Terms of Use

01 Using the site

Greatest Games publishes new original web games every day at midnight Eastern. By visiting the site and playing, you agree to these terms. If you don’t agree with them, the kind thing for both of us is not to use the site. These terms apply to everything under the greatest.games domain, the games, the archive, and the blog.

02 Your account

You can play without an account — your streak and stats live in your own browser. You can also create a free account to save your record across devices. Sign-in is passwordless: Google, Apple, or an emailed magic link, so there’s no password to lose. You’re responsible for what happens under your login — keep access to your email and linked logins to yourself, tell us if you think someone else has reached your account, and don’t impersonate another player or us. You can close your account at any time by writing to us.

03 Subscriptions & payment

The daily lineup is free, and it stays free. Greatest Games Plus is our optional paid plan. It removes ads, opens the full archive, and supports the work. Features marked “coming soon” are not part of what you pay for until they launch.

Plans and prices. Plus comes in three forms, all in US dollars: Monthly at $5 a month, Annual at $40 a year, and Lifetime at $100, paid once. For a limited time, Annual costs $20 a year. If you buy Annual during that offer, your renewals stay at $20 a year for as long as your subscription stays active. Sales tax or VAT may be added where the law requires it. The price you pay is always shown before you confirm.

Automatic renewal. Monthly and Annual plans renew automatically at the end of each period, at the price shown when you bought, and we charge the payment method on file. They keep renewing until you cancel. Before an Annual plan renews, we email you a reminder.

Cancelling. You can cancel any time, online, from the subscribe page (“Manage billing”). Cancel before your renewal date and you will not be charged again. Plus stays on until the end of the period you already paid for, then your account returns to the free plan.

Free trial. New members can try Annual free for 7 days, once per account. We ask for a card when the trial starts. If you do not cancel during the 7 days, we charge $20 on day 7 and the plan renews yearly from then. Cancel during the trial and you pay nothing.

Companion logins. The account that pays for Plus (the owner) can share it with other Greatest Games accounts: one on Monthly or Annual, three on Lifetime. The owner invites a companion by email or with a link. Each invite works once and expires after 14 days. A companion gets the same Plus features as the owner, for as long as the owner’s plan stays active, and loses them when it ends. The owner can remove a companion, and a companion can leave, at any time. A companion cannot invite others. The owner sees each companion’s display name and the email an invite went to.

Refunds. Payments are non-refundable, and we do not refund partial periods. Cancelling stops future charges. A Lifetime purchase is final once paid. If you move from Monthly or Annual to Lifetime, we end your subscription at once, and the unused time on it is not refunded. Deleting your account also ends your subscription, without a refund. If we charge you by mistake, such as twice for the same thing, we refund the mistake. Nothing here limits a refund right that the law where you live gives you.

Lifetime. “Lifetime” means for as long as we operate Greatest Games, not for a fixed number of years. With a Lifetime purchase, we send you one free tote bag as our gift. It is not part of what you pay for. We email you a link, and you enter your shipping address on the page of our merchandise partner, Fourthwall, which makes and ships the bag. We can ship only to places Fourthwall delivers to. The bag is a gift, has no cash value, and is not refundable on its own.

Price changes. We may change our prices for new purchases at any time. If we ever change the price of a plan you already pay for, we will email you before the change applies to a renewal, so you can cancel first.

Payment. Payments run through Stripe, our payment processor. Your card details go to Stripe directly. We never see or store your full card number.

04 Playing fair

Please don’t:

• Use bots, scripts, or automated solvers to play, or to harvest answers ahead of a puzzle’s publish date.
• Scrape, bulk-download, republish, or resell the games, the puzzle data, or the blog without our written say-so.
• Probe, overload, or interfere with the site’s normal operation, or try to reach data that isn’t yours.
• Harass other players or us, or post anything unlawful where the site lets you write to us.

05 What’s ours, what’s yours

The games, their names and marks, the design, the words on these pages, and the Greatest Games look are ours (or used with permission), and they stay that way. You’re welcome to share your own results — the score grids are made for it. Anything you send us, such as a bug report or a note, stays yours; you just give us permission to read it and act on it, including quoting feedback to improve the games.

06 No guarantees

The site is provided as is. We work hard to publish a clean puzzle every day, but we can’t promise the site will always be available, error-free, or to everyone’s taste. A clue may be arguable; a game may go down for a stretch. We’ll do our honest best to set it right, but we make no warranties beyond that.

07 Limits on liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Greatest Games isn’t liable for indirect or incidental losses arising from your use of the site — a lost streak, a contested answer, or downtime included. The games are a daily diversion, and these terms keep them that way for everyone.

We’d rather earn your visit every day than hold you to fine print. The fine print is just here so the games can keep coming.— Greatest Games

08 Ending things

You can stop using the site at any time; clearing your browser data takes your local streak with it. We may suspend or limit access if someone is abusing the games or breaking these terms — and we’d always rather warn first than wield it. If accounts exist and yours is closed, the sections meant to outlast it (ownership, disclaimers, liability) still apply.

09 Changes to these terms

If we change these terms in a way that matters, we’ll date it at the top and say plainly what changed. Carrying on with the games after a change means you’re fine with the new version. Questions about any of this go to us directly — we read everything.