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'The New York Times' buys Wordle
The New York Times has acquired Wordle, a simple word guessing game, for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures, the newspaper announced Monday.
The game, created by Josh Wardle, will initially continue to be free to play.
Wordle, which was released in October 2021, is a daily word puzzle that has soared in popularity, amassing millions of daily players within months.
To play the game, players have six tries to guess a five-letter word. Many users choose to share their results — a grid of green, yellow and black boxes — on social media.
Also at CNN.
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Conquering Russia should be done steppe by steppe.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 02 2022, @05:44PM
Board games and board game mechanics are notoriously not-strictly-enforced. (Or rather, they are enforced in the way that regular people think they should be, rather than Disney/Microsoft style enforcement. ) You can check for advice for new board-game makers and they say to not bother getting patents or trademarks on your games, as they are worth less than the paper they are written on.
Just think "Words with Friends," as an example.
This does raise the question of why the New York Times spent so much to buy this. The answer, I suspect, is that they are spending the money to buy the brand recognition and user base, not the literal code, which a good developer could white-box write from scratch in a couple of days.