Playing, buying, and what you write.

Who we are

Lorewheel is made and sold by Media Yard LLC, PO Box 73, Pennsauken, NJ 08110, United States, a New Jersey limited liability company, which provides the games and the service. Write to us at that address. Help with orders and subscriptions is on the support page. These terms cover using Lorewheel and buying from it; how we handle data is on the privacy page, and organisations using the organiser plan also agree to the Data Processing Addendum.

Who can use Lorewheel

Anyone can play. To buy anything, to sign in, or to open a group's online Almanac you must be 18 or over, or the age of majority where you live if that's higher. The online Almanac asks an adult to sign in on each device and confirm that they're 18 or over and that any children in the group are theirs or that they have a parent's or guardian's permission. Children can play when an adult is with them, and the adult who runs a group is responsible for how it's used.

Playing safely

Lorewheel gives prompts; your group decides how to play them. You're responsible for your own safety and your group's: pick games that suit the people and the space you're in, and skip or change any prompt that doesn't.

• Games marked Play safe involve acting or moving. In acting games, stay in your seat or spot and mime in place: no real climbing, lifting or wrestling. In moving games like Fetch! and Clue Relay, walk, don't run, and walk on stairs.
• No props that are sharp, hot, heavy, breakable or alive, and nothing that isn't yours to borrow. Keep voices at a comfortable volume.
• An adult should supervise children throughout. The age ratings (6+ to 14+ for games, 16+ for the Couples Night and Bach Weekend question packs) and the youngest-player filter are our judgement to help you choose, not a guarantee that a game suits every child or every group. They assume an adult reads aloud for younger players. An organiser can limit which games its groups see. That applies on the devices holding the group's link, and isn't a lock on a device: supervise as you would anyway.
• Nobody has to answer, act or do anything they don't want to, and anyone can sit out any round. Don't turn a game into a dare or a drinking game.
• Never play while driving, or anywhere you need to pay attention to something else.

We don't control where, how or with whom you play. So, as far as the law allows, we aren't responsible for injury, loss or damage caused by how a game is played. This doesn't limit anything described in Liability that the law doesn't let us limit.

What you write

What your group writes belongs to you: sealed lines, names, night cards, recordings, and anything you put on a card or in a book. You give Media Yard LLC a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free licence to store it, sync it to the devices that hold your group's link, show it to your group, and print it when someone orders a Yearbook or Keepsake Cards. The licence is only for running Lorewheel for you, and it ends when the content is deleted, except for copies in orders already made. We don't sell what you write, show it to anyone outside your group, or use it to train AI.

You're responsible for what you add. Don't use Lorewheel to:

• post anything illegal, or anything that sexualises or exploits children;
• harass, threaten, bully or demean anyone, including by writing about a real person in a way meant to hurt them;
• share anyone's private information, such as an address, phone number or health details, without their permission;
• add photos of people who haven't agreed, or anything you don't have the right to use;
• break, overload or get around how Lorewheel works, including its adult sign-in.

We don't read online Almanacs. If something is reported to us, or the law requires it, we may remove content, delete an online Almanac or cancel an order. We report child sexual abuse material to the authorities (in the US, the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children).

Reporting something

If you come across something in Lorewheel that is illegal or breaks these terms, such as a line in a shared Almanac or a card someone sent you, email hello@lorewheel.com with "Report" in the subject. Include the group link or order number, what the content is, and why you're reporting it. We review every report, tell you what we decided and why, and you can ask us to look again. The same address is our point of contact for users and authorities under the EU Digital Services Act and the UK Online Safety Act. We answer in English.

What's free

Thirty games, phone rooms, the Almanac and Lore Duels are free. Every other game, and the Pro circles, come with Pro. Nothing here charges you unless you choose Pro, the organiser plan or a printed Yearbook.

Lorewheel Pro

Pro costs $9 a month or $79 a year, plus any tax that applies where you live, and is attached to one group's online Almanac. It renews automatically at the same price at the end of each period until it's cancelled. You pay when you subscribe: there's no free trial, because forty-seven games are free to play without Pro. A subscription that started with a free trial before September 29, 2026 keeps it until it ends. Anyone with the group link can cancel from the Pro page at any time; Pro then stays on until the end of the period already paid for, and it isn't charged again. Refunds are self-serve: for 14 days after any payment, anyone with the group link can refund that payment from the Pro page. You get back what you paid minus Stripe's processing fee, which is shown before you confirm, and Pro ends at once for the whole group. If you live in the EU, the EEA or the UK, a refund in those 14 days is always the full amount, as the law there requires. After 14 days we don't refund part-used periods, except where the law requires it. Deleting the group's Almanac cancels its Pro subscription at once. If we ever change the price, we'll say so on the Pro page before the next renewal it applies to.

