Money guides
The game hands you $1,000,000,000,000 for fun. These guides handle the facts: how big that number really is, what the most expensive things on Earth actually cost, and how the world’s largest fortunes got built. Curiosity first, sources attached.
Play the game
The rules, the strategies, and the answers — everything about the trillion-dollar shopping run itself.
How to play SpendElonMoney
One wallet, one timer, one checkout. The full rules of the trillion-dollar shopping run, in two minutes.
Read the guide →Tips & strategy: how to actually spend $1 trillion in time
Most players run out of clock with $900 billion left. The cart math that fixes that, timer by timer.
Read the guide →Frequently asked questions
Is it free? Is any of it real? Why $1 trillion? Every question we keep getting, answered straight.
Read the guide →Spending guides
What enormous money actually means: how big a trillion is, what the priciest things on Earth cost, and why spending feels the way it does.
How much is a trillion dollars, really?
Spending $1 a second, you'd need 31,710 years. Eight more comparisons that make twelve zeros feel real.
Read the guide →The most expensive things humans have ever paid for
A painting worth $450M, a car worth $142M, and one object that cost more than most countries earn in a year.
Read the guide →What money can actually buy (it's more than you think)
Citizenship, orbit, an NBA franchise, your name on a stadium. A price list for things you didn't know were for sale.
Read the guide →The psychology of spending money
Your brain treats found money differently from earned money. The research that explains why blowing $1T is so fun.
Read the guide →Billionaire wealth
The factual side of the joke: where the biggest fortunes sit, how they were built, and how close anyone is to a real trillion.
How do you make a trillion dollars?
A $100k salary would need 10 million years. The only realistic route runs through owning a chunk of something enormous.
Read the guide →The world's 10 richest people, side by side
One of them once gained about $100 billion in a single day. How the top ten stack up — and why the list keeps reshuffling.
Read the guide →Elon Musk's net worth, broken down piece by piece
It's mostly not cash. How Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI stack into one of history's largest fortunes — and why it moves daily.
Read the guide →How Elon Musk made his money, step by step
He put almost everything from PayPal into two companies people called doomed. The full timeline, deal by deal.
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