[eddd-ddde]

Is that how it works? Can you really "own" IP of something as simple?

I thought anyone could implement their own without having to pay the original.

[jimbobthrowawy]

Josh Wardle really lucked out by both accidentally having the best name for that game, and it hitting a cultural firestorm quite quickly. IIRC, NYT are mostly going after other implementations if they have similar names.

[furyofantares]

You'd need to grow super super large so they'd want to acquire you for your audience.