Privacy policy

Last updated October 13, 2026

Slimeantics is a free daily word game at slimeantics.com. There are no accounts on the website, and the game itself sets no cookies. You can also play inside Discord, where you sign in with your Discord account; Playing in Discord explains what that adds. We plan to show ads through Google AdSense to keep the game free; the advertising section explains what that involves. This page explains the little data the game handles.

Stored on your device

The game saves a few things in your browser's local storage so you can pick up where you left off:

• Your progress on today's puzzle and any Unlimited round in progress
• Your lifetime stats and streak
• Whether you've seen the "How to play" screen, and whether sound is on

This data stays in your browser. The one exception is each finished round's scores, daily or Unlimited, sent as described below; on the website, your stats, streak and history are never sent. (Inside Discord, signed-in players also get a server backup; see Playing in Discord.) You can delete it at any time by clearing this site's data in your browser settings, which also resets your stats and streak.

Guesses we record

Each time you submit a guess or give up on a word, the game sends a small, anonymous record to our server. We use these records to find good answers the game should accept, spot confusing clues, and support regional spellings. Each record contains:

We do not store your IP address, browser details, or anything that identifies you. The random ID changes every round and isn't tied to a device or person. Because these records aren't linked to you, we can't find or delete one person's guesses; we keep them as long as they help improve the game. (If you play in Discord, see Playing in Discord for how your Discord data relates to these records.)

When you finish the daily puzzle, the results screen shows how many other players gave the same answers. Those are totals counted from these records; no individual guess or player is ever shown.

Scores we record

When you finish a round, daily or Unlimited, the game sends your scores for that round to our server. For the daily puzzle, the results screen uses them to show how you did against everyone else that day, such as "Top 10% of 2,400 players today," and to mark each word's average score on your chart. Scores from both modes also show us which words play too hard or too easy, so we can improve the word list. Each record contains:

Unlimited scores are never used for daily rankings or averages, and Unlimited rounds still don't affect your stats or streak. As with guesses, nothing here identifies you, and the ranking and averages you see are computed from all players' scores combined; no other player's score is ever shown individually.

Playing in Discord

Slimeantics can also be played as a Discord Activity. None of this applies on the website, which never asks you to sign in. Inside Discord:

• Signing in. When you start the game, Discord asks whether to share your Discord identity with Slimeantics. We ask only for the basic "identify" permission and keep only your Discord user ID. We don't receive your email, your messages or your list of servers. The access Discord grants us is used once, to learn your user ID, and isn't stored. If you decline, you can still play; nothing is posted or backed up.
• Your name in channel messages. Channel messages show your Discord name, score and (if you're in the top three) profile picture unless you turn that off. The first time you play in Discord, before your name or any result of yours is posted, the game tells you this and offers a "Don't show my name" button. You can change your choice at any time with the "Show my name and score in channel messages" switch on the 📊 stats screen or the results screen. It applies in every channel.
• Results posted in the channel. When you open the game in a server channel where nobody is playing, the Slimeantics bot posts a message there saying you're playing. Anyone who joins while you're playing is added to the same message, and once everyone has left it says who was playing; the next person to start gets a new message, or, if they already started one in that channel today or already finished that day's puzzle in that server, the channel's latest message from that day is brought back instead (if it has none, nothing is posted). While you play the daily puzzle, that message shows a colored square for each word you've finished and your score so far, and once you finish, your total score and seven squares, best score first, alongside the others in it; the top three are shown with their Discord profile picture. After the day ends at midnight US Eastern time, it posts a recap of the day in that channel with the server's streak (how many days in a row someone in the server has played). Each message names up to 20 players and counts the rest as "…and N more". Everyone who can read the channel can see these messages. Your name appears as a Discord mention. The "playing" message doesn't notify you, but the recap does, the way a mention from a friend would; if you've turned it off, you're counted only as one more player. Opening the game in another channel of the same server after you've finished adds that day's score to that channel's message if someone is playing there or it already has one from that day; in another server, it starts one as usual. Once you've finished the daily puzzle, your results screen in the game also lists that channel's players for the day by their Discord display name, with their scores, including those still playing; players who turned off their name aren't listed there either.
• Changing your mind later. Switching your choice updates the current day's messages (and the previous day's, if you finished just after midnight) straight away. Earlier messages and recaps the bot already posted stay as they are in the channel's history, which the server's moderators can delete; asking us to delete your data (below) takes you off them too.
• Channel results. For each daily puzzle you finish in a Discord server, we store your Discord user ID, the server and channel IDs, your total and per-word scores, and when you finished, plus your choice about being named. For each "playing" message, we store who started it, which players it lists, when each joined, whether they're still playing, and each one's word scores so far. Your first score each day is the one that counts, even if you play again. Games in direct messages aren't recorded or posted.
• Backup of your progress. Inside Discord, your progress, stats and streak are saved on your device, separately from the website's, and phones or Discord may clear that storage. So while you're signed in we also keep one backup copy on our server, linked to your Discord user ID: your stats (games played, total and best score, streaks, and each day's score) and your most recent daily round (which words you've finished, with each one's score, hints used, number of wrong guesses, and the answer you gave if it was accepted). The words you tried that were wrong are never sent, and neither is the random round ID used for the anonymous records above. The backup is updated each time you open or play the game in Discord, and if your device's copy is ever cleared, the game restores it.
• Server commands. /play and /slimeantics open the game in the channel, like the Play button. Anyone in a server with the Slimeantics bot can also use /leaderboard (the server's top players by total points, all time or recently), /stats (a player's days played, points, average, best score and streak in that server) and /history (the server's days played, players, streak, busiest day and best round, with who played it). These show only results from that server. If you've turned off your name, you're left out of leaderboards and the best round, and only you can see your /stats, privately.
• How long we keep it. Backups are deleted automatically after 12 months without opening the game in Discord. Channel results and "playing" message records are kept for as long as Slimeantics runs, because the server commands above look back through them; you can have yours deleted at any time (see below). To count each server's streak quickly, we also store which days its current streak began and last played, with the server's ID and nothing about who played. A choice not to be named is kept until you change it or ask us to delete your data, so it never lapses.

