Terms of use

What Versus is

One account gives access to four environments — Versus, Flush, Sprig and iClutch — each with its own daily challenge: compare five pairs of real-world quantities, guess the word of the day, walk, or spend a night in a capsule. Taking on a challenge earns greens, an in-game unit that can be used to fund environmental projects listed in the app.

The account is one, and so is the wallet. Greens, XP, streak, projects and tickets belong to the account, not to an environment. A day is worth up to five greens in total, whichever environments are played: the four are four ways to fill one day, not four allowances.

Playing is free. Greens cannot be bought, sold, transferred, or exchanged for money, and they have no monetary value. Nothing in Versus is a purchase, a wager, or an investment.

Your account

Signing in requires an email address. There is no password: a six-digit code is sent to the address you give, and entering it signs you in. Keeping access to that mailbox is what keeps your account yours.

You may choose a display name, a username and a short bio. A username is a public address: anyone can reach /u/your-username. A profile set to private is not listed and its page returns a not-found response.

One account per person. Accounts created to play the same day's word more than once may be suspended.

Fair play

The day's word is the same for everyone, and the point of the game is that it is solved by the same means by everyone. Using a program, a model, or another person to produce your guesses is not forbidden by any technical measure — it cannot be — but it is outside the spirit of the game, and the leaderboard is ordered by streak precisely so that showing up matters more than solving fast.

Every guess is recorded on the server, with the time it was made. This is used to understand how the game is played and, if needed, to look into an account. It is an indication and never a proof: a fast, strong player looks like an assisted one. No account is ever suspended automatically.

Practice grids are unlimited, random, and never scored.

Greens, projects and the draw

Greens are earned only by taking on a daily challenge, and the amount depends on how you did. The server replays every game from the moves it recorded; a score sent by a browser is never read, because there is no field for one.

Greens can fund a project from the list in the app. Funding records an impact and issues one draw ticket, up to five tickets per calendar month for everyone, across every environment on one account. Money never buys one more, and no purchase of any kind increases anybody's chances.

Be aware, and this is stated plainly: funding currently records your intent. The call to the partner network is not wired yet, so no purchase is made on your behalf at this time. This section will be updated when that changes, and the app says so on the certificate page.

Suspension and ending

An account may be suspended for creating multiple accounts, for abuse, or for attempting to obtain greens by means other than playing. A suspended account is told so, and told why.

You may stop using Versus at any time. There is no self-service deletion yet; see the privacy policy for how to ask for erasure.

Changes

These terms may change. Substantive changes will be announced in the app before they take effect.