Credits

The Buff hides an artwork behind every puzzle. Here is all 45 of them, the joke name you earn by solving it, and the painting it is after.

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Blown Away after “Woman with a Parasol” Claude Monet, 1875
Sweet Enough after “L'Absinthe” Edgar Degas, 1876
Big Blue Boots after “The Blue Boy” Thomas Gainsborough, 1770
Liberty Leading the Party after “Liberty Leading the People” Eugene Delacroix, 1830
The Big Carrot after “The Gleaners” Jean-Francois Millet, 1857
The Last Food Fight after “The Last Supper” Leonardo da Vinci, 1498
Tongue Tide after “The Great Wave off Kanagawa” Katsushika Hokusai, 1831
Picnic Panic after “Luncheon on the Grass” Edouard Manet, 1863
Disco Earring after “Girl with a Pearl Earring” Johannes Vermeer, 1665
Shoe Fly after “The Swing” Jean-Honore Fragonard, 1767
Hobby Horse after “Napoleon Crossing the Alps” Jacques-Louis David, 1801
Frog Splash after “Water Lilies” Claude Monet, 1915
Double Trouble after “The Ambassadors” Hans Holbein the Younger, 1533
Lady of the Quack after “The Lady of Shalott” John William Waterhouse, 1888
The Spillmaid after “The Milkmaid” Johannes Vermeer, 1658
Pillow Fight after “The Bedroom” Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Sunny Side Up after “Sunflowers” Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Sunday Funday after “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” Georges Seurat, 1885
Moulin Groove after “Bal du moulin de la Galette” Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876
Ice Slide after “Hunters in the Snow” Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1565
Bath Time after “The Death of Marat” Jacques-Louis David, 1793
Tower of Bagels after “The Tower of Babel” Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1563
Wind Section after “The Flute Concert of Frederick the Great at Sanssouci” Adolph Menzel, 1852
Pop Goes the Lisa after “Mona Lisa” Leonardo da Vinci, 1517
Tug of War after “The Fighting Temeraire” J. M. W. Turner, 1839
Party Raft after “The Raft of the Medusa” Theodore Gericault, 1819
Pool Party after “Ophelia” John Everett Millais, 1852
Peel Scream after “The Scream” Edvard Munch, 1893
Snooze Button after “Impression, Sunrise” Claude Monet, 1872
Arnolfini's Dog after “The Arnolfini Portrait” Jan van Eyck, 1434
Las Perros after “Las Meninas” Diego Velazquez, 1656
Mother's Day Off after “Arrangement in Grey and Black No. 1” James Abbott McNeill Whistler, 1871
Roasted after “American Gothic” Grant Wood, 1930
The Group Chat after “The School of Athens” Raphael, 1511
Tiger Kiss after “The Kiss” Gustav Klimt, 1908
Ear Muffs after “Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear” Vincent van Gogh, 1889
So Close after “The Creation of Adam” Michelangelo, 1512
The Cat Players after “The Card Players” Paul Cezanne, 1894
Twinkle Twinkle after “The Starry Night” Vincent van Gogh, 1889
Beach Day after “The Birth of Venus” Sandro Botticelli, 1485
Confetti Cannon after “The Third of May 1808” Francisco Goya, 1814
Party Watch after “The Night Watch” Rembrandt van Rijn, 1642
Pancake Terrace after “Cafe Terrace at Night” Vincent van Gogh, 1888
Gone Apples after “Still Life with a Basket of Apples” Paul Cezanne, 1893
Hay There after “The Hay Wain” John Constable, 1821

Where these come from

Every painting credited above was made at least a century ago and is in the public domain — its copyright has expired, so it is free to copy, adapt and sell from. The versions in the game are AI-generated parodies: the compositions and characters are reworked for comedy, which is what each puzzle piece reveals as you solve.

Because the images are machine-generated, they carry no copyright of their own in the United States. They are credited here as a courtesy to the original artists and so you can check the provenance yourself.

On privacy

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