The small print

Content policy

What belongs at a FlickerTale table, what does not, and what to do when something goes wrong.

FlickerTale is played in living rooms, often with children at the table, and always on a big screen everyone can see. This page says what we ask of everyone who plays, and what we do ourselves.

The paintings

Every card is a wordless painting, made for a general audience and checked by hand, before it joins the deck, for anything that does not belong on a family table. Some are a little eerie, the way dreams can be; none is meant to frighten. If a card upsets you, looks wrong, or seems to contain words or a real person, please tell us which one (describe it in a line) and we will look at it and take it out of the deck if it should not be there.

What people type

Names and clues are typed by players and shown to the whole table. A clue is at most 80 characters. Please keep both kind:

• nothing hateful, or that mocks a person for who they are;
• nothing sexual, and never anything sexual involving a child;
• no threats, harassment or bullying;
• nobody else’s personal details: their full name, address, phone number or anything that says who they are;
• nothing illegal.

A name or clue that breaks these rules is shown only to the table it was typed at, and is gone when the game ends; we do not see games. At the table, the host is in charge: the host can remove a player.

House players

House players make their own clues. Their clues are short, never simply name what is in the picture, and are checked before they are shown, but they are made by a machine and can still come out odd. If one says something it should not, please tell us.

Telling us

Leave a note, or use Report a problem in the menu on your phone or on the big screen at the end of a game: it tells us which room and when, and nothing about who you are. For anything urgent or unlawful, email support@flickertale.com. [Owner: the contact point for authorities and the response times the lawyer review settles on.]

What we do

We read every note. We fix what we can, remove cards that should not be in the deck, and change the game where it lets people down. Because nobody signs in and games are not kept, there is no account to suspend: the protection is in the game itself, and in the host’s hands.

Last changed on 29 September 2026.