Unlike the anonymous records above, this data is linked to your Discord account, so we can find it: email us with your Discord username or user ID and we'll send you a copy or delete all of it. Deleting it also takes you off every message the bot has posted that lists you: each one is edited to leave you out, or deleted if nobody else is on it. A message in a channel the bot can no longer reach stays, and that server's moderators can delete it. Your guesses and anonymous score records are stored separately and never with your Discord ID, and we don't link them. Because your channel results include your scores and when you finished, they could in principle be matched against the anonymous score records, so when you ask us to delete your Discord data we delete the channel results and backup that would make that possible. Discord itself handles your use of Discord under Discord's privacy policy.

Hosting

The site is hosted on Cloudflare. Like any web host, Cloudflare necessarily processes your IP address and standard request information to deliver pages and protect the site from abuse, and keeps short-lived operational logs. That processing is covered by Cloudflare's privacy policy. The country code above comes from Cloudflare; your IP address itself is not saved with your guesses.

Advertising and cookies

To pay for hosting and keep Slimeantics free, we use or plan to use Google AdSense to show ads. When ads appear on the site:

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google's Ads Settings. You can also opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies for personalized advertising at aboutads.info.
• Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland will be asked for consent before personalized ads or advertising cookies are used, and can change that choice at any time.

These cookies are set by Google and its ad partners, not by the game, and the data they collect is handled under Google's policy on how it uses information from sites that use its services and Google's privacy policy. Ads never see your guesses, scores, or stats.

Sharing your results

The Share button copies your score summary to your clipboard or opens your device's share sheet; inside Discord, it opens Discord's share dialog. Nothing is posted anywhere unless you choose to paste or send it, apart from the channel messages described under Playing in Discord.

Links to other sites

The credits link to the sources of our word data, such as GitHub. Those sites have their own privacy policies.

Children

Slimeantics is a general-audience game and isn't directed to children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect personal information from them. The website asks for none from anyone. Inside Discord, which requires its users to be at least 13 (or older where local law requires), we keep the Discord-linked data described under Playing in Discord and show players' names, scores and profile pictures in channel messages as described there. If you believe a child under 13 has played in Discord, email us with their Discord username or user ID and we'll delete everything we hold about them and take them off the bot's messages.

Changes

If what the game collects changes, including when ads go live, we'll update this page and the date at the top.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@slimeantics.com or see the contact page.