For parents
A straight guide for grown-ups
Hank’s Games is made by a parent, for kids like his own. Here’s exactly how the site works, what it does and doesn’t collect, and why it’s a calm place to spend a few minutes.
No accounts, ever
There is no sign-up, no login, and no password. Your child never creates an account and never has to give an email address or a name. They open the site, pick a game, and play. Nothing about the games is gated behind a profile.
What we collect: almost nothing
Hank’s Games is built to collect as little as possible, on purpose, because it’s aimed at young children.
- High scores use three initials. If your child gets a top-ten time, the game asks for three letters — the arcade tradition. Those initials and the score are the only things saved. They are not a name, an email, or anything that identifies your child.
- No chat, no messaging, no user uploads. There is no way for players to talk to each other or to send anything, so there’s no exposure to strangers.
- Anonymous counters only. The “visitors” and “games played” numbers on the home page are simple anonymous tallies. They don’t use cookies to track anyone or build a profile.
About the ads
To help cover the cost of running the site, Hank’s Games may show a small banner ad at the top of a page. Because this is a site directed to children, we require that any advertising is treated as child-directed: that means non-personalized ads only, with interest-based advertising and remarketing turned off. In plain terms, ads here are not based on tracking your child around the web. We also deliberately avoid the kinds of pop-up and full-screen ads that interrupt play — if ads appear, they sit quietly at the top, above the game.
Designed to be calm and kind
The games are gentle by design. There’s cartoon mischief — raccoons in the trash, a goofy evil scientist, a rival pizza shop — but no realistic violence, no scary content, and no dark themes. Several games can’t even be “lost”: in Raccoon Raider a bad run is just a slower time, never a game-over, so a small child never gets knocked out of the fun.
Good for screen-time limits
Because rounds are short — usually well under three minutes — Hank’s Games fits naturally into whatever limits you set. “One more game” really is just a couple of minutes, which makes it easy to agree on a stopping point. There’s no endless world designed to keep your child playing for hours, and no reward system engineered to be hard to put down.
Works on the device you already have
Everything runs in a normal web browser on a phone, tablet, Chromebook, or computer. There’s nothing to install and nothing to keep updated. Touch controls appear on phones and tablets; a keyboard works on a computer.
A note on our responsibility: we follow the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) approach of treating this as a child-directed site. Our tools are set up to support that, but no website can replace a parent’s judgement. You know your child best, and we’d always encourage playing together when you can — these games are more fun with two people arguing over the high score anyway.
Questions?
If anything here is unclear, the FAQ answers the most common questions, and How the games are made explains the technical side in plain language.