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Re:NYT shutting down the Wordle archive by Wowfunhappy on Sunday March 13, 2022 @06:42PM (#30666471)
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.

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Re:NYT shutting down the Wordle archive by IanCal on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:46PM (#30666962)
The word list is absolutely copyrightable however.
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Re:NYT shutting down the Wordle archive by Wowfunhappy on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:48PM (#30666978)
That's not actually obvious to me—is it a creative work? I doubt Patrick Wardle manually wrote out every word in the array.
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Re:NYT shutting down the Wordle archive by IanCal on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:37PM (#30667278)
The 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.
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