Terms of Service
Break & Run, the 8-ball pool game at playbreakandrun.com and in the Break & Run app for iPhone. Last updated November 5, 2026.
These terms apply when you play Break & Run. By playing, you agree to them. If you don't agree, please don't play.
Who can play
You must be at least 13 years old to make an account, play online or use tokens. If you are under the age of majority where you live, a parent or guardian must agree to these terms for you.
Your account
Keep your sign-in to yourself: you are responsible for what happens on your account. One person, one account. We may suspend or close an account that cheats, tampers with the game or its servers, harasses other players, or breaks these terms, and an account closed for that loses its tokens and cues.
Messages
Where the game lets you message another player, be kind: no abuse, threats, harassment, hate, spam or anything illegal, and nothing you wouldn't want kept. Any player can block you, and report a message to us from the conversation's menu; we read every report. We may remove your access to messages, or close your account, if you break these rules.
Tokens and cues
- Tokens are the game's points. You get them free (when you save your account, for winning ranked games, and as prizes at league tables) and use them for cues and league entries. Only a saved account holds tokens.
- Tokens and cues are a license to use them in Break & Run, which we grant you; you don't own them. They have no cash value. They can't be exchanged for money or anything else outside the game, sold back to us, sold to anyone, transferred, traded or given to another account, and they don't carry over if your account is deleted.
- Tokens don't expire while your account exists. Once you use tokens, that can't be undone.
- We may change what cues there are, what they cost and what they do, to keep the game fair and fun. A cue you have stays yours to use.
- If you spot tokens or a cue you shouldn't have, from a bug or a mistake, we may correct it.
League rules
These are the official rules of the leagues in Break & Run. Joining a table means you agree to them, as well as to the rest of these terms.
- Sponsor. The leagues are run by Break & Run, which you can reach at [email protected]. Apple is not a sponsor of, and is not involved in, these leagues, and neither are Google, Facebook or anyone else but us.
- Who may enter. Anyone 13 or older with a saved account (a guest profile can't sit at a table). Paid tables are not open to players connecting from Washington State; free tables are. The leagues are void where prohibited.
- Entry. Each kind of table shows its entry in tokens before you join, and the entry is taken when you sit down. There is always a free table, with an entry of 0, so nobody has to pay to play for a prize. You may sit at one free table at a time. Until a table starts you may leave it, and your entry comes back.
- Format. A table seats the number of players it shows before you join (4 or 8 today), and starts once every seat is taken. Everyone at it then plays everyone else once, as a ranked game of 8-ball with no shot clock: each move has 3 days, and a move not made in time loses that game. The table ends 7 days after it starts (or after the days it shows, if different), or sooner once all its games are over. A move not made by the time the table ends loses that game too, so every game at a table counts: a game still unfinished then is lost by the player whose move it is.
- Places. Players are placed by the games they won. Players level on wins are placed by the games they won against each other, then by the balls they potted in the table's games that finished, then by who sat down first.
- Prizes. Each table shows the prize for each place, in tokens, before you join. Prizes are paid into the winners' tokens when the table ends. The prizes of a free table, and of any table whose prizes come to more than its entries (which the table says before you join), are paid to an account at most once every 7 days, counting all such tables together: a prize place at such a table that ends within 7 days of such a prize paid to the same account keeps its place, but its prize isn't paid. Tokens have no cash value and can't be exchanged for money or anything else (see Tokens and cues). A prize for an account deleted before the table ends is not paid.
- A table that doesn't fill. A table that isn't full in time is cancelled, and every entry comes back. Each kind of table shows its time before you join: the time left on the table filling now, or, when none is, how long a table has from its first seat (3 days today).
- Fair play. Every league game is played with the same full-strength cue for both players, whatever cues they own. No playing your own other accounts, no sharing an account, no arranging results and no deliberately losing. We may void the results of a player who breaks these rules or the rest of these terms, remove them from a table, and take back a prize paid for it.
- Changes. We may change what tables are offered, their entries and their prizes; a table already open keeps the entry and prizes it showed when you joined. If a fault on our side spoils a table, we may cancel it and give every entry back.
Rankings
Your rank (the # beside your name) is your place among ranked players, worked out from your results in ranked online games. We may reset a rank that comes from cheating or from playing your own other accounts.
Fair play
No cheating: no bots, no changing the game or the requests it sends, no playing your own accounts against each other, and no deliberately losing to someone. Our servers check every online shot; a game that doesn't check out may be taken back with what it earned.
The game itself
We work to keep the game running, but we can't promise it will always be available or free of bugs, and we may change it or stop it. Break & Run is provided as it is. To the extent the law allows, we aren't liable for indirect losses, and our total liability to you is limited to what you paid us in the 12 months before the claim (if anything). Nothing in these terms takes away rights you have by law.
Apple
If you play the iPhone app, Apple is not a party to these terms and is not responsible for the game or its support. Apple and its subsidiaries are third-party beneficiaries of these terms and may enforce them.
Changes and contact
We may update these terms; the date at the top says when. If a change matters, we'll say so in the game. Questions: [email protected]. Our privacy policy says what we keep and why.