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As a Dutchman I find the Wordle craze a bit strange since it has been on our national television as a game show for decades under the name Lingo.

• webkike 5y ago
  Wordle is a game everyone can play every 24 hours. The game show is… a game show
  • Dma54rhs 5y ago
    There were flash games in 2000's of wordle where you can play any time you want :)
    • webkike 5y ago
      And that makes it less appealing than Wordle still?
• TekMol 5y ago
  Jesus, you are right! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hqq3VjrcFc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Hqq3VjrcFc I guess this means, everybody can build games like this and the NYT would not be able to say they infringed on a game concept they own?
  • petepete 5y ago
    Lingo isn't wholly original. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jotto
    • hackernewds 5y ago
      Nothing is original. One who is tasked to create a pie from scratch will have to invent firstly the whole universe
  • Hasnep 5y ago
    Game concepts generally can't be copyrighted, in the US at least. From Wikipedia [1]: > gameplay elements of a video game are generally ineligible for copyright [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protection_of_video_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_property_protecti...
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• Vinnl 5y ago
  It was certainly very iconic in the Netherlands (coincidentally I just gave a lecture about it this week, based on [1]), but it has aired in a number of other countries as well, such as the US and France. I think the former even is the original [2]. [1] https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/ https://vincenttunru.com/hacking-a-gameshow/ [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lingo_(American_game_show)
• light_cone 5y ago
  Exactly, you can search "motus france 2" on youtube and you'll see the tv show that existed for decades in france.
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• hombre_fatal 5y ago
  Shouldn't be too strange that people might want to play a game themself instead of watch other people play a game they never knew of on TV in Dutch. There are probably a lot of good games out there that could be thoughtfully ported so that people can play. But you'll find that a naive clone by itself doesn't guarantee success.
• nigerian1981 5y ago
  Sure has and you wouldn’t get words like this on Wordle either https://youtu.be/U7qxpAUKy4c https://youtu.be/U7qxpAUKy4c