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. We’re preparing a paid All Access plan for readers who want the full archive and a little extra; it isn’t live yet. When it is, any recurring charge, its price, and how to cancel will be spelled out plainly before you pay, and payment will run through a third-party processor — we never see or store your full card number. Until then, nothing on the site costs anything.

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.