Terms of Use

Effective date: 12 July 2026

Use of the site

You may use World Clue for personal, educational, and general informational purposes. You agree not to misuse the site, interfere with its operation, or attempt to bypass technical protections or rate limits.

Accounts

You may create a World Clue account using an email address and password or by signing in with Google. By creating an account you agree to these Terms of Use and acknowledge the Privacy Policy, including its fair-play monitoring notice. You:

• Must be at least 16 years old, or have verifiable parental or guardian consent, to create an account.
• Agree to provide accurate information and keep it up to date.
• Agree to keep your credentials confidential and not share your account.
• Accept responsibility for all activity that occurs under your account.

You may delete your account at any time through the Account settings page. Deletion removes your profile and login methods, and unlinks your game results. This action is irreversible.

Gameplay, rankings, and rewards

World Clue includes daily games, archive games, practice, leaderboards, public profiles, seasons, and reward features. Scores, rankings, rewards, and feature availability may change over time as the project evolves. We may correct, remove, or disregard results that appear fraudulent, abusive, automated, or otherwise inconsistent with fair play.

Account suspension or termination

We reserve the right to suspend or terminate accounts that violate these terms, engage in abusive behaviour, or compromise the experience for other users — with or without prior notice.

Display names and public content

Your display name, avatar, public profile, leaderboard entries, scores, game history summaries, and season rewards may be visible to other users. If you do not set a custom display name, your name may be abbreviated (e.g. "FirstName L.") for privacy. You agree not to use a display name or profile information that is offensive, misleading, unlawful, or impersonates another person.

Competitive daily fair play

The current daily game permits one competitive attempt per person. While a country is unfinished, a competitive player may use only their own knowledge and the clues, hints, maps, bonus question, and controls provided inside the active daily game. External search engines, maps, reference sites, AI tools, and other outside sources must not be used to find or confirm an unfinished country. World Clue features outside the active daily, including Data explorer, Country explorer, archive games, and practice, must not be used for that purpose.

Another person may help only when they have not played, watched, or otherwise learned the answers to that daily; rely only on their existing knowledge and the permitted tools visible inside the active daily; and do not use Google, AI, external references, World Clue explorers, or another person to help find or confirm an answer. After helping with or seeing answers from the daily, that person must not later play the same daily competitively.

You may research a completed country between countries, after it has been revealed and before you continue to the next country, or after the entire daily is complete. Research between countries must not reveal, confirm, or narrow down another country that remains unfinished in the same daily. If you are unsure whether information could help with a remaining country, wait until the daily is complete.

You must not inspect or complete the daily as a guest or through another account before playing competitively, replay through another account or browser profile, share known answers, automate play, interfere with fair-play telemetry, or otherwise obtain advance knowledge. If you want to use a disallowed resource while solving an unfinished country, you must first disable competitive mode in Account settings or play logged out as a guest.

Every suspected case is reviewed manually. Competitive restrictions are applied only when the evidence considered as a whole strongly indicates a consistent pattern of cheating; a singular event or isolated irregularity is not sufficient on its own. We may remove an account from current and historical rankings and reward calculations or apply an indefinite competitive blacklist where the evidence supports a fair-play violation. To contest a decision, use the contact form and select Ban appeal. The complete rules are available on the Fair play rules page.

Content and accuracy

World Clue aggregates country information from public sources. While the project aims to provide useful and accurate information, content may contain errors, omissions, or outdated material. The site is provided on an "as-is" and "as-available" basis without warranties of any kind, express or implied.

Country facts, maps, travel-related fields, rankings, charts, and generated comparisons are provided for learning and general information only. They should not be treated as professional, legal, travel, financial, safety, or emergency advice. Source datasets remain subject to their own attribution and licence terms.

Limitation of liability

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the operator of World Clue shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, or any loss of data, profits, or goodwill arising out of or in connection with your use of or inability to use the site.

Availability

Features may change, be interrupted, or be removed without notice. Access to the site is not guaranteed at all times.

Fair use of gameplay features

You agree not to automate abusive submissions, manipulate scores, rankings, or fair-play telemetry, overload the service, scrape the site in ways that harm availability, or use World Clue in ways that degrade the experience for others.

Privacy

Your use of the site is also governed by our Privacy Policy, which explains what data we collect and how it is handled.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of Sweden. Any disputes arising from or relating to these terms or your use of the site shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of Sweden, without prejudice to any mandatory consumer-protection provisions of your country of residence under EU regulation.

Changes to the terms

These terms may be updated over time. The "Effective date" at the top of this page will reflect the latest revision. Account holders will be asked to accept a material new version before their next account-linked daily game.