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Articles groups the long-form Learn More pieces this atlas plans to write for its own entities, drafted in pairs per subject once article authoring resumes. Belongs here: a pending or published article and the entity it discusses, covering an athlete's career, a competition's history or a rule change in more depth than the entity's own structured facts allow. Does not belong here: any subject-matter entity itself, such as an athlete, a sport or a competition, which is filed under its own type instead.

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A 2010 Party Game Award and the Editions It Spawned

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A Captaincy Tested: Wally Lewis and the 1985 Football Assassination

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A card game built for a table of rivals

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A Clothesline Becomes the Wheel in an Australian Drinking Game

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A Cooperative Party Game With a Built-In Score Ceiling

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A Day for Sport Dated by the First Modern Olympics

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A discontinued 1987 game returned through an outside license rescue

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A dragon-hoard engine builder for quiet tables

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A Flash Prototype, Then Three Fresh Mysteries: How Detective Grimoire Grew

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A franchise card game built around Leaders and a separate resource deck

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A launch under lawsuit and in long lines

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A lawsuit tested how far Bang!'s hidden-role design could be copied

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A living card game built its campaign out of boons and burdens

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A lone royal against a protected army: how Maharajah and the Sepoys is won

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A Monopoly parody that changed only the setting

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A music game that refuses to keep score

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A novel trilogy gave a franchise its name, and Nintendo kept the original game home

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A prison board game and the argument over its subject

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A Shared Twelve-Card Start Shapes Every Game of Marvel Legendary, and the Line Keeps Growing Around It

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A state-built path from Asian Games preparation to world medals

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A Wargame Built Because Players Asked for the Biggest One

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A weekend of cuts and the prize that split the jury

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Abalone's Mensa Select Award And Its Cautiously Warm Debut Review

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Advanced Squad Leader: how a rules cleanup became a replacement system

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Aeroplane chess and its game of sixes

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Agricola as the Spiel des Jahres association describes it

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Ark Nova: a zoo built from a card player's habits

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Barcelona 1992: how one badminton program gave Indonesia its first Olympic gold

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Before FISA: when every rowing club raced by its own rules

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Begging and running the cards: how an all fours deal is negotiated

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Betting on Yourself: Calls and Special Cards in Tichu

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Between Boggle and Scrabble: how Bananagrams was received and awarded

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Blokus and Its Run of Industry Awards

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Bobby Orr and the business of being a star player

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Bolt Action's Third Edition Widened the Battlefield

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Botvinnik's three reigns, and the computer program he left behind

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Can't Stop: the arithmetic of pushing your luck

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Cards Against Humanity Made Black Friday Its Own Marketing Stunt

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Cards Before Tiles: The Disputed Birthplace of Mahjong

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Cassino: an English craze, an Italian myth and a game that outlived its home

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Chainmail's Man-for-Man Rules and Their Grandson, Swords and Spells

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Chance, turn-taking and a barrel of themed pirates

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Control turns, the spinner and the race to the finish in Articulate!

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Critical reception and the legacy of The Castles of Burgundy

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Critics called Monopoly Deal fast, though not always fair

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Critics Called Mysterium a Fusion of Dixit and Clue

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Critics praised Scotland Yard but found its detective side the weaker half

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Crocodile Dentist: how the lunge was tuned for fun and safety

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Crokinole's Contested Origins and the Rise of the World Championship

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Da Skid and the idol that split the Orks

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Denied the Captaincy in 2011, Carter Won the Next Final Himself

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Design for effect: how Squad Leader reduced infantry combat to three outcomes

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Dixit rewards a clue that only some players understand

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Don't Wake Daddy: a toy fair hit and its afterlife

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Duel Masters: shields, shared mana and a long life in Japan

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Eight editions of Warhammer and how the first box was received

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Expanded game, tournament deck and the 2010 reform of the Catan Card Game

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FIDE, Alekhine's death, and the making of a new world championship

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Forgeries, luck and the changing editions of Masterpiece

