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> Almost no one had heard of Lingo/Wordle before this, now they have, so that counts for something.

Per Wikipedia it aired in 17 countries over 35 years and counting, so it seems relatively widespread to me.

(You’d be hard pressed to find a Dutch person who hasn’t heard of it!)

Something I've learned is that if people like the copycat enough, they will always defend it. That's what happened to Threes/2048, and that's what will happen here. The wiggle room between Lingo <-> Wordle is narrow compared to Threes <-> 2048, but people will find a way.

Interestingly, this means that copying stuff will not come back to bite you, even when you get popular - as long as you copy ideas and not assets/characters/etc.

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