Privacy

Screenshots

Images you upload are decoded into a canvas in your browser, analysed there, and discarded when you navigate away. They are never transmitted. There is no upload endpoint in this application — not one that is switched off, one that does not exist.

Boards, racks and saved games

Saved boards live in your browser’s local storage on the device you saved them on. There is no account and no sync. Clearing your browser data deletes them, and we cannot recover them for you because we never had a copy.

The solver

Move generation, scoring and dictionary lookups all run locally in a Web Worker. Once the page and dictionary have loaded, pressing Find best moves makes no network request at all — which is also why it keeps working offline.

Sharing

A share link encodes exactly four things: the word you played, its score, the best word, and its score. That is the whole payload. Your board, your rack and your opponent are not in it, and the link is not stored on any server — the data travels inside the URL itself.

Analytics

Page views and a small set of product events — a solve finished, a hint revealed, a share clicked — are counted with Plausible, which is cookie-free, collects no personal data and does not follow you across sites. No third-party script is loaded to do it.

Events carry aggregate properties only: how many tiles were on the board, a bucketed solve time, which tool was used. They never carry board contents, rack letters, words, screenshots or images. That is enforced in code, not just intended — every property is filtered before it leaves the page, and a share link is reported as one page rather than as the words encoded in it.

Advertising

This site carries two pieces of Google’s advertising code: the Google Ads tag, so that advertising we pay for can be attributed to the visits it produces, and Google AdSense, which is what pays for the site by showing ads on it. Unlike the analytics above, both are Google’s code running in your browser, both set cookies, and both can be used to recognise you across other sites carrying Google tags. Which ads you see, and how personalised they are, is decided by Google — you can change that at My Ad Center. If you would rather none of it ran, an ad or tracker blocker will stop it, and nothing on this site needs it to work.

What it is told is deliberately thin: the page you are on and, when a solve finishes, that a solve finished. Never the board, the rack, the words found, a screenshot, or anything about the game itself. A shared review link is reported as a single page rather than as the words encoded in its address.

Cookies

The Google Ads tag described above sets cookies. Nothing else here does: the site itself sets none, and the analytics are cookie-free. Local storage is used for your saved boards, your practice statistics and whether you have dismissed the install prompt — that stays on your device and is never sent anywhere.

Embedded widgets

The embeddable rack solver sets no cookies and collects no analytics from the sites that host it.

Children

This is a word-game utility with no accounts, no messaging and no user-generated content. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone, of any age.

Changes

If this ever changes — for example if optional cloud sync is added — it will be opt-in, and this page will say so plainly before anything is switched on.

Affiliation

TilePlayCoach is an independent word-game companion. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to The New York Times. “Crossplay” is used here only to describe the game this tool supports.