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Guides

Practical help for your first life and the decisions that follow. Start with an answer, then explore the details.

Guides01

Your first life: what to do and when

Pause at decisions, use annual focus deliberately, and open the full spending menu. This walkthrough gets you from childhood to your first adult plan.

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Guides02

Where is the original 1in8b game?

Use 1in8b.life. Check the hostname before applying a guide, moving a save or paying for an optional keepsake.

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Guides03

Save a life or move it to another browser

Lives are stored in your browser. Use Move my lives for a transfer, then verify the destination before clearing the original storage.

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Guides04

Stop surprise spending and understand your budget

Expand Ways of living inside Spend & invest. Gifts, automatic purchases, investment losses and essential costs affect money in different ways.

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Guides05

University, degrees and better job offers

Knowledge helps, but school access and money still matter. Follow admission, subject choice, graduation and job offers as separate decisions.

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Guides06

Marriage, family and keeping relationships healthy

Make time for people before a crisis. Dinners, gifts and counseling can help the simulated relationship, but none guarantees that a marriage survives.

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Guides07

How to move abroad without overlooking the costs

Look into working abroad under Spend & invest, then review the next year’s visa, family and job conditions. Moving can end your current work.

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Guides08

Is 1in8b free, and what do keepsakes add?

The original says a full life and its final record are free. Optional keepsakes preserve the story; they do not improve its outcome.

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Guides09

How to get rich: tested choices and billionaire goals

Our tested life ended at 88 with about $886K after two businesses, a failed expansion and market crashes. Use its choices and setbacks to plan wealth goals without a guaranteed billionaire formula.

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Guides10

Stocks, bonds, property and debt: how investing works

Choose where savings are held under Ways of living. Displayed returns are averages after inflation; losses, country-specific fees and selling costs still matter.

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Guides11

How to start, finance and grow a business

Research ideas, compare financing and read the expansion warning. Our first law office sold for $231K; the second lost a $295K expansion and eventually closed.

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Guides12

Keep health from being forgotten during a wealth run

Revisit work focus, use available health actions and distinguish treatment from insurance. None removes the chance of illness or an early death.

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Guides13

Pause, speed, Next decision and hidden menus

Keep Auto mode off for a hands-on run. Use Pause for reading, Next decision for upcoming choices and Spend & invest for actions between major events.

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Guides14

An 88-year life: Bangladesh, Malaysia and back

Masud’s completed life ended in 2114 with wealth displayed as $886K. Follow the actual choices, failed expansion, business closure and return home—not a guaranteed success route.

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