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Privacy policy

The short version: we store what the game needs to work, nothing is sold, there are no ads or ad trackers, and you can ask us to delete your data at any time.

Last updated 13 September 2026.

If you play as a guest

You can play solo, the daily puzzle and rooms without an account. In that case we keep:

• Room state. When you're in a room, the puzzle's settings, piece positions and the display name you chose are stored on our server so the room can be resumed. An empty room is deleted 3 days after it was last played (14 days if a signed-in player has been in it), and a room where no puzzle ever started is deleted after 10 minutes.
• A daily visit record. One row per browser per day with the kind of device (phone, tablet or computer), operating system, browser, screen size, language, time zone, country (from our hosting provider), a shortened browser identification string, and the ?ref= tag of the link you arrived from, if any. It's linked to a random ID your browser keeps, not to you. We don't store your IP address. If your browser blocks storage, the day's ID is a one-way hash of your IP address, browser and date.
• Anonymous counts. Daily totals such as "puzzles started by guests" or "sign-in windows closed", with no ID of any kind attached.
• Your game on your device. Your browser stores an unfinished solo or daily puzzle, your board settings, and whether you've played before, in its local storage. This never leaves your device unless you sign in.

If you sign in

Signing in uses Google. From your Google account we receive and store your name, email address and profile picture, and Google's ID for your account. We don't get your password or anything else from your Google account. Then we also store:

• Your games: solve times, piece counts, which picture, mode, date, pieces moved, XP, coins, level, badges and streak.
• Who you played with: the name and picture of the other player in a co-op game, so your game history can show it.
• Leaderboards: your name, picture and best times appear on public leaderboards. You can stop your solo times from counting in settings.
• Friends: friend requests you send or accept, and, unless you turn it off in settings, activity your friends can see (for example that you're playing).
• Saved puzzles: an unfinished solo or daily puzzle, so you can continue on another device.
• Rooms you created, so they appear in your list to continue.
• Sessions: a record of each sign-in so it can expire or be signed out everywhere.
• Settings you choose in the game.

Your visit record for the day is linked to your account once you sign in.

Photos you upload

If you make a puzzle from your own photo, it's resized on your device and uploaded to our storage. It's stored at an unguessable address and loaded only by puzzles that use it, so the only people who see it are you and anyone you share a room with. Photos are kept until you ask us to delete them. Don't upload pictures you don't have the right to share.

Feedback you send

When you use the contact form or rate a puzzle on the win screen, we store what you wrote, the star rating, the reply contact you chose to give (if any), the page and puzzle it came from, the kind of device, country, and a shortened browser identification string. If you're signed in on that browser, it's linked to your account. We use feedback only to improve the game and to answer you.

Services involved

• Cloudflare runs our game server, database and photo storage.
• Netlify hosts the website files.
• Google provides sign-in. The Google sign-in button is loaded from Google, which is subject to Google's privacy policy.
• Lorem Picsum supplies the stock puzzle pictures. Your browser downloads those images directly from picsum.photos.

These providers process data only to deliver their service to us. We don't use advertising networks, analytics companies or tracking pixels, and we don't sell or share your data for marketing.

Cookies

We don't set cookies. Sign-in is kept in your browser's local storage, along with the game preferences described above. Google may set its own cookies when you use its sign-in button.

Children

Children can play as guests without giving any personal information. Signing in requires a Google account, which has its own age requirements.

Deleting your data

Choose "My account or data" on the contact form and tell us what to delete: your whole account, your game history, feedback, or specific photos. Send it from a browser where you're signed in so we know which account it's about, and leave a way to reach you if you'd like us to confirm when it's done. Signing out removes your sign-in from that browser, and clearing your browser's site data removes everything stored on your device.

Changes

If we change what we collect, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about privacy: use the contact form.