Terms of Use

Last revised: May 7, 2026

These Terms of Use govern your use of the Knotwise Games website (the "Site") and the games, content, subscriptions and services made available through it (collectively, the "Services").

The Services are operated by Knotwise Games ("Knotwise", "we", "us", and "our"). Some features of the Services are subject to additional guidelines or rules, which are posted alongside those features and incorporated by reference into these Terms.

By accessing the Site or using the Services you (a) confirm that you have read, understood and agree to be bound by these Terms; (b) represent that you are old enough to enter into a binding agreement under the laws of your country, or that you are over the age of 16 and using the Services with the consent and supervision of a parent or legal guardian; and (c) accept that these Terms create a legally binding contract between you and Knotwise. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

1. Accounts

You can play many of our daily puzzles without an account. Some features — including subscriptions, archive access, and progress that follows you across devices — require you to create an account.

When you create an account, you agree to provide accurate information and to keep it up to date. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials confidential and for any activity that takes place under your account. If you believe your account has been used without your permission, please let us know straight away at hello@knotwise.games.

2. Access

We grant you a personal, limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, revocable licence to access and use the Services for your own non-commercial enjoyment, in accordance with these Terms.

We may add, change, suspend or remove features, puzzles, content or pricing at any time. We may also limit access to parts of the Services or to the whole of the Services for any user, at our discretion.

3. Acceptable Use & Feedback

You agree not to:

• use the Services in any way that breaks the law or someone else's rights;
• copy, scrape, reverse-engineer, or attempt to extract our puzzles, source code, or solutions in bulk;
• circumvent any access controls, paywalls or rate limits;
• upload viruses, attempt to overload the Services, or interfere with other players' use of the Services;
• use the Services to harass, abuse, or impersonate any other person; or
• create accounts using automated means.

If you send us feedback, suggestions, ideas or puzzle concepts, you grant us a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable licence to use, reproduce, adapt and incorporate that feedback into the Services without obligation to you. We love hearing from players, but we can't promise to use any specific suggestion or to credit you for it.

4. Making Purchases Through the Services

Some parts of the Services — including subscriptions and merchandise — require payment. By making a purchase you agree to pay the prices and any applicable taxes shown at checkout.

Subscriptions automatically renew at the end of each billing cycle until you cancel. You can cancel at any time from your account settings; cancellation takes effect at the end of the current billing cycle, and you'll keep access to subscriber features until then. We don't offer pro-rata refunds for partial cycles, except where required by law.

We may change subscription pricing on a going-forward basis. If we do, we'll give you reasonable notice before the change takes effect, and you'll be free to cancel before the new price applies.

5. Licences to Digital Items

All puzzles, illustrations, code, copy, audio, branding, and other content provided through the Services is owned by Knotwise or our licensors and is protected by copyright, trademark and other laws. Subject to these Terms, we grant you a personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable licence to access and enjoy that content for your own use.

You may not redistribute, sell, sub-licence or publicly display our puzzles or content without our written permission. Sharing a screenshot of your finished puzzle with friends is fine; reposting our daily puzzles to a competing service is not.

6. Indemnification

You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Knotwise, its officers, employees and affiliates from and against any claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or related to (a) your use of the Services, (b) your violation of these Terms, or (c) your violation of any rights of another person.

7. Terms Regarding Third-Party Services

The Services may link to or integrate with third-party services (for example, payment processors, analytics tools, app stores, or social platforms). Those third-party services have their own terms and privacy policies, and we don't control them. Your use of any third-party service is at your own risk.

8. Release

You release Knotwise from claims, demands and damages of every kind arising out of or in any way connected with disputes between you and other users of the Services. To the extent permitted by law, you waive any provision of any law that would otherwise limit a general release to claims you don't know or suspect to exist at the time of release.

9. Disclaimers

The Services are provided "as is" and "as available", with all faults and without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we disclaim all warranties, whether express, implied or statutory, including warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, and non-infringement. We don't warrant that the Services will be uninterrupted, error-free, or free of harmful components, or that any defects will be corrected.

10. Limitation on Liability

To the maximum extent permitted by law, Knotwise will not be liable for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, exemplary or punitive damages arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services, even if we've been advised of the possibility of such damages. Our total aggregate liability arising out of or related to these Terms or the Services will not exceed the greater of (a) the amount you paid us in the twelve months before the event giving rise to the liability, or (b) US$50.

11. Termination

We may suspend or terminate your access to the Services at any time, with or without notice, if we reasonably believe you have breached these Terms or if we are required to do so by law. You may stop using the Services and close your account at any time. Sections that by their nature should survive termination (including disclaimers, limitations on liability, indemnification and governing law) will survive.

12. General

These Terms make up the entire agreement between you and Knotwise about the Services. If any part of these Terms is held to be unenforceable, the rest will stay in effect. Our failure to enforce any right under these Terms isn't a waiver of that right. You may not assign or transfer these Terms without our written consent; we may assign these Terms freely. We may update these Terms from time to time and will indicate the date of the most recent revision at the top of this page; if we make material changes we'll let you know via the Services or by email.

If you have questions about these Terms, please email us at hello@knotwise.games.