Credits and licenses
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Our own games
Most games on MindedGames are designed and programmed by us, including Queens, Star Battle, Tango, Zip, 2048, Tower of Hanoi, the memory tests and the brain tests. Their game covers were created for MindedGames.
Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection
Several logic and number puzzles run on engines from Simon Tatham’s Portable Puzzle Collection: nonogram, sudoku (all levels), jigsaw sudoku, killer sudoku, calcudoku, akari, hashi, shikaku, hitori, futoshiki, slitherlink, binairo, minesweeper, code breaker, masyu, mosaic, tents and the sliding puzzle.
The collection is released under the MIT license. Its license, exactly as it appears in the version we use (20260923.616da16):
This software is copyright 2004-2024 Simon Tatham.
Portions copyright Richard Boulton, James Harvey, Mike Pinna, Jonas Kölker, Dariusz Olszewski, Michael Schierl, Lambros Lambrou, Bernd Schmidt, Steffen Bauer, Lennard Sprong, Rogier Goossens, Michael Quevillon, Asher Gordon, Didi Kohen, and Ben Harris.
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the ‘Software’), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’, WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
Fonts
- Lexend, by Bonnie Shaver-Troup, Thomas Jockin and contributors, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1.
- Atkinson Hyperlegible Mono, by the Braille Institute of America, used under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. We use it for timers and scores, where every digit must be easy to tell apart.
Built with
- Astro, MIT license.
Trademarks
KenKen is a registered trademark of Nextoy, LLC. Mastermind is a trademark of its respective owner. LinkedIn is a trademark of LinkedIn Corporation. MindedGames is not affiliated with any of them; names are used only to describe similar puzzle rules.