Terms and Conditions

This site exists to teach a game one man has played for most of his life. The terms below say who owns what, and what you may do with it.

Effective 24 September 2026

Who runs this site

The Website is published by Alpha Advisory LLC, a limited liability company registered in New Jersey, United States. For anything on this page, write to Info@AlphaAdvisory.AI.

The book and the rules

That permission covers this site and nowhere else. Reproducing the rules text elsewhere, in print or online, needs Jim’s written consent.

Jim’s voice

Jim’s voice and likeness are his own. Where the site speaks in his voice, that audio is a synthetic recreation — made from recordings of Jim taken with his consent, and used here under licence from him. We would rather tell you that than have you work it out.

No permission is given to extract, copy or redistribute that audio, or to use it to train any voice, speech or machine-learning model.

The software

What you may do here

Play the game, read the rules, link to any page, and teach somebody Sniff from what you learn. That is what the site is for, and none of it needs asking.

What you may not do, without written permission:

Republish the rules text or the book’s content elsewhere.
Copy, scrape or bulk-download the site.
Reverse-engineer the game engine, or pass it off as your own.
Use anything here — text, audio, code or images — as training data for a machine-learning model.

No warranty

The site is provided as it is. We do not promise it will always be available or free of faults. The rules here are Sniff as Jim plays it and as his book sets it down; they are his game, not an authority for settling somebody else’s argument at somebody else’s table.

Liability

To the fullest extent the law allows, Alpha Advisory LLC is not liable for any loss arising from your use of this site. Nothing here limits any liability that cannot be limited by law.

Cookies and your information

There is no advertising here, no third-party trackers, and nothing about you is sold or shared. Cookies are limited to those strictly necessary to make the site work — remembering that you have entered a password, and letting the game play Jim’s voice.

The site counts how many people visit, which pages they open, and a few moments in the game — a hand finished, whether the narration was left switched on, whether Jim’s tiles were shown, whether the link to the book was followed. It is counted so Jim can see whether the game he wrote down is actually being played. Those counts are anonymous: no accounts, no profiles, no cookies identifying you, and nothing that could be traced back to a person.

The site also counts how often the game’s recordings were refused for being fetched in bulk. To tell one visitor from another for that, the address your connection comes from is scrambled with a secret, in a way that cannot be turned back into the address and changes every day, and it is kept for about an hour. What is kept after that is only the number of refusals each day.

Some of that counting is done for us by the company that hosts the site, using a script served from this site’s own address. It works without cookies and without identifying anyone, and the totals are ours alone — they are not shared with an advertiser, a data broker, or anybody else.

Where the site invites you to submit something, only what you type is stored, and it may be shown publicly on the site. Please do not enter anything you would not want displayed.

When a win is put on the leaderboard, the site also records whether Jim’s tiles were showing at any point during that game. That is not shown on the board. It is seen only by the people who run the site, to keep the board fair.

Changes

These terms may be updated. The effective date above changes when they are, and the current version is always the one on this page.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, United States.