If you give a monkey a typewriter and enough time, eventually he’ll write Hamlet. The idea behind this old adage is that there are only so many possible iterations of a task, and given infinite time, eventually it will be repeated.

Well, it may take an eternity for a monkey to produce Hamlet, but how many variations can there possibly be on the nearly 500-year-old game of bingo?

According to one California-based company, there’s at least one more, and they won’t have anything to do with a competitor copying their version.

Buffalo Studios, founded in 2010, has accused the online gaming giant Zynga of copying its “innovative product” Bingo Blitz with the newly launched Zynga Bingo. Salim Mith, Buffalo Studios' vice president of product marketing and operations told VentureBeat: “We wanted to alert you to the striking similarities between Zynga’s recently announced game to our game Bingo Blitz.” Mith explained that Zynga copies several aspects of the game, including themed bingo rooms, cities, and “powerups.”

Judging by the million daily players Buffalo Studios claims to have enlisted on Bingo Blitz, the game is quite popular, apparently so much so that, according to Crunchbase, they now have 45 employees and claim to be the “No. 1 Bingo Game of Facebook.”

Creative infringement certainly can be a serious thing. But we're talking about bingo here. Bingo! Come on!

Most accounts we’ve been able to dig up trace the game back to the early 1500s in Italy, when it was apparently invented as the Italian National Lottery—Lo Giucco del Lotto d’Italia—which, according to Strangelife.com, has been played “without pause, at weekly intervals to this date.” (Click here for a brief history of bingo.)

The same Strangelife article also mentions a German lottery in the 1850s, a toy salesman in the 1920s, and, by 1934, an estimated 10,000 bingo games a week. That's a whole lot of iterations.

And if you give a monkey a typewriter and enough time, eventually he’ll write Hamlet.

Or, to be clear, since Shakespeare already wrote Hamlet, the monkey will copy it. And then he'll get started on bingo.