The rules
- One account per person. No second accounts to get more drops or hints.
- Hunt it yourself. Solve clues on your own or with friends. Don’t use bots, scripts, automated tools or AI agents to search the globe or make drops for you.
- No spoilers while a hunt is live. Don’t post or sell a Mark’s location, or the answer to a clue, until the hunt closes. Talk about the clues all you like.
- Stay on the globe. Every Mark is found on the map. Don’t go to the real places: many are private property.
- No hacking. Don’t probe our servers or apps to find a Mark.
How we keep it fair
- Mark locations never leave our server. Your app only sends where you dropped your X; the server says whether it’s marked. There is nothing in the app or the page to dig out.
- No hotter or colder. A drop is marked or it isn’t, so guessing in a grid doesn’t work.
- Drop limits. Drops are limited per account, device and network each hour, and a miss adds time to your clock.
- Our server’s clock. Every drop, find and hint is timed when our server receives it.
- AI agents and bots are turned away. They may read our public pages, but not open a hunt or make a drop.
- Reviews. Unusual patterns, like several accounts on one network finding a Mark within seconds, are flagged for review.
- Our own team can’t win. Anyone who can see Mark locations can’t play the Bounty.
If we find cheating
We may remove finds from the Board, take away a prize, or close the account. If you think we got it wrong, write to us and a person will look again.
Report something
Seen answers posted during a live hunt, or a hunter who can’t be real? Email support@xmarksthespot.club. See also our terms.