Nobody pays a cent.
We don't charge, don't take cards, don't run ads that pretend you can win. If a button asks for money, it isn't ours. Close the tab and email us.
● 18+ social play · points only · no cash, no prizes
Spin the globe.
Stamp the passport.
korb is one game. One game about getting around the world on points you can't buy and don't ever cash out. You're here for the trip, not the payout.
- A1 18+ only
- B2 points have no value
- C3 nothing to deposit
§ 01 · dispatch
We made one game.
We made one game.
It's about getting around.
Welcome in. korb is a small social platform with a single, stubborn idea — that play doesn't need a payout to be worth your evening. Spin the globe, earn points, lose them. Nobody owes you anything.
Some folks come for ten minutes between meetings. Some stay an hour. Both are right. The game keeps moving whether you're watching or not.
§ 02 · how it goes
Three moves. That's it.
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i
Spin the globe.
A city pops up. Could be Lisbon, could be a town you've never heard of in northern Mongolia. We don't pick — geography does.
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ii
Guess where it is.
Tap the map. Closer guess, more points. The points stay points. They go nowhere, do nothing, mean nothing outside the game.
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iii
Stamp the passport.
A little ink hits the page. You earned a marker. That's the whole reward. Some people find this enough. The rest find another site.
§ 03 · play a hand
Try a round on the house.
Below: a tiny taste of the game. No account, no credits, no anything. Tap a destination, watch the stamp land, see what you'd get if this counted. It doesn't.
pick somewhere — anywhere
↑ this is a demo. nothing is logged, no points are saved, your score when you close the tab is the same score you had before opening it: zero.
§ 04 · why bother
A short list of actual reasons.
Most platforms write this section to hide what they want from you. Ours is honest because there isn't anything to hide.
One game, done well.
Travel. That's the whole catalogue. Saves you a menu.
Adults, by design.
Age-gated at the door, written for grown people, no flashing lights or fake urgency. The pace is yours.
Points stay points.
They don't convert. Not to cash, not to skins, not to "premium tier currency" or any of the laundered names that used to mean money. We picked a number, stuck a label on it, and that's where it ends.
§ 05 · the term
social platform
/ˈsoʊʃəl ˈplætfɔːrm/ noun · korb sense-
1.
A place built for play between people, where the score doesn't translate into anything outside the room. korb is a social platform; the "rewards" are imaginary by design.
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2.
Distinct from "real-money gaming" in the only way that matters: nothing real changes hands. Compare with a board game, not a casino.
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3.
colloquial. The kind of corner of the internet where you log off slightly less wired than when you logged on.
— korb in-house glossary, edition iii
§ 06 · the duo
Two people. One small office.
Two people. One small office.
That's the whole company.
No founders' page with twelve smiling stock-photo executives. It's just us. We answer the email. We break the build. We fix the build.
i
Mira K.
design · research · the maps
Mira draws every screen twice and throws the first one out. She's the reason the buttons are where you'd expect them. Speaks four languages, three of them politely.
ii
Osher V.
code · ops · the servers
Osher writes the backend and runs the boxes it lives on. Maintains a questionable opinion that databases have feelings. We don't argue.
§ 07 · the boarding pass
Done reading? The reels are up.
one game · five reels · zero dollars
Five reels. Three rows. Travel-stamp symbols you've already met in the paytable. The points are decorative — see the strip at the top of every page if you forgot — and the only thing the game tracks is whether you had fun.
- 18+ only
- no money in or out
- points stay points
§ 08 · questions, three
Questions we get a lot.
Can I win real money on korb?
No. Points are points. You can't deposit, you can't withdraw, and there is nothing on the platform you can convert into cash, gift cards, or goods. If someone tells you otherwise — even someone who says they work here — they don't.
Do I need to be 18?
Yes. korb is for adults. We gate at the door, we ask once, and we don't make exceptions. If you're not 18, please come back when you are — the game will still be here.
How many games are there?
One. We chose a single thing — a travel-guessing loop — and we keep polishing it. We'd rather do that one well than ship ten things you'd swipe past.
§ 09 · a small confession
Why travel, of all things?
Honestly? Because it's the only subject where everyone we know lights up in the same way. You ask someone about their job and they hedge. You ask them about a trip they took six years ago and you'll be there an hour. There's something in geography that bypasses the part of us that's tired.
Most of us aren't going to ride a night train across the steppe this year. We've got rent. We've got Tuesday. So we built a little place where you can think about somewhere else for fifteen minutes — guess where a photograph was taken, see if you knew the river runs east not west, collect a stamp for your imaginary book — and then close the tab and finish the dishes.
That's the whole pitch. It's not a substitute for a passport. It's a reminder one exists.
— m. & o., somewhere indoors