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I can't tell because it has been taken down—was the Wordle archive using the original game's javascript code, or was it a complete rewrite? Wordle is entirely c
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
I can't tell because it has been taken down—was the Wordle archive using the original game's javascript code, or was it a complete rewrite? Wordle is entirely client-side, so it would have been easy to do.
The game concept (probably) isn't copyrightable, but the code certainly is.
- IanCal 5y agoThe word list is absolutely copyrightable however.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoThat's not actually obvious to me—is it a creative work? I doubt Patrick Wardle manually wrote out every word in the array.
- IanCal 5y agoThe word list of acceptable answers isn't, that's just essentially all 5 letter words. The actual answer list is a manually curated list of words (cut down from 10-15k to 2-3k), chosen to be good fun to play with.