Monthly Prizes

Big Beam. The rules, from November 2026. Last updated 3 November 2026.

The short version

Each month, the top 30 players on the Month leaderboard win skins made for that month. Entry is free, and nothing you can buy helps you win.

What you can win

1st to 3rd: the month's beam, blob and trail.
4th to 10th: the month's blob and trail.
11th to 30th: the month's trail.

Each month has new designs. A month's skins are given only to its winners, are never given again, are never sold and are not in the Big Beam Pack. Skins change only how the game looks: nothing in play, in the score or on the leaderboards.

Entering

Entry is free. You're in when you're on the leaderboards, which you join the first time you play a level. No purchase is needed, and no purchase helps: the Big Beam Pack gives no stars, and stars can't be bought.

How winners are picked

The Month leaderboard counts the stars you win that month, Sydney time. A level you clear for the first time counts its stars, and a better result on a level you've cleared counts the extra stars. Our server plays every round again to check its stars before they count. Players are ranked by their stars that month, and a tie goes to whoever reached that total first. Players taken off the boards for cheating are left out, and the places below them move up.

When

Each month's leaderboard closes at 12am Sydney time on the 1st of the next month. Prizes are given from 12am Sydney time on the 2nd: the first time our server runs on or after then, which can be some hours later. The next time you open Big Beam it shows where you finished, and your prize skins are in Skins.

Your prize

A prize belongs to your place on the leaderboards, not to a phone, and moves to a new phone with your backup link. It has no cash value, can't be swapped for money or anything else, and is not transferable. Removing yourself from the boards removes your prizes too.

Who runs them

The prizes are run by Big Beam. Apple and Google are not sponsors and are not involved. If these rules change, the new version will be posted here with a new date, and it never changes a month already under way.

Contact

Questions about the prizes: see the support page.