The rules, in full
Short on purpose and complete on purpose. Everything that decides what you get is here, and every number can be checked against the map itself. If something is unclear, that is a problem with this page and worth an email.
What you are buying
One territory on one continent
The world holds 90 territories and there will never be more. Your name and link sit on yours, on the map and in the list beneath it.
At a price that is share of the land
From $3 to $5, set by how much of the continent a territory covers. That is the whole formula. We cannot quote one person differently from another, because we are not the ones computing it.
Shared by up to 4
A territory holds 4 places. While one is free, anybody can take it for the territory’s published price, and co-holders are equals — there is no ranking between them and no first-among-them.
Takeable only when full
Once every place is filled, the cheapest claim can be taken for $3 more than that holder paid. They lose the land and are refunded 50% of their payment. Nothing else about a claim makes it vulnerable — not its age, not its owner, only its price. Paying more than your co-holders is what keeps you safe.
Land sold before invasion existed is protected
Those territories were bought under a promise that they could never be taken, so they never can be. They are marked as protected and are skipped when the board works out which claim is weakest, however little was paid for them. A board whose pitch is that its rules are honest does not rewrite a deal after taking the money.
On a world that cannot change
The map and its territories were generated once from published seed 20260825 and committed. Nothing regenerates at runtime, so no border moves and no territory is ever redrawn under its holder.
How a claim happens
Granted only when the money arrives
A territory is granted when the payment actually settles, confirmed with the processor — not when checkout opens. An abandoned checkout holds nothing.
First payment to settle wins
If two people pay into the same place in the same moment — two sharers for one free slot, or two invaders pricing against the same holder — the first payment to settle takes it and the second is refunded in full. The database enforces this, so it cannot come down to who we noticed first.
The price is worked out when you pay, not when you looked
A territory that had a free place when you opened the map may be full by the time you pay, and a territory you meant to invade may have changed hands. What you are charged is always computed against the board as it stands at checkout, so you never pay yesterday’s price for today’s land.
A second claim is a second territory
Claiming again with the same URL adds another place under the same name, on this territory or any other. Territories are never enlarged or merged, because that would move somebody else’s border.
If it cannot be granted, it is refunded
Claimed territories are not offered for sale. If a payment somehow settles for land already taken, it is recorded as owed and refunded — never quietly kept.
What is not promised
Traffic
No visitor count is promised at any price. Every holder reports the clicks their territory has actually sent, and the board reports its own visitors and who is on it now, so the figures you would judge the purchase by are public before and after you make it.
Endorsement
Every territory is advertising. Nothing on the map has been reviewed, tested or ranked by quality, and a large territory means only that somebody paid for a large territory.
Refunds
Payments are final, because the territory is granted on confirmation. The single exception: if a payment is taken and no territory appears, email hello@outnumber.lol and it is granted by hand or refunded in full.
That a listing stays up regardless
A territory whose link goes to malware, illegal material or something plainly deceptive is removed without a refund, and the land goes back on sale. That is the only reason a territory ever changes hands.
The numbers, openly
90 territories, $3 to $5. If every single one sold, the board would have taken $291. That is stated here rather than left to be worked out, because a board asking strangers for money should not be coy about how much it is asking for in total. Live figures are on the stats page.