Effective 20 September 2026. Applies to the WordPlay web app at wordplay.jlrdev.co.za and to the WordPlay apps published on Google Play and the Apple App Store.
WordPlay itself is proprietary software, © 2026 JL Reynders, trading as JLR Dev, all rights reserved. It also includes third-party work used under the licences set out below. Those licences govern those components, and nothing in WordPlay's own terms reduces the rights they give you.
Copyright © 2026 JL Reynders, trading as JLR Dev. All rights reserved. The software, its design, artwork, name and its compiled word and puzzle data are proprietary. See the Terms of Use.
The Enhanced North American Benchmark Lexicon, released into the public domain by its authors. Used as the basis for the English list of accepted words, with a South African English layer added by us.
Status: public domain. No restriction on commercial use.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition, long out of copyright and in the public domain. Used for the definition shown after a solved English word, edited for length.
Status: public domain. Definitions reflect 1913 usage.
The Afrikaans (South Africa) hunspell dictionary distributed with LibreOffice, used to derive the list of accepted Afrikaans words. It is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
Status: LGPL. Attribution required, and we give it here. The LGPL licence text and the dictionary data as we received it are available on request from jan-louis@jlrdev.co.za, and we will supply them at no charge. Nothing in WordPlay's own licence restricts your rights under the LGPL in respect of that dictionary.
Copyright 2014 The Nunito Project Authors. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Copyright 2020 The Space Grotesk Project Authors. Licensed under the SIL Open Font License, Version 1.1.
Both fonts are served from this site rather than from a third party, so that playing WordPlay discloses nothing about you to anyone. The full licence text is bundled with the fonts and available at /public/fonts/OFL.txt.
WordPlay uses no JavaScript frameworks, no analytics libraries, no advertising software development kits and no third-party runtime code of any kind. The game you are running is the code we wrote, plus the fonts and word data named above. That is the complete list.
WordPlay is an independent game. It is not associated with, endorsed by or connected to Wordle or The New York Times Company. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
If you believe something here is incomplete or incorrect, or you want a copy of any licence text or source data we are obliged to supply, write to jan-louis@jlrdev.co.za and we will put it right.