Howbigle

Howbigle

Privacy

Howbigle does not require an account. Daily scores, your streak, and your best completed total are stored in your browser so this device can show what you already finished. Clearing the site’s data will erase them. There is no login, and switching devices does not carry those records over. For privacy questions, email hello@howbigle.com.

What stays on your device

The daily game saves the date, your guesses, your scores, and whether you finished the five rounds. Unlimited practice only stores a count of finished rounds. Your browser also stores a random anonymous ID (howbigle:aid) in localStorage, not as a cookie, so we can tell whether this device came back on a later game day and can avoid counting the same play twice. It is not a name, email address, or account. Clearing the site’s data erases the game record and the anonymous ID. We do not sell that ID or use it for cross-site advertising.

If you share a result, the text is the puzzle number, your total out of 500, five colour squares, and howbigle.com. It does not include the object names or the true sizes.

What the site itself records

When you play, we record these game events: starting a game, the score for each locked-in guess (not the object name, your guess, or the true size), your total score when you finish, a successful share or copy of your result, and a return-visit signal if this device already played on an earlier game day. Game days follow America/New_York, including daylight-saving changes. We use these records to count real players, completion rate, average score, share rate, and next-day return. The events are stored in a Cloudflare D1 database that belongs to this site. We do not collect your name, email address, or IP address in plain text for this.

Cloudflare hosts the site and processes the technical requests used to deliver it. Google AdSense is prepared in the page layout but is not turned on in this version, so that advertising script is not loaded. Google Analytics 4, when enabled, may set first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by a measurement identifier, which Google uses to measure visits; those are Google cookies, not Howbigle account cookies. If GA4 is not enabled, the gtag script is not loaded and those cookies are not set by this site. Cloudflare Web Analytics is also prepared in the layout; it is not turned on in this version, so its beacon is not loaded. If that changes, this page will say so.

Services currently configured

  • Google AdSense is disabled. No advertising script is loaded.
  • Cloudflare Web Analytics is disabled. No analytics beacon is loaded.
  • Game events are stored in a site-owned Cloudflare D1 database. Your browser keeps a random anonymous ID (howbigle:aid) so we can count return visits and avoid counting the same play twice. We record starts, the score for each locked-in guess (not the object or your guess), completed totals, successful shares, and return visits. Game days follow America/New_York.
  • Google Analytics 4 is enabled. Google may set first-party cookies named _ga and _ga_ followed by a measurement identifier.

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