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		thaumasiotes on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New York Times buys Wordle There doesn't seem to be any reason you'd acquire Wordle in the first place. It's trivial to recreate it.

0xcde4c3db on Jan 31, 2022 [–]

I assume that they're buying the brand, not the product.

TameAntelope on Jan 31, 2022 | [–]

Yeah, I'm fairly confident they'll just reimplement it in their own app, as the code is trivial and honestly porting it would be harder.

I wouldn't be surprised if someone at NYT already built it and has it feature flagged off or something.

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