Terms of Use
The short version: dig fair, be kind and have fun. Holy Ore is free and made just for fun. Coins, ore and gear only work inside the game, the Miner Messiah's calls are final, and the full terms below are the ones that count.
These terms are an agreement between you and Wavelink Social Corp, a Delaware corporation ("we", "us" and "our" on this page). We make Holy Ore through Wavy Studios, our game studio. "Holy Ore" here means the game, holyore.com and everything that comes with them, under this name or any name we give the game later. By playing or creating an account, you agree to these terms. If you don't agree, please don't play.
Free, just for fun
Right now Holy Ore is completely free. There are no ads, no real-money purchases, no subscriptions and no sponsorships, and we don't sell anyone's personal information.
That could change one day. If we ever add paid extras, ads or sponsorships, we'll update these terms and our Privacy Policy before they arrive, anything you can buy will come with clear terms at the time, and we'll never charge you without asking first.
Coins, ore and gear
Coins, ore, miners, hats, tools, wings, companions, levels, achievements and everything else you find, earn or get in the game are "game items". They live only inside Holy Ore:
- We give you a personal, limited right to use them in the game. You don't own them, and they aren't money or property.
- They have no real-world value. You can't cash them out, and you can't sell, trade or transfer them, or your account, for real money or anything else outside the game.
- We may add, change, rebalance or remove game items, take back items gained through a bug or cheating, and reset progress when the game needs it, unless the law or the terms of something we've sold you say otherwise. We did this once already: on October 6, 2026, everyone started over.
Playing the game
As long as you follow these terms, you may play Holy Ore for your own fun. That permission is personal (you can't pass it on), it isn't exclusive to you, and we can take it back.
Holy Ore is made for fun, not as a reference. Prompts and answer lists are written by people and with the help of AI, and rarity scores are estimates that change as people play. When you give an answer that isn't on the list, an AI judge (the Miner Messiah) decides whether it counts, and it can get things wrong. Its rulings, and the scores that follow from them, are final for the game. We may change, fix or remove prompts, answers, scores, rulings and features at any time.
Screenshots, clips and streams of your own play are welcome wherever you like to share them, as long as you don't suggest that we sponsor or endorse you.
Who can play
You must be at least 13 years old to play Holy Ore. If you're under 18 (or not yet an adult where you live), read these terms with a parent or guardian and only play with their permission. By playing, you're telling us they've agreed to these terms too. If we learn that a player is under 13, we'll delete their information, and their account if they have one.
Accounts
You can play endless digs without an account. Today's dig and Lantern Lake need one. If you create an account:
- Keep your sign-in to yourself. You're responsible for what happens on your account unless it's our fault, so tell us right away if you think someone else is using it.
- Pick a miner name that isn't offensive or misleading and isn't someone else's name or brand. We may change a miner name that breaks these terms.
- If you sign in with Google, Discord, Microsoft or Apple, that company's own terms also apply to how you sign in.
You can stop playing whenever you like and ask us to delete your account. Our Privacy Policy explains how.
Your answers and your miner
The answers you type, your miner name and your miner's look are your content. You keep whatever rights you have in them, and you give us a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free license to store, copy, count, show and use them to run, improve and promote Holy Ore (for example, showing the leaderboard or a great rare find in a post about the game), and to let the services that help us run it do the same for us. For answers, this license is perpetual, because answers already counted stay in each prompt's totals. For your miner name and look, it ends when you delete your account, though we can't pull back posts already shared. The license includes:
- counting your answers in each prompt's rarity and showing those counts to everyone, without your name;
- sending an answer we don't recognize, with its prompt, to the AI and web-search services that check it;
- using answers to improve prompts and answer lists, so a great find may join the list for everyone;
- showing your miner name and look on the leaderboards and at Lantern Lake, and showing the answers you strike to the miner you're digging with.
Don't type personal information (yours or anyone else's), or anything hateful, harassing, sexual or illegal, into the game. We may remove any answer or name at our discretion. If you delete your account, we delete your miner name and look, and answers already counted stay in each prompt's totals without anything that identifies you.
