LEGAL -- IP Rights, Terms of Use, Credits, etc.

Game Rights

All games under the CARDS, DOMINOES, and DICE tabs were invented by Howard Fosdick © 2015, 2023. Feel free to distribute these rules under the Creative Commons License BY-ND so long as you do not change them in any way or alter their attribution.

I'd love to hear from you about any recommendations for improving my games or this website. Send your feedback to 'webmasterA' at-sign-goes-here 'RexxInfo' a-period-goes-here 'org'.

This website is non-commercial and 100% ad-free.

Website Terms of Use

No Warranty / Disclaimer -- The information and links on this website are provided "as is" and without any express or implied warranties, including, without limitation, any implied warranties of merchantibility and fitness for a particular purpose. All information posted is merely for educational and informational purposes and is not intended as a substitute for professional advice. Should you decide to act upon any information on this website, you do so at your own risk. While the information on this website has been verified to the best of our abilities, we cannot guarantee that there are no mistakes or errors. Use of this website constitutes your agreement to this statement of No Warranty / Disclaimer.

Credits and Copyright

This is a non-commercial hobbyist website. It is our intention to respect all Copyright and Intellectual Property laws. Therefore all externally sourced items on this website are credited by their sources. If any item unintentionally violates a copyright, please forward appropriate documentation to us and we will remove the item.

Picture, Photo, and Clip Art Credits

We thank the World Camelot Federation for their kind permission to use several of their game board drawings and photographs. We highly recommend visiting their website for excellent information on Camelot and its variants.

We thank several websites for free clipart used in the game boards we designed. These clipart libraries are: Cliparts.co, ClipArtMag.com, Pixabay.com, PublicDomainVectors, ClipGround.com, ClipArLibrary.com, FavPng.com, and NicePng.com. Free wallpapers used as background in some boards from: GetWallPapers.com, WallPaperSafari.com.

We thank the inventors of Arimaa and Martian Chess for allowing non-commercial use of their written rules. We urge enthusiasts to buy these games directly from their inventors to reward and encourage them for creating such entertaining and challenging games.

Bent Y printable designs were adapted from backgrounds at Hexwiki listed under CC BY-SA 3.0 license. The brown and white Ringo board appears courtesy of the Bona Ludo Blog. The tan Conspirators board board appears courtesy of Wikipedia By Ihardlythinkso CC BY-SA 3.0. Both Chinese Checkers boards appear courtesy of ClipArtKey.com. The black background board is courtesy of Rafa Delannon, the white background board from Kazunari Utsunomiya.

Credits for pictures of Romans playing board games: (1) earlyworksweebly.com (2) aerobiologicalengineering.com (3) arthistoryresources.net (4) crystalinks.com (5) classroomadventures.co.uk.

Original Art

The three drawings of the chipmunks playing cards, dominoes, and dice are original artworks by Chicago-based Kristin Swain.

Kristin caused quite a stir a few years ago. When the historic building in downtown Chicago at 209 West Lake Street was refurbished, workers knocked out a wall... only to find a second brick wall covered with an astounding full-sized mural!

The artwork depicted several goddesses in various incarnations. Some appeared strict and matriarchal, while others floated as if ethereal and angelic. Behind them strode wide-eyed dragons, alertly guarding their female masters.

Art experts determined that the work was likely a lost masterpiece by world-famous Austrian painter Gustav Klimt (1862-1918). Eventually, the real, forgotten story finally emerged. Kristin Swain had been commissioned to create the mural two decades earlier for a long-defunct nightclub. Along with assistants Peggy Robinson and Rob Soller, Swain free-handed the gigantic mural "in the style of Klimt." Somewhere along the way, between changes in property ownership and a rehab that covered up the original art, the history of the mural and who had created it was lost.

Needless to say, we're thrilled Kristin has permitted us to post her orginal artwork on this website.

All other paintings on this website are public domain works by deceased artists.

Websites

Thank you to several websites covering game theory, statistical analysis, and binomial probability distribution. These were useful in analyzing game design (though the ultimate verification comes only through play): Stat Trek @ stattrek.com, Statistics How To @ statisticshowto.com, and About Education @ statistics.about.com.

Software

All development was done with open source software that creates a platform fully competitive with commercial offerings. No proprietary software was used. I gratefully acknowledge the developers of this free and open source software:

• Linux -- Open source operating system

  (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux)

• Mint -- A Linux version or "distribution"

  (www.LinuxMint.com)

• Xfce -- A user interface for Linux that runs well on older computers

  (http://xfce.org)

• Bluefish -- HTML editor

  (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl)

• Bluegriffon -- HTML editor

  (http://bluegriffon.org)

• KompoZer -- HTML editor

  (http://kompozer.net)

• SeaMonkey Composer -- HTML editor

  (www.seamonkey-project.org)

• HTML, CSS -- Languages for creating web pages

  (http://html.spec.whatwg.org/ and http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS/#css)

• HTML, CSS Validators -- Tools for creating correct web pages

  (http://validator.w3.org/ and http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/)

• Firefox -- Web browser

  (www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new)

• Chromium -- Web browser

  (http://www.chromium.org/Home)

• Brave -- Web browser

  (http://brave.com)

• Epiphany -- Web browser

  (http://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Web)

• LibreOffice -- A Microsoft-compatible office suite

  (www.LibreOffice.org)

• Impress -- LibreOffice component used to draw the maps

  (www.LibreOffice.org)

• Writer -- LibreOffice component for word processing

  (www.LibreOffice.org)

• Leafpad, vi, others -- Text editors

  (http://sourceforge.net))

• Artha -- English dictionary for definitions and spell-checking that doesn't require a web connection

  (www.artha.sourceforge.net)

• Awk, Sed, Grep, Cut, Tr, others -- Text analysis LC primitives

  (www.gnu.org/software/ and http://sourceforge.net)

• Bash, C, Awk, Rexx -- Programming languages I used for text processing, encoding, and analysis

  (http://sourceforge.net)

• PDFtk, Minuimus -- Toolkits for PDF manipulation and conversions

  (www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit and http://birds-are-nice.me/software/minuimus.html)

• Calibre, Pandoc -- For file conversions, etc

  (https://calibre-ebook.com/ and https://pandoc.org/)

• Gimp -- Primary tool for image manipulation, compression, etc

  (http://www.gimp.org)

• jpegoptim, gueztil, convert, cwebp, simple-scan, xsane, EOM -- Tools for image manipulation, compression, etc

  (http://sourceforge.net)

• Audacity, EasyABC, Midi -- For musical capture, editing, and conversion

  (http://www.audacityteam.org/, http://sourceforge.net/projects/easyabc, and www.midi.org)

• Aisleriot Solitaire, PySolFC Solitaire -- Over 1,000 patience games for tea breaks

  (http://pysolfc.sourceforge.net and http://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Aisleriot)

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