korb runs on points that do not, and will never, convert into money or anything money buys. There is no deposit screen, no withdrawal, no in-app purchase, no premium tier, no skin marketplace. The score is the score. We mention this often because the gambling industry has spent decades blurring the line, and we'd rather be boring than ambiguous.
Even so, watch yourself.
Any repeated reward loop can pull on the wrong parts of your attention. A few signs to watch for: playing longer than you meant to and not noticing the time; coming back to the site when you're tired, anxious, or avoiding something else; feeling worse after a session than before it; thinking about the game during work or while you're with people you care about. None of these are catastrophic on their own. All of them are worth pausing on.
What we suggest.
Set a soft time budget before you open the site — twenty minutes is plenty. Close the tab when you reach it, even mid-round. If that feels hard, that's information. Talk to someone. The footer of this site lists four organisations whose entire job is to help people think clearly about play: GambleAware, the Low-Risk Gambling Guidelines, Gamblers Anonymous Toronto, and the Responsible Gambling Council. They cost nothing, the conversations are confidential, and they don't only talk to people in crisis.
For the people around the player.
If someone in your life is using korb in a way that worries you, ask them about it before you assume the worst. The platform is small enough that the answer is usually mundane — they like the maps. If the answer isn't, the same helplines listed above will speak with friends and family, not only the player.
If korb stops being fun, leave.
There is nothing here you'll miss. We mean that as both a feature of the platform and an instruction.