❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

No. You can jump straight into any standard game or 2-person Hangout immediately in your browser as a 🟡 Casual Guest with an automatically generated two-word moniker (e.g., swift-otter-48). We never ask for your email address, phone number, or social media login.

Click the blue ⓘ help button on any game card in the lobby or next to the game title inside the play arena. This opens the interactive Field Manual for that specific game, complete with a quick-start walkthrough, scoring tables, and control diagrams.

Daily Community Leaderboards rank all eligible solvers in the following order: Because tiles revealed via hints award 0 points and hint usage is the first tiebreaker, unassisted solvers naturally claim the top podium spots—while assisted solvers still get to finish the puzzle and post their official run!

To protect the Daily Leaderboard from automated bots and duplicate incognito submissions, official leaderboard submission and persistent multi-day streaks require at least 🔵 Passkey (Device) or 🟢 Installed & Linked verification. Securing your name takes one tap with your device lock and is 100% free.

Each official Daily Challenge can only be attempted once per day for leaderboard credit so that everyone competes on a level playing field. You can inspect 📅 Yesterday inside the Auxiliary Info drawer at any time to review yesterday's solutions and final standings, or launch unlimited Casual (Solo / Bots) puzzles in the same game mode whenever you want more practice.

No! Games and audio/video Hangouts are completely independent:

• Launching a match via 🔗 Quick Link, 👁️ Leisure, or ⏱️ Faceoff starts the game board with zero camera or microphone prompts.
• Conversely, you can launch a standalone 👥 Hangout from the 📱 Apps & Collaboration tray just to chat over audio/video without starting a game, and optionally click 🚀 Group Play inside the Hangout whenever your group wants to launch a game, 🎨 Whiteboard, or 🖥️ Screen Share together.

You never lose your progress! Answering an incoming Hangout call docks the video/audio panel cleanly on the right side while leaving your active solo board uninterrupted. If the Host launches a Group Activity, a [ 💾 Save Solo & Join ] banner automatically saves your solo game to the ⚔️ Matches tray so you can resume it later right where you left off.

Fun Credits (FC) are your universal virtual in-game assistance units across BeyondFunWords. Fun Credits have no financial or real-world monetary value and cannot be redeemed, sold, transferred, or cashed out. You earn them for free by playing:

• Welcome Grant: 10 FC on your very first visit.
• Daily Challenge Solve: +2 FC for completing any Daily Challenge (+3 FC total if solved cleanly with 0 hints!).
• 7-Day Streak Milestone: +5 FC every 7 consecutive days you solve a Daily.
• Tier Upgrades & Stipends: +5 FC for registering a Device Passkey, +10 FC for installing the app, and +10 FC on the 1st of every month for Installed players.

Look for the gold coin (🪙) hint actions in the game's action bar:

• 🔑 Letter / Cipher Key (2 FC): Reveals the exact letter for a selected crossword cell or deciphers an ancient rune in Codex.
• ⎵ Blank Wildcard Guess (2 FC): Places an on-demand blank wildcard tile to test word solutions even if you don't hold a blank in your rack.
• 💡 Vowel Hint (2 FC / 4 FC): Reveals the next hidden vowel in your active clue (2 FC in Solo/1v1/Public; 4 FC for a private stealth ghost vowel in 3+ player matches).
• 📖 Word Solution Reveal (6 FC): Completely solves the active target word when you are stumped.

Storage caps (20 FC Casual, 25 FC Passkey, 30 FC Installed) encourage you to spend your hints and enjoy tough puzzles rather than hoarding credits forever! (Bonus credits from Club Pass or Game Packs are stored as Paid FC and never count against your cap.)
If you ever run all the way down to 0 FC, you are never stuck:

1. In-Game Emergency Grant (2 Ephemeral FC): Every player at 0 FC is automatically granted 2 ephemeral FC inside any game—enough to use 1 standard 2 FC hint immediately.
2. Next-Day Floor Refill (2 FC): Returning on a subsequent calendar day with an empty vault automatically refills your wallet to 2 FC.

Strictly No. Fun Credits are exclusively an educational and puzzle-hint currency with no financial value and can never be wagered, staked, transferred between players, or redeemed for real money. Parlor and card games (such as Poker or Blackjack in Game Table) allocate free, session-only play chips at the start of each match purely for in-game score keeping; those chips reset after the match and have zero monetary or platform value.

