Where do apps save their data?

I recently wiped my hard drive and put most things back  on but all my game data has dissapeared. For example in Real Racing 2, I finished the entire game but now I have to start all over. On Bloon TD 5, I was level 65, but now I'm level 1 again.
Where can I find the data so I can put it in my current hard drive?
Please Respond.

Triple-click the line below on this page to select it, then copy the text to the Clipboard by pressing the key combination  command-C:
~/Library/Containers
In the Finder, select
Go ▹ Go to Folder...
from the menu bar, paste into the box that opens (command-V). You won't see what you pasted because a line break is included. Press return. A folder will open. All current App Store products store their data in a subfolder of that folder. You can identify the subfolder by the name of the developer and/or the app.

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