diff --git a/website/public/playground/playground.js b/website/public/playground/playground.js
index 1bd592748..a6b9923e2 100644
--- a/website/public/playground/playground.js
+++ b/website/public/playground/playground.js
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import { DUCKDB_DIR, DUCKDB_WASM_BYTES } from './duckdb-version.js';
 import { ENGINE_DIR, ENGINE_WASM_BYTES } from './engine-version.js';
 import { CAPTIONS, EXAMPLE_GROUPS, EXAMPLES, ROWS, SCHEMA, stopLabel } from './examples.js';
-import { escape, rendered, resultTable, underlined } from './spans.js';
+import { escape, previewLimit, rendered, resultTable, underlined } from './spans.js';
 
 const here = (path) => new URL(path, import.meta.url).href;
 const ENGINE_WASM = here(`${ENGINE_DIR}sqlquack_wasm_bg.wasm`);
@@ -362,6 +362,8 @@ async function execute() {
 	if (!sql) return;
 	const ticket = ++running;
 	setStage('run', 'running', '');
+	// Whether the error came from the translated statement itself, after the fixture loaded.
+	let ranStatement = false;
 	try {
 		if (!duckdb) await startDuckDB();
 		const conn = await duckdb.db.connect();
@@ -371,6 +373,7 @@ async function execute() {
 			for (const table of tables.tables) await conn.query(table.replace(/^CREATE TABLE/, 'CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE'));
 			if (rowsBox.value.trim()) await conn.query(rowsBox.value);
 			const started = performance.now();
+			ranStatement = true;
 			// Every value as DuckDB's own text, so decimals and timestamps show exactly.
 			const result = await conn.query(`SELECT COLUMNS(*)::VARCHAR FROM (${sql}) AS result`);
 			const elapsed = performance.now() - started;
@@ -392,6 +395,20 @@ async function execute() {
 		const failure = JSON.parse((await engine('failure', { message })).result);
 		if (ticket !== running) return;
 		const version = duckdb ? `DuckDB ${duckdb.version}` : '';
+		if (!failure.errno && ranStatement && previewLimit(message)) {
+			setStage(
+				'run',
+				'refused',
+				'<p class="pg-conversion-note"><strong>A limit of the in-browser DuckDB, not of the translation.</strong> ' +
+					'This page runs a preview build of DuckDB-WASM, which could not run this translated SQL. SQLQuack translates for ' +
+					'native DuckDB 2.0: <code>sqlquack convert</code> binds every translated statement in native DuckDB before ' +
+					'returning it, so run it there to see the result.</p>' +
+					terminal(`<span class="dim">DuckDB-WASM:</span> ${escape(message)}`),
+				version,
+				'not run here',
+			);
+			return;
+		}
 		if (!failure.errno) {
 			setStage('run', 'fail', terminal(`<span class="bad">DuckDB:</span> ${escape(message)}`), version);
 			return;
diff --git a/website/public/playground/spans.js b/website/public/playground/spans.js
index d0002d0fa..b85cf71bd 100644
--- a/website/public/playground/spans.js
+++ b/website/public/playground/spans.js
@@ -69,3 +69,10 @@ export function resultTable(names, columns) {
 	const head = names.map((name) => `<th>${escape(name)}</th>`).join('');
 	return { html: `<div class="pg-rows"><table><thead><tr>${head}</tr></thead><tbody>${body.join('')}</tbody></table></div>`, rows };
 }
+
+// Whether a DuckDB-WASM error on a translated statement comes from the in-browser engine rather
+// than from the rows: a statement it could not bind or plan, or a crash of the WebAssembly engine.
+// The playground runs a preview build of DuckDB-WASM; errors about values (conversion, out of
+// range) would be raised by native DuckDB too, so they are not counted.
+const PREVIEW_LIMITS = /^(Binder|Catalog|Parser|Not implemented|INTERNAL) Error|memory access out of bounds|unreachable|RuntimeError/;
+export const previewLimit = (message) => PREVIEW_LIMITS.test(message);
diff --git a/website/tests/playground.test.mjs b/website/tests/playground.test.mjs
index c0a11a151..27b0b0a61 100644
--- a/website/tests/playground.test.mjs
+++ b/website/tests/playground.test.mjs
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import { dirname, join } from 'node:path';
 import { test } from 'node:test';
 
 import { initSync, analyze, fixture_tables, run_failure } from '../wasm/pkg/sqlquack_wasm.js';
-import { rendered, resultTable, underlined } from '../public/playground/spans.js';
+import { previewLimit, rendered, resultTable, underlined } from '../public/playground/spans.js';
 
 initSync({ module: readFileSync(new URL('../wasm/pkg/sqlquack_wasm_bg.wasm', import.meta.url)) });
 
@@ -119,6 +119,15 @@ test('every example chip stops at the stage its label names, the Run stage inclu
 	assert.ok(CAPTIONS.refused);
 });
 
+test('a run error from the in-browser DuckDB is told apart from an error about the rows', () => {
+	// What the preview build of DuckDB-WASM reported for a translated DATEADD that native DuckDB 2.0 runs.
+	assert.ok(previewLimit("Binder Error: No function matches the given name and argument types '+(DATE, INTERVAL)'."));
+	assert.ok(previewLimit('memory access out of bounds'));
+	// Errors about values would come from native DuckDB too.
+	assert.ok(!previewLimit("Conversion Error: Could not convert string 'x' to INT32"));
+	assert.ok(!previewLimit('Invalid Input Error: Attempting to fetch from an unsuccessful query result'));
+});
+
 test('translated SQL is laid out one clause per line unless the compact setting asks for one line', () => {
 	const sql = "SELECT order_id, note, 'a longer literal' AS label FROM orders WHERE order_id > 1";
 	const translated = (settings) => JSON.parse(analyze(sql, SCHEMA, JSON.stringify(settings))).translate.statements[0].sql;