Credits

This page lists everything that reaches your browser, with where it came from and its licence.

In the pages you load

WhatSourceLicence
Game code (Solitaire, Spider, FreeCell, Mahjong Solitaire, Sudoku, Minesweeper, Word Search, Jigsaw) and site scriptsWritten for Card & Puzzle GamesOur own
Playing cards (Pictures faces)By Adrian Kennard, with court cards based on 19th-century Goodall & Son designs. Generated with large corner numbers in our colors and made smaller for the web; no other changesCC0 (public domain)
Playing cards (Simple faces) and card backsDrawn by the page from text and the standard Unicode suit symbols (♠ ♥ ♦ ♣)Our own
Mahjong tile pictures (suits, winds and dragons)riichi-mahjong-tiles by FluffyStuff, made smaller for the web; the tile bodies, corner numbers and letters, and the White Dragon's frame are oursCC0 (public domain)
Mahjong flower and season picturesGlyphs from Noto Sans Symbols 2 by Google, served as a small subset of the fontSIL Open Font License 1.1
Mahjong Turtle layoutDrawn by us from the well-known shape of the classic layoutOur own
FontsYour device's own system font; no web fonts are downloadedn/a
Site iconMade for Card & Puzzle GamesOur own
StylesWritten for Card & Puzzle Games, compiled with Tailwind CSSMIT

Jigsaw pictures

Each picture is a public-domain work from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Open Access collection. The museum marked it public domain when we downloaded it. We resized the images and serve them ourselves. The museum doesn't endorse this site.

PictureWorkLicence
Apples and primrosesPaul Cézanne, Still Life with Apples and a Pot of Primroses, ca. 1890Public domain (CC0)
The Great WaveKatsushika Hokusai, Under the Wave off Kanagawa, ca. 1830–32Public domain (CC0)
IrisesVincent van Gogh, Irises, 1890Public domain (CC0)
The afternoon mealLuis Meléndez, The Afternoon Meal, ca. 1772Public domain (CC0)
Wheat field with cypressesVincent van Gogh, Wheat Field with Cypresses, 1889Public domain (CC0)
View of ToledoEl Greco (Domenikos Theotokopoulos), View of Toledo, ca. 1599–1600Public domain (CC0)
SunflowersVincent van Gogh, Sunflowers, 1887Public domain (CC0)
Wheat fieldsJacob van Ruisdael, Wheat Fields, ca. 1670Public domain (CC0)
The Rocky MountainsAlbert Bierstadt, The Rocky Mountains, Lander's Peak, 1863Public domain (CC0)

Puzzle data

WhatSourceLicence
Sudoku puzzlesGenerated and graded by our own softwareOur own
Daily card dealsGenerated from a fixed seed for each date. Solitaire and FreeCell deals are checked by our own solver; Spider deals are checked to open with a moveOur own
Mahjong boards and Minesweeper boardsGenerated by our own software: Mahjong boards are built so they can always be cleared, and Minesweeper boards are checked to need no guessingOur own
Word search themes and word listsWritten for Card & Puzzle GamesOur own
Word search filter list (words kept out of grids)Derived from profanity-list by David Sojevic, plus our own additions. Used only when making puzzles; it is not sent to your browser.MIT. Copyright (c) 2021 David Sojevic

Behind the scenes

The site runs on Ruby on Rails (MIT) and other open-source server software under their own licences. We test it with Playwright (Apache 2.0), Vitest (MIT), fast-check (MIT) and axe-core (MPL 2.0). None of these reaches your browser.