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“The Wordle clones appear to have been removed from the App Store” (twitter.com/macrumors)
5 points by switz on Jan 12, 2022 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


Wordle has been remarkably popular for a free app without any marketing effort behind it.

By my reckoning it crossed the International Adele Line on 2022-01-04:

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wordle,adele


Are there any aspects of Wordle that can be patented? AFAIK, game mechanics cannot be patented unless they are demonstrably novel (whatever that means).




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