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Category creation terms — Who's Playing? (منو بيلعب؟)

Version: October 30, 2026

1. What these terms cover

These terms apply to every category you create in Community Categories in Who’s Playing?, in Trivia Showdown, Draw & Guess and Spot the Faker, and to everything you put in it: text, pictures and sounds. They come on top of the game’s general Terms of Use and do not replace them. By ticking the box and creating a category you agree to them; if you do not agree, do not create categories.

2. Who may create categories

Anyone using the app on their phone may create categories. If you are under 13, create one only with a parent or guardian watching over it, who is responsible for it. The game has no accounts: the phone that created a category is, for us, its owner.

3. What is welcome

We want categories that suit a family majlis where young and old sit together: decent, polite content, written in Standard Arabic, clear Arabic or English, with questions and answers that are as correct as you can make them. You are responsible for everything you put in your category and for its accuracy.

4. Not allowed: words and topics

No swearing or insults; nothing sexual or suggestive; no violence, gore or threats; no hate or discrimination against any religion, sect, nationality, tribe or race; no mocking of religion or its symbols; no political mockery or insults to countries and their symbols; no promotion of drugs, alcohol, smoking or gambling; no bullying of anyone.

5. Not allowed: pictures and sounds

The rules above apply to pictures and sounds too. On top of that: no revealing or immodest pictures, no gory pictures, no pictures of people without their permission, and never a picture of a child’s face.

6. Privacy and impersonation

Put no one’s personal details in your category: real names of people who are not public figures, phone numbers, addresses, accounts or schools — and never a child’s real name. Do not pretend to be another person, an organisation, a brand or the game itself, and do not use a nickname that suggests you are.

7. Spam and other people’s rights

No adverts, links or promotion, and no duplicate or meaningless categories. Do not use a song, clip, picture or questions you do not own and have no right to use, and do not copy questions from other games, apps or websites.

8. Ownership and licence

What you create stays yours. By publishing it, as a public or a private category, you give us a free, non-exclusive, worldwide licence to store, copy, compress, translate, show and play it inside the game, on screens and on players’ phones, for as long as the category is published. Deleting the category ends the licence, except that a room that opened it before the deletion may finish it until that session ends.

9. Our right to edit, hide or remove

We may make small edits to any category, such as shrinking a picture or fixing an obvious mistake, and we may hide or remove it at any time, without notice, if we think it breaks these terms or does not suit the game. When we hide a category we aim to show you the reason in My work.

10. The automatic check

Before a category is published, its text, pictures and sounds are checked automatically, with the help of outside technical services including Google’s. The check can be wrong: it may refuse something harmless or let something through that breaks the rules. Passing the check does not mean we reviewed or approved the category, and its content stays your responsibility. If you think the check got it wrong, contact us through the support page.

11. Reports and review

Any player can report a public category. When several different players report it (three at present; we may change that number) it is hidden automatically until we review it. After the review we either bring it back as it was or remove it, and My work shows you why it was hidden.

12. Strikes and blocking

A breach found by the automatic check or by us can add a strike to the phone that created the category. At the second strike you get a warning; at the third, that phone can no longer create or publish categories, and its published categories are hidden. A serious breach may block the phone straight away. If you think a block was a mistake, appeal it from inside the app: write a message and, if you like, attach up to 3 pictures. We review every appeal ourselves and answer in the app, and by notification if notifications are on. One appeal at a time; after a rejection you can appeal again 7 days later.

13. No accounts: your phone is your identity

We know your categories by a random code kept on your phone, not by your name or e-mail. If you clear the app’s data or change phones, you will no longer be able to edit or delete your old categories from the app. A private category can then no longer be seen or played at all. You can delete any category at any time from My work, and its pictures, sounds, likes, play count and reports go with it. After a deletion we keep only the phone’s strike and block record, so these rules can be enforced. One phone can keep up to 24 categories.

14. Who sees your category

Your categories always show for you in My work on your phone, and on the room’s screen when you play them. Once published they appear in the Community Categories library for the game’s subscribers, with the nickname you wrote, along with their likes and play counts. If you choose Private when you publish, it stays out of the library and search: it shows only for you in My work and on the room’s screen when you pick, edit or play it, and nobody else can pick it. These terms and the automatic check all still apply to a private category, and you can change your choice later.

15. No payment

Creating categories is free, and we pay creators no money, reward or share of revenue, however often their categories are played. Likes and play counts are just for fun.

16. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms; the version date is shown at the top. When a new version comes out, the app asks you to agree again before you create or publish a category.

17. Contact

For any question, objection or deletion request, or to report content about you that was published without your permission, reach us through the support page: whos-playing.web.app/support.html

See also: Terms of Use · Privacy Policy · Support