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		gowld on Jan 31, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The New York Times buys Wordle There is no Wordle IP except the name and the color scheme. Developer time would cost $10K. Customer base... who like wordle because it's a simple, clean, free, not NYT.

prawn on Feb 1, 2022 [–]

They could work around that last point pretty easily. Add NYT logo top left, add NYT puzzles promo and sub up-sell on the stats page after the daily play. That could be done in a way that wasn't overbearing.

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