Terms of Service

Version 1 · Effective November 1, 2026

These terms govern your use of Why Human Ask, the game at whyhumanask.com, on a phone, a computer or a TV screen. By playing you agree to them. We have tried to write them plainly; if something is unclear, write to us at contact@hazerim.com.

1. The service

Why Human Ask (“the game”, “we”, “us”) is a web-based party game operated by Hazerim Interactive Entertainment, UAB, Ukmerges g. 228a-8, 07161 Vilnius, Lithuania. Players answer prompts, and the answers are checked by an automated judge and scored against search-interest data. The game is provided as a website that can be installed to a device's home screen; there is no separate downloadable application. The rules of play, including scoring, seating and ranked play, are described on the rules page and may change as the game develops.

2. Accounts and guest play

You can play without an account by typing a name. Guest play gives you the whole game for the session: rooms, Play solo, the Daily and Practice. Signing in, which is optional and done through Google, adds a persistent profile, a place on the ranked ladder and a record of your games. You are responsible for what happens under your account and for keeping access to your Google account secure. You may ask us to delete your account at any time; the privacy policy explains what that removes.

The game is intended for players aged 16 and older. Some optional challenge packs are for adults only and are offered only in rooms where every player has declared a date of birth that makes them an adult.

3. Acceptable use

The game is played with other people, often strangers, and the names, answers, team names and slogans you type are shown to everyone in your room, on a connected TV screen and, for scored answers, to future players as ghost answers under the name you played with. So:

• Do not type names, answers, team names, slogans or custom challenges that harass, threaten or demean another person or group, or that are sexual, violent or hateful. The game runs a word screen: slurs are refused everywhere, and a host can switch on a profanity filter for the room.
• Do not use the game to send unsolicited messages or advertising to other players, and do not impersonate another person, a streamer or our team.
• Do not type personal information, yours or anyone else's, as an answer; answers are sent to the judging and scoring services and may be kept in the answer archive.
• Do not interfere with the game's operation: do not try to break its rate limits, flood rooms, exploit bugs to alter scores, scrape the service, or access rooms, accounts or admin tools you are not entitled to.
• Do not use the game for anything unlawful.

Hosts can remove a player from a room between games. We may refuse, suspend or close access, remove content and reset ranked results where these rules are broken or the game's fairness is at risk, and we may do so without notice where the situation calls for it.

4. The Party Pass

The game is free to play. The Party Pass is an optional paid pass that lets a host write custom challenges and challenge packs for a room, with one pass at the table unlocking them for everyone in it, and that gives the holder unlimited Ask-the-Judge checks, no rate limit on practice puzzle guesses, a custom emote row and cosmetics. The pass never affects how answers are scored or who wins.

• Plans and prices. Monthly at €2.99 per month, Yearly at €24.90 per year, both renewing subscriptions, and the Founder pass at €99.99 paid once, for life. Prices include any applicable VAT where the checkout says so and may change for future purchases; a change never affects a period you have already paid for.
• Payment. Payments are handled by Stripe on Stripe's own checkout page. Your card details go to Stripe and never reach our servers. You need a signed-in account to buy a pass, so the pass can be attached to it.
• Renewal and cancellation. A subscription renews automatically at the end of each period until you cancel. You can see your plan, its status and its next payment date on the subscription card in your profile, and cancel there at any time through Stripe's customer portal. Cancelling stops future charges and never cuts the pass short: it runs to the end of the period already paid, and then your account returns to the free tier.
• Failed payments. If a renewal payment fails, Stripe retries the card for a while and your profile shows the pass as payment failed; if the payment cannot be collected, the pass ends.
• Refunds. Cancelling does not refund the current period. Any right to withdraw from a purchase or to a refund that the consumer law where you live gives you is unaffected by these terms; write to us to use it.
• Founder pass. The Founder pass is a one-time purchase that does not renew and is not revoked when the game changes its plans.

5. Your content

The names, answers, team names, winner's slogans, custom challenges and support messages you type are yours. By typing them into the game you give us permission to show them to the other players in your room and on the room's TV screen, to keep scored answers in the answer archive and replay them as ghost answers under your display name, to show prompt history and statistics built from them, and to store them as the privacy policy describes. We do not claim ownership of what you write and we do not sell it. You are responsible for having the right to post what you post. You can ask us to remove your name from the archive at any time.

The game itself, its name, wordmark, design, code, prompts and challenge packs belong to us or our licensors. You may play it and share links to it; you may not copy, resell or redistribute it, or use its name or branding as your own, without our written permission. Streaming and recording your games is welcome.

6. Availability

We work to keep the game up and fair, but it is provided as is and as available, without warranties of any kind, express or implied, including that it will be uninterrupted, error-free or available at a particular time. Rooms are kept in memory and in a short-lived database copy and are deleted after 10 minutes empty or 45 minutes idle; a game can be lost to an outage, a deployment or a broken data measurement, in which case the round is voided rather than scored. Search-interest scores depend on third-party data we do not control, and ranked results are computed from that data as it arrived. We may change, suspend or discontinue any part of the game, including modes, prompts, packs and the ranked ladder, at any time.

7. Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for any indirect, incidental, special or consequential loss, or for loss of data, rank, scores or enjoyment, arising from your use of or inability to use the game. To the extent the law allows, our total liability to you for all claims arising from the game is limited to the amount you paid us for the Party Pass in the twelve months before the claim, or, if you paid nothing, to nothing. Nothing in these terms limits or excludes any liability that cannot be limited or excluded under the law that applies to you, including your statutory rights as a consumer.

8. Third-party services

Signing in uses Google, payments use Stripe, and our community lives on Discord. Each of these is governed by its own terms and privacy policy. The Play solo waiting screen shows an ad served by Google; party rooms and pass holders see none. Links to other websites are provided for convenience and are not an endorsement.

9. Changes to these terms

We will update these terms when the game changes in a way that affects them. The version and the date it takes effect are shown at the top of this page. If a change matters for how you can play or what you pay, we will also tell you in the game before it applies. Playing after a change takes effect means you accept the updated terms; if you do not, stop playing and, if you hold a pass, cancel it.

10. Governing law

These terms, and any dispute arising out of them or out of your use of the game, are governed by the laws of the Republic of Lithuania. Disputes go to the competent courts of Vilnius. This does not affect the mandatory consumer-protection rights you have under the law of the country where you live.

11. General

If any part of these terms is found unenforceable, the rest stays in force. Our not enforcing a term at one time does not waive it later. These terms, with the privacy policy, are the whole agreement between you and us about the game. You may not transfer your account or your pass to someone else.

12. Contact

Version 1 · Effective November 1, 2026