Terms
What this is
Plottr is a free daily history game at plottr.in. Playing it means accepting what follows. There is nothing to pay for and nothing to cancel, and an account is never required to play. If you disagree with any of this, simply stop playing.
On the answers
Plottr is a game, not a reference work. Every clue is reduced to a single point on a globe, which is a crude thing to do to history: events unfold over regions and over years, place names change, and borders are drawn differently depending on who is drawing them. Where a border is disputed, the map shows one rendering and that is not a claim about who is right. Treat an answer as the answer to a puzzle, not as a settled fact, and do not rely on Plottr for anything that matters.
Fair play
Play it as a game. Do not automate play, script requests to the API, attempt to read answers before you have guessed them, or try to disrupt the service for other people. Plottr may block access that does any of these.
What belongs to whom
The clues, the questions and the design of Plottr belong to Plottr. The map does not: the satellite imagery is Esri's and its providers', the borders and place data come from OpenStreetMap contributors via OpenFreeMap and from Natural Earth, and all of it is used under their own licences and credited in the footer of every page and on How it works. The result you copy and share is yours to post anywhere you like.
No warranty
Plottr is provided as it is, with no guarantee that it will be available, that a round will appear every day, or that it is free of faults. It is run as a project, not as a service with an uptime promise, and it may change or stop without notice. To the fullest extent the law allows, Plottr is not liable for any loss arising from using it or from being unable to.
Accounts
You can play without one. An account exists only to put you on the leaderboard and to keep your history, and it is created by typing an email address and entering a six-digit code Plottr sends you. There is no form and no password. You are responsible for the inbox you sign in with; Plottr cannot recover an account whose email address you have lost.
You can delete your account at any time, immediately and permanently.
Handles
A handle is generated for you and you can change it. Keep it decent: handles that impersonate somebody, that are chosen to abuse or harass, or that would be unpleasant to read on a public page may be reset or removed. Names reserved for Plottr itself are not available.
The leaderboard
Your rating is the mean of your best 30 rounds from the last 90 days, and you appear once you have played ten rounds in that window. One round counts per day, and only the current day's round, completed in full.
Play it as a game. Scripting the game, using more than one account, or otherwise submitting scores you did not earn by playing may cost you your place, your account, or both. Plottr does not currently run automated detection for this and does not promise to; what it reserves is the right to remove a score or an account when there is reason to.
The game can change
Scoring, the rating window and the leaderboard may change as the game develops. Nothing here is a promise that a rating earned today will mean the same thing next year.
Changes
These terms may change as Plottr grows. The date at the top says when this version was written.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts of India have jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.
Contact
Reach us at makers@plottr.in.