Lantern Lake
Lantern Lake is where signed-in miners meet and dig together. Other miners there see your miner, its name and name tag, where you stand, and the emotes and phrases you pick. There's no open chat: everyone talks with the same short list of emotes and phrases, so nobody can type messages to you. You only dig with another miner if you both step onto the dig spots. Be kind. You can mute or report any miner, and we may keep any miner away from the lake for a while or for good.
Fair play
Please don't:
- use bots, scripts or automated tools to play or to submit answers;
- manipulate answer counts, rankings or rarity scores, or use more than one account to do it or to get around a ban;
- exploit a bug to get coins, ore or items (tell us about it instead);
- flood the game with requests, probe it for vulnerabilities, or try to get around rate limits or other protections;
- copy or scrape the prompts, answer lists, artwork, music or sounds for use elsewhere;
- harass other players, or pretend to be someone else, including us.
If you find a security problem, please tell us privately at support@wavelink.co rather than testing it on other players.
Suspending, closing and ending
We may suspend or close an account, remove game items, or block access if we reasonably believe someone has broken these terms or put other players or the game at risk, or if the law requires it. Where it's practical and safe, we'll tell you why.
Holy Ore is a live game. We may change it, add or remove features, modes and items, or stop running it altogether. If we ever shut it down, we'll try to give notice in the game first. When an account closes or the game ends, its game items end with it, unless the law or the terms of something we've sold you say otherwise.
The sections on your content, who owns what, warranties and liability, and disputes keep applying after an account closes.
Who owns what
We own Holy Ore and the rights in it: the code, art, music, sounds, prompts, answer lists and design, and the names and logos. These terms don't give you any of those rights beyond the right to play. Holy Ore, Wavy Studios, Wavy the whale and their logos are our trademarks, so please don't use them in a way that suggests we're behind something we're not.
Prompts may mention companies, products, people or works owned by others. Those names belong to their owners, and their appearance here doesn't mean they sponsor or endorse Holy Ore. Some answer lists draw on Wikidata (CC0) and on Wikipedia's public page-view statistics and article titles.
Warranty and liability
Holy Ore is provided "as is" and "as available". To the fullest extent the law allows, we make no warranties of any kind, express or implied, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title and non-infringement. We don't promise that the game will always be available, accurate or free of errors, or that your progress will never be lost.
To the fullest extent the law allows, we and our directors, officers, employees and contractors won't be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for any lost data, progress or game items, arising from Holy Ore. Our total liability for all claims relating to Holy Ore, added together, is limited to US$50 or, if it's more, the amount you've paid us for Holy Ore in the 12 months before the claim.
Nothing in these terms limits liability that the law doesn't allow us to limit, such as liability for fraud, gross negligence or harm we cause on purpose, or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence. If the law where you live doesn't allow one of the exclusions or limits above, it applies to you only as far as that law allows, and if you're a consumer you keep any rights that law gives you that can't be waived.
Disputes and the law
If something's wrong, write to us first at support@wavelink.co and give us 30 days to try to make it right. Most things can be worked out that way, and any deadline for bringing a claim pauses during those 30 days.
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Delaware, USA, without regard to its conflict-of-law rules. Any dispute that isn't resolved informally goes to the state or federal courts located in Delaware, and you and we agree to their jurisdiction. Either of us can also take a claim to small claims court where you live. If you're a consumer living outside the United States, you keep the protection of the mandatory laws of your country, and you can bring a claim in your local courts, which are also where we'd have to bring any claim against you.
Changes and the fine print
We'll update these terms as Holy Ore grows, and change the date at the top when we do. If a change matters, we'll tell you in the game or by email before it takes effect, and if you keep playing after that, you accept the new terms. A change never applies to a dispute that started before it took effect.
- If the game moves. We may transfer these terms and Holy Ore to another company that takes over the game, such as Wavy Studios once it's its own company, or a buyer or successor. We'll tell you when that happens. Your terms move with it, and from then on "we" means that company. You can't transfer your account or these terms to someone else.
- The whole agreement. These terms, our Privacy Policy and the terms of anything we might sell one day are the whole agreement between you and us about Holy Ore.
- If one part doesn't hold. If a court finds part of these terms unenforceable, the rest still applies.
- No silent waivers. If we don't enforce a term right away, we can still enforce it later.
Our Privacy Policy explains what we collect and why. Questions about these terms: support@wavelink.co.