Privacy
What Blurd stores, which is not very much, and what it never asks for.
The short version. Blurd has no accounts and never asks for your name, your email address or anything else about you. It sets one cookie containing a random number, so the site can recognise a returning browser and show you the round you left unfinished. It keeps a record of the puzzles that browser played and the words it guessed. That is the whole of it.
What is stored
One cookie
On your first visit Blurd sets a cookie called gw_player. It
holds a randomly generated identifier — not a name, not an email address, not
anything derived from you or your device. It exists so the server can tell that
today's guesses and tomorrow's guesses came from the same browser, which is
what makes an unfinished round still be there when you come back, and what
makes your statistics yours.
The cookie lasts a year, is marked HttpOnly so no script on the
page can read it, and is restricted to this site. It is not shared with anyone
and it is not used to follow you anywhere else.
A setting in your own browser
If you turn on picture descriptions, that preference is saved in your
browser's local storage under blurd.pictureDescriptions. It never
leaves your device and the server is never told about it.
A record of play
For each round, Blurd's server stores which puzzle it was, the calendar date you played it on, every word you guessed with how warm it scored and when you sent it, how many hints you took, and when you started and finished. That record is attached to the random identifier in the cookie and to nothing else.
It is used to run the game — showing you an in-progress round, working out your statistics — and, in aggregate, to see which puzzles are too hard, which ones people give up on, and whether anybody is coming back. That last part is the entire reason the record exists; there is no separate analytics service watching you.
What is never collected
- No name, email address, password or account of any kind.
- No payment details. Blurd is free and has nothing to buy.
- No location, no contacts, no device fingerprinting.
- No third-party analytics or tracking scripts.
Advertising
Blurd shows advertising. It is a free game with real running costs, and this is how they are paid for. What that means for you:
- Ads are served by Google AdSense.
- Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads based on your visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings, and opt out of some third-party vendors' use of cookies at aboutads.info/choices.
- Ad cookies are set by the advertiser, not by Blurd, and Blurd is not given your identity by them. Nothing about your guesses or your statistics is passed to an advertiser.
Children
Blurd is suitable for a general audience but it is not directed at children under 13, and it does not knowingly collect information from them. Since it collects no personal information from anybody, there is nothing here that identifies a child. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this site, write to hello@blurdgame.com and it will be removed.
How long it is kept, and how to erase it
Play records are kept while the game is running, because a five-year-old result is still your result. There is no expiry sweep.
You can disconnect yourself from your record at any time by clearing cookies
for this site. Your next visit generates a fresh random identifier, the old
record is no longer reachable by anyone including us, and your statistics start
over. If you would rather the record were deleted outright, write to hello@blurdgame.com
— you will need to send the identifier from your gw_player cookie,
since it is the only thing connecting the record to you.
Where it lives
Blurd runs on rented server infrastructure, which means the hosting provider necessarily handles the traffic in transit. The site is served over an encrypted connection.
Changes to this policy
If what Blurd stores changes, this page changes with it and the date below moves. Nothing already collected will be put to a new use without saying so here first.
Questions
Write to hello@blurdgame.com.
Last updated 29 August 2026.