#sirius posts

Digging deeper, it appears the variable which the jumpscare sound gets written to is used in the function "hardReset()", which gets called in four places. I'm not fluent in Javascript, but it seems like these are the cases when it gets run:

on your 100th cat pull (so, every 100 cats?)

as a random 1 in 1001 chance every time a cat is summoned (except the first

under certain conditions when points value changes (in a function not mentioned elsewhere in the script--is that a JS/HTML interplay thing?)

possibly if the clicked element fails to animate??

(someone with actual JS experience please take a second look)

So what does hardReset() do...? Exactly what you'd expect from a thing which uses the face jumpscare sound. Plays the jumpscare sound, zooms this guy towards you from nothing:

...and cues up a short timer which drops you back on the Sweepstakes homepage.

SIDENOTE: Amusingly, the filename for the grinning face is "/assets/images/cat-009.gif", which matches the naming scheme of the used cat images.

Only five out of eight (+ face) tiers of cat are used in the game. 003, 004, and 008 get skipped, but their graphics are still hosted on the website!