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		lapetitejort on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New York Times buys Wordle Rules cannot be copyrighted. I can make a Wordle clone right now and as long as I don't reuse assets/names there's nothing they can do about it. See also 2048, which is a clone of 1024, which is a clone of Threes.

fouc on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, the similarities with 2048 is uncanny. Too bad Gabriele Cirulli never got a similar buyout.

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