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0 pointsjacquesm4y ago0 comments

Hasbro would have been another one: stick it next to the sales page for Scrabble, pretty strong audience overlap I would think, and they have an instant winner due to the reduced marketing costs.

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pvg4y ago· 2 in thread

NYT has been charging separately and extra for access to their word games online for years. 'tptacek's explanation isn't wrong, it just undersells it by a lot - word games have been an NYT premium sub business since before their news digital sub business took off.

jacquesmOP4y ago

I did not mean to imply that he was wrong, merely that from the sellers point of view there may have been other options.

pvg4y ago

Oh I meant it as - he's slightly-wrong-by-omission. NYT are (somewhat weirdly) the OG online word game hustlers.

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