Legal Document
Terms &
Conditions
Yes, we have lawyers. They also have opinions about the semicolons. You're in good hands.*
Last updated July 2026 · Screwcap Games, LLC · Wisconsin* "Good hands" is not a warranty. See Section 7.
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The Part Where We're Legally Required to Tell You Stuff
Welcome. These Terms and Conditions ("Terms," "Agreement," or "The Fine Print You Definitely Read") govern your access to and use of the websites, applications, and services operated by Screwcap Games, LLC, a Wisconsin limited liability company ("Screwcap," "we," "us," or "our"). Our services include the games TheChair, Gold Digger, Sutda, Sister Wendy's Dominoes, and DTTAU — collectively the "Games" — as well as the portal at screwcap.games and associated subdomains.
By accessing or using any Screwcap service, you agree to be bound by these Terms. If you do not agree, please close the tab. We'll be fine.
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Acceptance of Terms (The Part You Scrolled Past)
By accessing any Screwcap service, creating an account, joining a waitlist, submitting your email address, or playing a game, you represent that:
- —You are at least 13 years of age.
- —You have the legal capacity to enter into a binding agreement.
- —You have read these Terms. (We know. We're being optimistic.)
- —You are not a competitor attempting to reverse-engineer our economic models or AI. Those took a while.
§ 03
What We Actually Do Here (Services)
Screwcap Games, LLC develops and operates browser-based games designed for intellectually curious adults who believe entertainment should also teach you something. Our current portfolio:
- —TheChair — Our macroeconomics flagship. You are the Fed Chair: twenty rate decisions, five years, history's worst crises. Climb from Staff Economist to Chair. The ghost of Paul Volcker is watching.
- —Sister Wendy's Dominoes — Horse race dominoes against a strategic nun who has opinions about your tile choices. She is not forgiving in Merciless mode.
- —Gold Digger — Kalshi-style prediction market training on commodities. Real data. Your overconfidence will be calibrated.
- —DTTAU — A life achievement tracker. Log your flights, runs, rides, books. Watch the numbers become something.
- —DoubleFives — Four-player domino game against a PPO-trained AI, in development. It has played 586 million games. You have not.
- —Sutda — Korean two-card bluffing game. It will humble you in two languages.
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User Accounts & Waitlists
Some Screwcap services allow you to create an account or join a waitlist. When you do, you agree to provide accurate information. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your credentials. If someone else uses your account to crash the global economy in TheChair, that's on you.
Waitlist submissions collect your email address and game preference via Formspree. We do not sell, rent, or trade your information. We barely have a CRM. It's fine in here.
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Intellectual Property (Our Stuff Is Our Stuff)
All content on Screwcap's platforms — including but not limited to game mechanics, source code, AI model weights, SVG assets, economic models, the gold star, and that very specific rain animation on the homepage — are the intellectual property of Screwcap Games, LLC or its licensors.
- —Copy, reproduce, or redistribute Screwcap game code, models, or assets.
- —Reverse-engineer the DoubleFives AI or our DSGE economic models.
- —Create derivative works without express written permission.
- —Tell people the AI cheats. It doesn't. You're just losing.
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Prohibited Conduct (Don't Be a Bad Actor — Literally)
- —Introduce malware, viruses, or any code designed to disrupt our services.
- —Scrape, index, or harvest content or data from any Screwcap property without written permission.
- —Attempt to gain unauthorized access to our systems, databases, or AI training infrastructure.
- —Impersonate Screwcap, our employees, or Sister Wendy herself.
- —Use our services in any way that violates applicable law.
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Disclaimer of Warranties ("We Make No Warranties." — Us)
§ 08
Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, Screwcap Games, LLC shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages arising out of or related to your use of the Services.
In no event shall Screwcap's total liability exceed the greater of: (a) the amount you paid Screwcap in the twelve months preceding the claim, or (b) fifty U.S. dollars ($50.00).
§ 09
Privacy, Data & How We Keep The Lights On
We run a small studio on modern tools, which means some of them are third parties who set cookies. We would rather tell you exactly which, in plain English, than hide behind “we value your privacy.”
- —Game state: Stored locally in your browser's localStorage — progress, settings, stats. It never reaches our servers. Your domino strategy is your business. Clearing your browser storage deletes it.
- —Email signups: Processed by Formspree. We receive your email and game preference. Unsubscribe anytime.
- —Accounts & sync: Some Services (currently DTTAU) let you sign in with Google and sync your data to our database. We receive your email and basic profile — never your password — and we don't post anything anywhere on your behalf.
- —Analytics: We use Plausible, which is cookieless and aggregate-only, and on several Services also Google Analytics, which does set cookies and does measure at the level of an individual browser.
- —Advertising: Free tiers of some games (currently Sister Wendy's Dominoes) carry Google AdSense. AdSense sets its own cookies and may personalise what it shows you, under Google's policies, not ours. Buying the ad-free upgrade removes the ads.
- —Marketing measurement: Some Services carry the Meta (Facebook) pixel and the TikTok pixel — third-party trackers that tell us whether an ad we ran on those platforms actually sent anyone here. On the portal these load through Google Tag Manager. We name them rather than filing them under “analytics.”
- —Payments: Handled by Gumroad. They take the card details; we never see them. We get told that you bought a thing.
This list is not fixed forever. As the studio grows we may add, swap or drop vendors — a different ad network, a new payment processor, an email platform, another campaign pixel. When that happens we will update this section and our Privacy Policy so the page always names what is actually running — never quietly widening the definition of “analytics” to smuggle something in.
Paying means less of it. The trackers and ads above are how a free game pays for itself. When you buy a premium tier — an ad-free upgrade, or a DTTAU annual or lifetime plan — the ads and their cookies come out, the page loads lighter and faster without them, and we keep supporter tracking to the minimum needed to run the service. Free is ad-supported and more heavily measured; paying makes your experience lighter, faster and less tracked.
You can opt out of most of this at the source: Google's Ad Settings, Meta's ad preferences, TikTok's settings, or any decent content blocker, which we are not going to sulk about. If you want your account data deleted, email us and we will do it.
The above is the summary. The full detail — every third-party tool by name, retention periods, international transfers, and how to exercise your GDPR and CCPA rights — is in our Privacy Policy.
§ 10
Governing Law & Jurisdiction
These Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Wisconsin. Any dispute shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Walworth County, Wisconsin.
Before initiating any legal action, both parties agree to attempt good-faith resolution through direct communication: play@screwcapholdings.com. We're responsive. We'd rather fix it than litigate it.
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