Beat the Streak is back for another exciting season in 2024. Will this be the year someone takes home the $5.6 million grand prize?

• Play Beat the Streak

Since 2001, the free-to-play contest has challenged fans to pursue one of the most hallowed records in sports history: Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, set in 1941. More than 5 million unique users have participated in Beat the Streak since the contest’s inception, but nobody has topped 56. In fact, the longest streak on record is 51, which has been accomplished by two people.

The object of Beat the Streak is to build a virtual "hitting streak" by picking an MLB player to record a hit on a particular day, with an eye on eventually topping DiMaggio’s streak. If your pick records a hit that day, your streak increases by one. If not, your score reverts to zero (provided the player had an official at-bat or sacrifice fly). You can also pick two players via the “Double Down” feature, which gives you the potential to increase your streak by two in one day. However, if one of those players goes hitless, your streak ends.

Users aren’t required to make a pick every day. If you don’t enter a pick on a particular day, your streak will be preserved at your then-current score until you make another pick. Additionally, Beat the Streak includes a one-time “Streak Saver” feature that automatically preserves an entrant's streak when it would otherwise end and revert to zero, for streaks of at least 10 games but no longer than 15.

You can play it here.