Just wrapped up my X Empire session before the mining phase ended back in 2024 - man, that was intense with the whole airdrop countdown happening. Managed to nail all the daily riddle of the day challenges that last week, including that one about free tokens (airdrop, obviously) and the exchange rebus. The combo cards were pretty solid too - diamonds, Nigerian real estate, and unicorn breeding setups were printing coins like crazy.

What's wild is how many people actually stuck with it. Like 45 million active players at peak, and they ended up with 12.5 million wallets eligible for the airdrop. The NFT voucher market on Getgems was insane too - over 60k vouchers traded, worth billions in X tokens.

For anyone looking back at how X Empire worked, the tokenomics were actually pretty fair. 690 billion total supply split 70-30 between miners and future development. No lockups or vesting nonsense, which was refreshing. The daily riddle of the day mechanic kept things engaging - you'd get your free coins from solving those, plus whatever you made from the investment cards and voucher trading.

If you're curious about it now, the whole thing was basically a Telegram game that actually delivered on the airdrop promise in October 2024. Pretty rare for these things honestly. The daily riddle of the day format was simple but addictive - beat the clock, grab your rewards, rinse and repeat.