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Eridrus on Jan 31, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: The New York Times buys Wordle

I think an undervalued bit of value here is that everyone is guessing the same word every day, enabling the social sharing of "wordle plots".

So even if you have a recreation, you need to own the canonical word list to gain the social sharing value that helped it spread.

IHLayman on Jan 31, 2022 [–]

I hope then that the NYT vetted the word list before buying the app. I can tell you that there is at least one Scrabble-banned word in the answer list.

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