Pro unlocks the Pro circles, the read-aloud mysteries marked Pro, printing the Yearbook, keeping Legacy Letter recordings with the group's online Almanac, and keeping that Almanac for as long as the group is subscribed. When Pro ends, those return to how they work without it: recordings already kept online stay with the Almanac, new ones stay on the device that made them, and the Almanac is kept for 18 months from its last use. The yearly plan comes with one $19 pack of your choice (see Packs; Team Offsite isn't one of them). You choose it from a pack's page while the yearly subscription is active, once for each subscription, and the choice can't be changed. Your group keeps the pack after the subscription ends. If you refund the year, the pack leaves the group with it. Gift Pro, tester codes, the referral month, the organiser plan and the monthly plan don't come with a pack.

Rewards and the referral month

Milestones, the season goal and the Hall of Fame are worked out from your Almanac. Earned Yearbook covers are checked again when a book is ordered. A Lore Duel between a group that already existed and one created after the duel began gives both groups 30 days of Pro once both Almanacs are online and the duel is finished; a group is welcomed this way once, and a group earns at most three such months a year for inviting. A referral month isn't charged and doesn't renew. Cabin Cup matches don't count.

Event Packs

An Event Pack (a "pack" below) is ten games made for one kind of event, such as a wedding, a family reunion, a baby shower or a holiday; each pack also opens two to four games from Pro that suit the event, and its page lists them. It costs the price shown on its page: $19, or $39 for Team Offsite, which also comes with a facilitator's run-sheet, plus any tax that applies where you live, paid once, and is sold through Link, Stripe's reseller. It belongs to the group that adds it: whoever has the group's link can play its games on the group's devices. It doesn't renew and isn't part of Pro; the ten games made for a pack come only with that pack, and the extra games it opens also come with Pro. A purchase can be added to one group only. The pack is kept with the group's online Almanac, so if that Almanac is deleted (when nobody opens it for 18 months, or when you delete it), the pack goes with it. A pack can be refunded from its page for 14 days after you pay, on the same terms as Pro: the amount you paid minus Stripe's processing fee, or in full where the law gives you a 14-day right to withdraw (the EU, EEA and UK). The pack leaves the group as soon as the refund is made; what you've sealed in the Almanac stays. The Holiday Collection is the four holiday packs (Fright Night, The Long Table, Deck the Halls and Countdown) for $49, paid once, instead of $76 bought one by one. It is one purchase: it is added to one group, and it is refunded as a whole, so a refund removes all four packs. A pack that came with a yearly Pro subscription has no payment of its own and can't be refunded separately. You can also buy a pack, or the Holiday Collection, as a gift for another group, at the same price. You get a gift link, shown on screen and emailed to you; whoever opens it can add the pack to one group's online Almanac, once. Treat the link like a gift card: anyone who has it can use it. A group that already has the pack can't add it again, and the link stays good for another group. Refunds for a gift: within 14 days of buying, and only while it hasn't been added to a group, write to us from the support page and we'll refund it in full, and the link stops working. Once a gift has been added to a group it can't be refunded, and the group that received it can't refund it either.

Tester codes

A tester code gives one group what it says, with no card and nothing to renew: free Pro for a number of days, one or more packs for the group to keep, or both. Each group can use a code once; a code works for a limited number of groups and can be withdrawn. A code that gives only Pro can't be added to a group that already pays for Pro; if a code gives packs as well, that group gets the packs and the Pro days aren't used. A pack from a code has no payment behind it, so it can't be refunded. A code has no cash value.

The organiser plan

For camps, schools, clubs and anyone running several groups. It costs $599 a year, plus any applicable tax, for up to 30 groups, renews yearly until cancelled from the organiser page, can be refunded from the organiser page for 14 days after each payment on the same terms as Pro (the plan then ends at once), and gives every group the organisation created the same Pro described above; cancelling keeps it on until the end of the paid year. The organiser can pair groups in a Cabin Cup and order a Season Yearbook for every group — a book made from each group's lines for that year, which the organiser receives and can read. Anyone with the organiser link can manage the organisation and open any of its groups, so it belongs with the adults who run things. Deleting the organisation cancels its subscription; its groups keep their Almanacs without its Pro.

