How Your Points Actually Stick Around Between Visits

A few people have written in asking how the points work behind the scenes, so here's the straightforward answer: everything is stored locally, in your own browser, on your own device. There's no account, no server-side ledger, nothing tied to an email address. Your running total simply lives in this browser until you clear it out yourself.

That has a couple of practical consequences worth knowing. If you play on your phone and then open the site on a laptop, you'll start from zero on the laptop — the two aren't connected. Similarly, clearing your browser data, using a private window, or switching browsers on the same device will all reset things.

I went back and forth on whether to build proper accounts instead, and decided against it fairly quickly. An account system means passwords, recovery emails, a database somewhere holding onto information that doesn't need to exist for a site like this. Keeping it local keeps the whole thing lighter, and honestly, simpler for me to maintain as one person.

It also means there's genuinely nothing to lose in any meaningful sense. The points were never going anywhere beyond this browser tab to begin with, so a reset is just a fresh start rather than losing something of value. That's very much the point of the whole set-up.

If your total does vanish unexpectedly, it's almost always one of the causes above rather than a fault on the site's end. I don't have a way to recover a specific browser's local total, which is the trade-off for not asking for any personal details in the first place.