Privacy Policy

How Odd Answer handles your data. No account needed to play; Google sign-in is optional. Answers are counted anonymously to work out how rare each one is.

Oct 20, 2026

The short version

Odd Answer (oddanswer.com) is a trivia game that runs in your browser. You do not need an account to play, and we never ask for a password. If you choose to sign in with Google, we keep your game progress with the basic profile Google shares with us (name, email address, profile picture) and a few sign-in details listed below. To score answers by how rare they are, our server counts how many players gave each answer, without knowing who gave it. If you start or join a challenge, the name you type and your answers for that challenge are shown to everyone who has the challenge link.

Last updated: 21 October 2026.

Your answers

Each answer you type is sent to our server to check it and score it.
If the answer is one we recognise, we add one to that answer's count for that prompt. The count is just a number per answer; it is not linked to you, your device or your IP address.
If we do not recognise the answer, we keep the text you typed (lower-cased, at most 80 characters) with a count, so we can review it and add correct answers to the game. It is not linked to you either. Please do not type personal information as an answer.
The name you last used for a challenge is saved in your browser's local storage, so you do not have to type it again. You can clear it by clearing this site's data in your browser settings.
Your dive log (how many dives, your deepest depth and the creatures you have met), which challenge links you have already played, and which prompts you have seen (so new rounds bring fresh ones), are also kept in your browser's local storage. Unless you sign in, they never leave your device, and clearing this site's data resets them.

Signing in is optional and only used to keep your progress across devices. Playing, starting and joining challenges, and seeing leaderboards all work without it.

What we receive from Google: your name, email address, profile picture and a Google account identifier. We ask for nothing beyond this basic profile, and we never see your Google password.
What we store with your account: your dive log (number of dives, deepest depth, creatures met), the prompts you have already played, the challenge links you have played and the name you played them under, the name you use for challenges, and the sign-in records our login system keeps: the IP address, browser language and any campaign tag in the link you arrived from when the account was created; sign-in sessions with the IP address and browser they came from (to keep sessions secure); and the sign-in tokens Google issues when you sign in, which we do not use to read anything else from your Google account.
Where: in a database run by Supabase in Canada, reached only by our own servers.
What we use it for: to restore your progress when you sign in on another device, and to show a ✓ next to your name on challenge leaderboards you play while signed in (your email and picture are never shown there). We do not email you, and we do not use it for advertising.
Deleting it: sign out at any time from the menu under your picture, top right. To delete your account and everything stored with it, email support@oddanswer.com from the address you signed in with; we delete it within 30 days.

Challenges

When you start or join a challenge, we store the name you typed, your score and your answers for that challenge, with the time you played. Anyone with the challenge link can see them on the leaderboard, and the link preview picture shows the top three names and scores. For the Chinese version of that picture, our server fetches the Chinese font from Google Fonts, cut down to the characters it needs, so it sends Google Fonts the picture's text, including the top three names; the request comes from our server, not your browser, and is handled under the Google Privacy Policy. Use a nickname if you prefer. To have an entry removed, email support@oddanswer.com with the challenge link and the name; we remove it within 30 days.

Answer counts and challenges are stored in a database run by Supabase in Canada, reached only by our own servers.

What we do not collect

We do not require an account. Unless you sign in with Google, we do not collect names or email addresses. There is no password sign-in, so we never collect passwords.
We do not take payments.
We do not sell or share personal data.

Server logs

Like any website, the hosting provider that serves this page (Vercel) may automatically record standard request information such as IP address, browser type, the page requested, and the time of the request. These logs are used to keep the site running and secure, and are handled under the hosting provider's own privacy policy.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to understand how the site is used. It records page views, your approximate location (country or city), browser, operating system, and the site that referred you. When you play, it also records game events: when a round starts (and whether it is a solo round, a challenge you started or one you joined), whether each answer was recognised and which rarity tier it reached (Obvious to Oddest, or skipped or unrecognised), your score at the end of a round, when you create or join a challenge (with the score or the number of players), when you share a challenge (only which way: the share sheet or a copied link), and when the offer to sign in is shown, clicked or dismissed, and when you sign in or out. It does not record the answers you typed, your name or your email address.

Google Analytics is provided by Google and processes this data under the Google Privacy Policy. You can see how Google uses data from sites that use its services, and you can opt out with the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.

Visitors from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, and Switzerland are not given analytics cookies by default; only cookieless, anonymous measurements are sent.

Cookies

Google Analytics sets first-party cookies (named _ga and _ga_*) to tell new visits from returning ones. They contain a random identifier, not your name. You can block or delete them in your browser settings; the game works the same without them. If you sign in, a sign-in session cookie keeps you signed in; it is removed when you sign out. When you click Sign in, the page also sets a cookie named oa_lang holding the language you were playing in (en or zh), so that a sign-in that fails brings you back to the same language; it is deleted once you are back signed in, and expires after 15 minutes in any case. We do not use cookies for advertising.