All daily challenges, standard 7×7 catalog games, Spanish 7×7 flagship play, Episode 1 (“Pilot”) of every episodic Game Pack, 1 Bot opponent, and 2-person Audio/Video Hangouts of unlimited length are 100% free forever.
Upgrading to 👑 Club Pass ($2.99/month or $24.99/year, saving ~30%) unlocks the enthusiast suite:

• 🔥 Cloud-Synced Daily Streaks & Stats: Sync your daily streaks, min/avg/max solve times, and today/yesterday completion states across all linked devices (with automatic upgrade of existing device streaks).
• 🎙️ >2 Person Hangout Size: Host group calls with 3 to 6 participants (up to 6 on desktop, 4 on mobile).
• 🤖 >1 Bot Opponent: Add 2 to 5 bots to supported games.
• 🎮 Larger Game Grids: Host larger 11×11 and 13×13 boards.
• 🚀 Early Access & 💎 Premium Games: Play new experimental releases and all subscriber-only games/seasons.
• 🌍 Foreign Language Games: Full access to expanded foreign language editions.
• 🚫 100% Ad-Free Experience: Zero start-of-match or outcome ads.
• ⚡ Weekly Fun Credits Stipend: +5 Bonus FC added every week (+50 Bonus FC instant VIP bounty on Annual plans), uncapped.

No—Friends Play Free! Only the Host needs a Club Pass to launch a room with >2 Person Hangout Size, >1 Bot Opponent, Larger Game Grids, or Premium/Early Access multiplayer games. Any friend you invite—even a 🟡 Casual Guest on a browser link—can join and play in your hosted room for free.

You can cancel anytime with one click via the ⚙️ Manage Billing button in your Player Profile. Your Club Pass perks remain active through the end of your current paid billing period, and any +5 FC weekly stipends already credited to your wallet are yours to keep. If you have any trouble canceling or managing your subscription, please send an email to [email protected].

Passwords and social logins create friction, invite spam, and expose personal data. Instead, BeyondFunWords uses a privacy-first 3-Tier Identity Progression Model:

1. 🟡 Casual Guest: Zero registration, session-only play (10 FC welcome grant, 20 FC vault cap).
2. 🔵 Passkey (Device): Uses your existing device lock (Windows Hello, Touch ID, Face ID, or PIN) to cryptographically pin your moniker, daily streaks, and leaderboard eligibility (+5 FC bonus, 25 FC vault cap) right in your browser—even if your browser cache is cleared.
3. 🟢 Installed & Linked: Installing the Progressive Web App (PWA) to your home screen or desktop binds your persistent User ID, awards a +10 FC installation bounty, expands your vault cap to 30 FC, unlocks the +10 FC monthly stipend, and enables 1:Many multi-device linking.

Never. Passkey verification happens strictly inside your own device's hardware security module using your device lock (Windows Hello, Touch ID, Face ID, or PIN). BeyondFunWords only receives a mathematical cryptographic signature confirming your device authorized the request—we never receive, transmit, or store biometric data.

Open your Player Profile (top-right moniker badge) and click Manage / Upgrade ❯:

• Link Another Device (QR / Pairing Code): Generate a single-use 10-minute pairing link or QR code on your primary device and open it on your second device to bind both devices to the same User ID and wallet.
• Synced OS Passkeys: If your passkey is stored in iCloud Keychain, Google Password Manager, or Windows Hello, you can sign in directly on any device signed into that keychain.
• 6-Word Recovery Code: When protecting your name, you can also save a one-time 6-word recovery code to reclaim your moniker and wallet if you ever lose or replace your device.

To keep desirable monikers available for active players, anonymous moniker leases remain active for 60 days from your last authenticated activity and automatically renew every time you play.

No. BeyondFunWords uses encrypted WebRTC Peer-to-Peer (P2P) connections for audio, video, and screen sharing. Streams may pass through relay servers to address networking issues on some wireless carriers, but we keep no logs and have no way to identify people going through the relays. BeyondFunWords never records, intercepts, or stores your media streams. Most in-game activity is peer-to-peer; when data is saved, it is encrypted and never used to train AI.

Click Cookie Preferences in the bottom footer of the landing page at any time to toggle Functional Preferences, Performance & Analytics, or Advertising & Personalization (Strictly Necessary security/session storage remains active). To permanently delete a server-bound wallet or moniker record, open your Player Profile and choose Delete Account (or Clear my data on this device for guests), or send an email to [email protected].