Printed Yearbooks and the PDF edition

The hardcover (priced by length: $49 up to 100 pages, $69 up to 200, $89 up to 300, postage included, plus any sales tax; US addresses only; a year longer than 300 pages is available as the PDF edition only) is made to order and printed and posted by Lulu. The PDF edition ($19, plus any applicable tax) is made as soon as payment clears. The PDF edition can be refunded from the Yearbook page for 14 days after payment: you get back what you paid minus Stripe's processing fee (the full amount if you live in the EU, the EEA or the UK), and the PDF can no longer be downloaded from us. Hardcovers are printed for you and can't be refunded — but if we can't make your book, we refund it in full, and if a hardcover arrives damaged or misprinted, or never arrives, write to us within 30 days of delivery with your order number and we'll reprint it or refund it. A pack's book is the same hardcover or PDF edition, made only from what your group sealed in that pack's games in that year, with the pack's name on the title page and cover. It is ordered from the pack's page, is bought separately from the pack, and is sold on the same terms as the Yearbook.

Keepsake Cards

Keepsake Cards are postcards made from your group's own lines and kept nights: 6 × 4 inch matte card, printed on the front with the back left plain for a note, and printed to order and posted by our partner Printful in the US, to US addresses only. The price is $8 per order plus $2.50 a postcard, postage included, plus any sales tax. You choose what goes on them, so make sure you have the right to print anything you add — including photos. Because every card is made for you, they can't be returned or refunded once printed; but if we can't make them, we refund you in full, and if they arrive damaged or misprinted, or never arrive, write to us within 30 days with your order number and we'll reprint them or refund you.

Gift Pro

You can buy a year of Lorewheel Pro as a gift for $79, plus any tax that applies where you live, paid once. It doesn't renew. You get a gift link, shown on screen and emailed to you; whoever opens it can add the year to one group's online Almanac, once. Treat the link like a gift card: anyone who has it can use it. A gift can't be added to a group that already pays for Pro or gets it through an organiser. Once added, the year runs from that day (after any free month the group already has) and works like Pro in every other way. Refunds: within 14 days of buying, and only while the gift hasn't been added to a group, write to us from the support page and we'll refund it in full, and the link stops working. Once a gift has been added, it can't be refunded.

The partner programme

The partner programme pays people who recommend Lorewheel a share of what the people they send go on to buy. These terms apply if you join it.

• Joining. It's free. You must be 18 or older. You get a code and a link when you join; we can decline or end anyone's place in the programme, and we will if these rules are broken.
• What counts as your sale. Someone arrives by your link, then pays for Lorewheel Pro, an Event Pack or bundle, Pro as a gift, or the organiser plan, in that browser, within 30 days. If they arrived by more than one partner's link, the latest one counts. In the EU, the EEA, the UK and Switzerland a visitor's browser doesn't store your code (see privacy), so there a sale counts only if it's made in the same visit. A sale we can't match to your code doesn't count, and we don't add sales by hand.
• What you earn. 30% of that first payment, before tax; 25% for the organiser plan. A subscription earns on its first payment only, not on renewals. Printed Yearbooks, Keepsake Cards and the PDF edition earn nothing. A payment that is refunded, reversed or disputed earns nothing. Your own purchases, and purchases you pay for or reimburse, earn nothing.
• When we pay. Each sale is held for 30 days and checked against our payment records. Once you're owed $25 or more, we pay you, once a month, by PayPal or another way we agree with you. You are responsible for any tax on what you earn, and we may need a tax form from you before we can pay. Leaving the programme deletes your details and gives up anything not yet paid, so ask us to pay you first.
• Say it's a paid link. Wherever you share your link, say clearly that you earn if people buy through it (for example "#ad", or "I earn if you buy through this link"), as the law requires where you and your audience are, and follow the rules of the platform you post on.
• Say only what's true. Show Lorewheel as it is. Don't promise prices, discounts, features or results we don't offer, and don't speak for us.
• What you may not do. Buy advertising on the name Lorewheel or anything confusingly like it; pose as Lorewheel; send spam; use bots, fake clicks, misleading links or incentives to buy that we haven't offered; or film children without their parent's or guardian's permission.
• Using our name and pictures. While you're a partner you may use the name Lorewheel, our logo, and screenshots and videos of the games to recommend it. Nothing else of ours is licensed to you, and this ends when you leave.
• Not an employee or agent. You're independent. Nothing here makes you our employee, agent or representative.
• Changes and ending. We may change what the programme pays, for sales made after the change, and we'll email partners at least 14 days before a lower rate applies. You can leave at any time from your dashboard, and we can end the programme. Sales already made are still paid under the terms they were made on, unless these rules were broken to get them.

