vint.ee distributed over 20,000 credits to its users in VIP freerolls and tournament series! This is about 10% more than the year before.

However, the amount that users have won in paid tournaments has made a significantly bigger jump. This amount also exceeded the 20,000 credit limit, but compared to a year ago, it is actually 50% more .