Dang, you thought Nintendo was bad? Check this out:
https://www.techspot.com/news/102188-new-york-times-clamps-down-wordle-imitators-dmca.html
https://www.techspot.com/news/102188-new-york-times-clamps-down-wordle-imitators-dmca.html
A "word guessing game" - I'm pretty sure there's been a famous type of these, long before Wordle.Have they patented it? Because you can't trademark/copyright an idea.
And the idea of a word guessing game is hardly a unique one, so I don't think it could be patented in any case.
All the clones need to do is change the branding to not be too similar, and they're in the clear. Nothing New York Times can do.
NY Times didn't even come up with the idea. It's a 1 to 1 clone of Mastermind, all they did was change colors to words instead, and change the presentation a little bit.
Crosswords are quite a bit different but it did cross my mind as well. Just didn't think it was the best example since the New York Times crossword is possibly the most famous example of a crossword and something many people associate New York Times with. Wordle is more similar to Mastermind than crosswords despite Mastermind not having anything to do with words.A "word guessing game" - I'm pretty sure there's been a famous type of these, long before Wordle.
Crosswords, that is. You need to guess what word fits into the boxes, using the provided clue (that can be vague as hell) and any letters you've surmised from other words.
It's literally impossible to trademark a "word guessing game". Scrabble too, in a sense.
All thanks to sarcastically speaking Charles M. Blow.Well for instance nowadays they have problems with Pepe Le Pew...etc.
I beg to differ.Wordle is more similar to Mastermind than crosswords despite Mastermind not having anything to do with words.