When does someone's work on the internet become copyrighted?

Simon says is a memory game where "simon" outputs a sequence of 10 characters (r, g, b, y) and the user must repeat the sequence. create a for loop that compares the two strings. for each match, add one point to user_score. upon a mismatch, end the game. sample output with inputs: 'rrgbryybgy' 'rrgbbrybgy'