Credits

Credits

Provenance and licensing for all bundled/generated content.

Kalimat

• Allowed guesses: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/tabatkins/wordle-list/main/words (MIT, tabatkins/wordle-list).
• Answers word set: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/cfreshman/a03ef2cba789d8cf00c08f767e0fad7b/raw/wordle-answers-alphabetical.txt (word list, no stated license).
• Answer order: seeded shuffle (seed 20261110) of the answers word set; no third-party order is used.

See data/kalimat/SOURCES.md for full details.

Strands

• Puzzles are original: generated by tools/strands/generate.mjs from hand-authored theme banks (data/strands/themes.json).
• Dictionary (data/strands/dictionary.json): ENABLE https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dolph/dictionary/master/enable1.txt (public domain) ∩ Wordnik https://github.com/wordnik/wordlist wordlist-20210729.txt (MIT, © Wordnik).
• Word-commonness ranking during generation: FrequencyWords en_50k.txt https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords (CC BY-SA 4.0, Hermit Dave); used as a signal only, not redistributed.

See data/strands/SOURCES.md for full details.

Irtibat

Original puzzles authored for this project (see data/irtibat/SOURCES.md). No third-party data.

Crossword

• 1924 puzzles (data/crossword/gutenberg.json): grids and clues from The Cross Word Puzzle Book, series 1–3 (New York World / Simon & Schuster, 1924), Project Gutenberg eBooks #68267 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68267, #68681 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68681, #68792 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68792 — public domain in the USA. The 1924 answer booklets were never digitised, so only the 2 puzzles we solved and cross-verified (tools/gutenberg/solutions/) are included.
• 15×15 grid templates (tools/xword/templates15.json): original, generated for this project.
• Generated 15×15 puzzles (the rest of data/crossword/puzzles.json, tools/xword/generate-crossword.mjs): same word-list and clue sources as the Mini (ENABLE/Wordnik ∩ FrequencyWords fill; curated original clues, else Open English WordNet glosses, CC BY 4.0).

See data/crossword/SOURCES.md for full details.

Crossword word list and clue glosses (shared by the Mini and generated crosswords)

• Fill list data/wordlists/fill.json: ENABLE https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dolph/dictionary/master/enable1.txt (public domain) ∪ Wordnik https://github.com/wordnik/wordlist wordlist-20210729.txt (MIT, © Wordnik), intersected with and scored by FrequencyWords en_50k.txt https://github.com/hermitdave/FrequencyWords (CC BY-SA 4.0, Hermit Dave) — the derived list is CC BY-SA 4.0.
• Clue glosses data/clues/glosses.json: shortened definitions from Open English WordNet 2025 https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet (CC BY 4.0, © Open English WordNet contributors), derived from Princeton WordNet 3.0 (WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University; license reproduced in data/clues/SOURCES.md). Changes: definitions trimmed/inflected into crossword clues.

See data/wordlists/SOURCES.md and data/clues/SOURCES.md.

Mini

• Puzzles are original: 5×5 grids generated by tools/xword/generate-mini.mjs with the project's own filler, clued from the original curated clue bank (data/clues/curated.json) first and the Open English WordNet glosses above second.

See data/mini/SOURCES.md for full details.