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by gus_massa 4464 days ago
I guess they baned the word “flappy” in all their forms, to prevent an avalanche of “flappy bird” clones, and that includes “flippy”. The game mechanics is totally unrelated, but the name is “too” similar, for a very low value of similarity.
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They've got a Levenshtein distance of 3 (replace 'a' with 'i', delete 'd', replace 'r' with 't').