Opening After Hours…
Opening After Hours…
Last updated November 13, 2026. This describes the current After Hours website.
Player names, settings, and custom Undercover lists use your browser’s local storage. Active matches, secret roles, submitted definitions, votes, and timer progress use session storage in the current tab. This lets a match recover after a refresh. Closing the tab may clear that match.
These gameplay records are not sent to an application database or advertising provider. The app does not use a microphone, camera, speech recognition, or third-party analytics.
Cut It Loose saves its current Daily challenge, committed cuts and local results in this browser’s local storage so you can return after a refresh. Practice is kept in memory. These solo cuts and scores are not uploaded or added to a public leaderboard. Clearing this site’s browser data removes them.
Rabbit Hole saves your current solo challenge, confirmed article progress, moves and timer in this tab’s session storage so a refresh can resume the run. Closing the tab may clear it. It does not collect a player name or contact details, create a player account, or add analytics or tracking cookies.
Search terms, article titles or identifiers, and the articles needed to check a route are sent to this site’s server and then to Wikipedia’s API. The server does not forward your browser credentials or saved party-game data. Public article data and lookup results may be kept temporarily in a bounded server cache. The application does not log your search queries or save your run in a server database.
Article images may load directly from Wikimedia. Wikimedia and our hosting provider process normal request information under their own policies. Opening a source or license link takes you to that provider’s website. Use article topics in searches and leave out personal information.
Sharing a Daily result is your choice. The shared text includes the challenge ID, mode and result with a link to that exact challenge; it leaves out article titles and your route. Rabbit Hole has no global leaderboard and does not send starts to the Most Played counter.
If you send feedback, we store its type, the description you enter, an optional selected game, the submission time, and a random record ID. The site owner can read it in a private inbox. There are no contact fields or attachments, and we do not attach saved player names, private cards, roles, answers, or other gameplay. Please leave personal and private information out of your message.
Unsent drafts stay only in the open page’s memory and disappear when you reload or leave. Sent feedback does not expire automatically; it stays until the owner deletes it. Clearing browser data does not delete feedback already sent. Cloudflare’s database recovery history may retain deleted records longer.
To limit spam, the server uses a daily rotating key derived from the request’s IP address. The feedback database does not store IP addresses or these temporary rate-limit keys. Hosting services still process normal request information under their own policies.
On the public website, an enabled Most Played feature counts new rounds or matches across games. It sends only the game’s identifier, an opaque receipt for that start, and its time. It does not send names, roles, answers, scores, or other gameplay. Private copies of the site do not participate. If a ranking read temporarily fails, the last verified aggregate ranking may remain visible for up to five minutes. Without a recent verified ranking, or when the service reports no recorded starts, no Most Played badges are shown.
Aggregate counts are kept to rank games. Temporary receipt hashes prevent duplicate counting: starts expire after 24 hours, and hourly cleanup targets removal from the active database within about 25 hours. Cleanup failures can delay removal, and Cloudflare’s separate database recovery history may retain deleted records longer. The browser keeps a limited receipt list in this tab’s session storage.
To limit automated submissions, the server derives a rotating, short-lived rate-limit key from the request’s IP address; the application database does not store that address. This feature adds no tracking cookie or persistent player identifier. Hosting services still process normal request information under their own policies.
Private cards hide when you switch away and before you pass the phone. This protects against casual peeking; it does not encrypt records against someone using browser developer tools or otherwise accessing the device. Use nicknames and avoid typing sensitive personal information.
The public website at playafterhours.party is hosted on Cloudflare. The original OpenAI Sites and workers.dev links remain private. These hosting services handle their own access checks and may process normal request information such as IP addresses and browser details under their own policies. Individual players do not create accounts within these games.
Loading the website requires a network connection. Local gameplay storage is separate from any access cookies used by the hosting service.
No ad network is enabled in this edition. No advertising identifiers, advertising cookies, or ad requests are added by the app. If ads are introduced later, this page and the applicable consent controls must be updated before activation.
End a match to remove its active gameplay record. Close the tab to discard remaining session data, including timers. To remove saved names, settings, and custom lists, clear this site’s data in your browser settings. If storage is unavailable, you can still play in memory, but progress may not survive a reload.