Privacy

Last updated 9 November 2026.

Uncommon is a daily word game. This page explains what the web version keeps and why. It is written to be read, not to hide behind.

What we keep

• A random player ID in a cookie, so your answers, score and streak belong to you.
• A display name generated from that ID (for example player-a1b2c3). You can play without giving us an email or a real name. If you pick a name for the leaderboard, we keep that name instead and show it on the lists.
• Your answers for each day's round and when you pressed Start, so the one-minute timer is fair.
• Your votes when you judge other players' answers, so nobody can vote twice.
• Your streak and bests: the last day you played, the streak, your best day and how many lone answers you have had.
• Your weekly and all-time points, for the lists.
• Daily reminders, only if you turn them on: your browser’s push address, the hour you want the reminder and your time zone. Turn them off in your browser’s site settings, and we delete the address when the browser tells us it is gone.

How long

• Each day's answers, votes and scores are kept for about 8 days, then removed.
• Your streak and bests are removed 30 days after you last played.
• All-time points stay while the game runs unless you ask us to remove them.
• The player cookie lasts up to one year, or until you clear it.

What we do not do

• No ads, no third-party tracking, no selling or sharing of your data.
• No posts as you. The web version has no Reddit comment button.
• Your sound setting and unfinished answers stay in your own browser.

Where it is stored

The game runs on our own server and stores its data with our hosting provider. It does not use Reddit on the web. We count visits and rounds per day as plain totals, with no cookies for it and nothing about who you are.

Some answers are checked by an AI judge (Anthropic’s Claude): in the Spanish game every new answer, and in English answers no player judged in time. Only the answer, its category and the day’s letter are sent, never your player name. Anthropic does not use this to train its models.

Removing your data

Clear the site's cookies in your browser to start a new anonymous player. To ask us to remove a specific streak or answer, message the moderators of r/UncommonGame.

Uncommon is an independent game. It is not affiliated with Hasbro.