While I know these are different jams, it seems kinda weird to see even the exact same wording as a big jam that recently ended. Was this intentional? Or a case of random being too random?

It's a pretty common game jam theme, I'm not surprised another jam had the same theme.

We chose the theme several months ago and were not aware of other Jams using the theme. When choosing a theme we consulted some public lists of themes for ideas, so it's possible they used a similar ones for generating their ideas.

Good enough for me! Thanks for the insight