Paid posts. We may offer a partner a flat fee for a video, on top of their share of sales. The offer shows on the partner's dashboard, and accepting it there is agreeing to the paid post terms as well as these.

Who you buy from, and tax

Pro, the organiser plan, Gift Pro and the PDF edition are digital products sold through Link, Stripe's reseller service, which is the seller of record for those purchases. Link takes the payment, adds and pays any sales tax, VAT or GST that applies where you live (so the total at checkout can be more than the listed price), sends the receipt and invoice, and appears on your card statement as LINK.COM* LOREWHEEL. You can manage or cancel those subscriptions on the Pro or organiser page, or at link.com. Link's own terms apply to the payment, and Link may refund a purchase within 60 days in some cases.

The hardcover Yearbook and Keepsake Cards are physical goods sold by Media Yard LLC directly, with Stripe processing the payment. Sales tax on them is calculated by Stripe from your delivery address and shown at checkout before you pay.

Prices are in US dollars; Link may show the equivalent in your currency. We never see or store card details.

Our promises, and their limits

We work to keep Lorewheel running and your Almanac safe, and we stand behind printed goods as described above. Keep a copy of anything you can't bear to lose: the Almanac page can export it.

EXCEPT AS SET OUT IN THESE TERMS, LOREWHEEL IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". AS FAR AS THE LAW ALLOWS, WE DISCLAIM ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT, AND WE DON'T PROMISE THAT LOREWHEEL WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE.

If you're a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, you have legal rights that nothing in these terms affects. They include the right to digital content and services that are as described, fit for purpose and of satisfactory quality, supplied with reasonable care and skill.

Liability

AS FAR AS THE LAW ALLOWS, WE AREN'T LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL OR PUNITIVE LOSSES, OR FOR LOST PROFITS, DATA OR GOODWILL. OUR TOTAL LIABILITY FOR ALL CLAIMS ARISING FROM LOREWHEEL IS LIMITED TO THE GREATER OF WHAT YOU PAID US IN THE 12 MONTHS BEFORE THE CLAIM, OR US$50.

Nothing in these terms limits or excludes liability for:

• death or personal injury caused by our negligence;
• fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;
• gross negligence or willful misconduct;
• anything else the law doesn't allow us to limit or exclude.

If you're a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, we're responsible for loss or damage you suffer that is a foreseeable result of our breaking these terms or failing to use reasonable care and skill. We aren't responsible for loss that wasn't foreseeable. Lorewheel is supplied for domestic and private use, and to organisations under the organiser plan.

If you live in New Jersey: the warranty disclaimer, the exclusion of indirect and consequential losses, the liability cap and the paragraph below about content you add all apply to you only as far as New Jersey law permits. None of them limits our liability for negligence causing personal injury, for fraud, or under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act.

Content you don't have the right to use

A claim might be brought against us because of something you added without the right to use it, such as a photo on Keepsake Cards, or because you broke these terms on purpose. If so, you'll cover our reasonable costs of dealing with that claim, as far as the law allows. This doesn't apply to consumers in the EU, the EEA or the UK.

Suspending or ending access

You can stop using Lorewheel at any time and delete your data from inside it. We may suspend or end access to an online Almanac, an order or an account if:

• it's used against these terms;
• the law requires it;
• we need to protect other people.

Where we can, we'll tell you why. If we end a paid service for a reason that isn't your fault, we'll refund the unused part. If we ever stop offering Lorewheel or part of it, we'll:

• give at least 60 days' notice where we can;
• let you export your Almanac;
• refund any prepaid time that's left.

Changes to these terms

We may change these terms, for example when we add a feature or the law changes. The date at the top shows the latest version. If a change matters to a paying subscriber, we'll say so on the Pro or organiser page at least 30 days before it applies to your next renewal, and you can cancel before then. Changes never apply to purchases already made.

The law that applies, and disputes

If something goes wrong, write to us first: most problems can be put right by email. These terms are governed by the laws of New Jersey and the United States, and disputes go to the state or federal courts in New Jersey.

If you're a consumer in the EU, the EEA or the UK, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of the country where you live, and you can bring a claim in your local courts. Consumers elsewhere keep any rights their local law gives them that can't be waived by contract.

The rest

If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies. If we don't enforce a term straight away, we haven't given up the right to. These terms, the privacy page and, for organisations, the Data Processing Addendum are the whole agreement between you and us about Lorewheel. We may transfer them to a company that takes over Lorewheel, as long as your rights under them don't get worse.