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'Lingo' has teams drawing balls of different colours and competing head to head. It is not 'clone'. There are dozens of similar word games in various cultures with similar concepts of giving information about the presence of a letter and position of a letter in the word. Your response is a classical cynical mindset of a jealous person.

The question was about monetization, not about your engineer syndrome.

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Questioning the novelty of a letter based game sounds perfectly reasonable to me and does not call for any sort of insults.

It certainly happens frequently that a new game idea is stolen to make money in some app store, but it also actually often happens that a seemingly inovative new game was actually not that new to begin with.

Everything is a remix of other things that look like it. In this case it's the fact that everyone has the same word every day and you can compare how well you did that made it go viral.

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