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Founded after hockey was left out of the 1924 Olympics

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Four Categories and One Final Task Decide Every Game of Cranium

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Four editions, four titles: the history of Adeptus Titanicus

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Four heroes, four routes to victory

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Four phases to a turn: how a Battlefleet Gothic battle is fought

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From 26 shapes to 25: how Perfection changed after 1973

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From a 1966 London Meeting to World Squash

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From a dice race to a classroom tool: how the Game of the Goose was adapted

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From a European body to a world federation: how backgammon organizes itself

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From a federation anniversary to World Chess Day

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From a FIDE Anniversary to a United Nations World Chess Day

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From a flu-week prototype to a Kickstarter record

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From a Jutland game night to the Star Fleet Universe

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From a Moscow classroom to the werewolf table: how Mafia spread and why villagers tend to win

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From a newspaper idea to the Champions League: how the European Cup began

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From a rotating presidency to a single chairman

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From a school prefect game to a fantasy quest

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From a single imported set to a salaried professional league

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From a Stylophone Maker to a Licensing Empire: The Ownership History of Top Trumps

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From Amsterdam to Copenhagen: how handball's world federation was rebuilt after the war

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From an amateur federation to basketball's sole world authority

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From Avalon and Werewolf to a Kickstarter record: how Secret Hitler was made

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From Bakery Toy to Century of Toys: The Making of Cootie

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From BattleDroids to BattleTech: the name changes and the awards

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From Boneshakers to the Grand Tours: How Racing Formats and Rules Shaped the Racing Bicycle

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From Chainmail and Braunstein to the first role-playing game

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From club rulebooks to one racing code: how sailing unified its rules

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From Confrontation to Underhive: how Necromunda was built and revived

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From failed app to record Kickstarter: the making of Kingdom Death: Monster

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From fair midway to city: how Monopoly Junior changed between 1990 and 2013

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From farm video game to cooperative table: Stardew Valley on the board

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From fifth place in 1932 to five straight Olympic team golds

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From film blocks to rotation: how the Lord of the Rings card game changed

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From Find-A-Word to Boggle: a rejected prototype becomes a word game

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From first set to closure: the release run of Pirates CSG

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From Golf to Cabo: editions, variants and folk ancestry

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From Hutchins to the Murrays: how Britain's Davis Cup fortunes fell and returned

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From Jutsu to Dō: How Kano Turned Jujutsu Into a Way

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From late-1970s sketches to a marble maze in a sphere

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From live escape room to card deck: how Unlock! was designed

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From Living Room Table to Arcade Floor and Championship: The Wider Life of Hungry Hungry Hippos

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From local tournaments to a world stage: the competitive Pokémon TCG circuit

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From Mafia to a moderated village: how Ultimate Werewolf works

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From Mind Game to four-colour tiles: how Tantrix took shape

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From moustache rules to four editions: how Age of Sigmar was rebuilt

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From one big counter to six editions: the making of Ogre

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From Pig Mania to Pass the Pigs: a game that changed hands four times

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From Playground Craze to Auction Record: The Market History of Pokémon Base Set

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From Radiation Treatment to the Ice in One Day

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From six aliens to hundreds: the publishing history and reach of Cosmic Encounter

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From the Venetian Ambassador to the Last Bank in Ely: The Long Life of Faro

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From Three European Members to Seven Disciplines: How World Gymnastics Is Built

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From Water Rugby to Managed Contact

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From Wild Trails in Telemark to the Slalom Rules Written at Mürren

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GeoGuessr grew from a two week side project into a global obsession, then into an esports controversy

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German Whist: A Two-Player Game With Many Names and a Second Half Played in the Open

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Hexagonal chess variants built rival federations and a stalemate rule that splits the point

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Hidden attack and defense cards in Unmatched

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Hidden ranks, a Spy and a neutral arbiter: how Game of the Generals took shape

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Hidden roles and shared victory in Shadow Hunters

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How 7 Wonders was redesigned into a duel for two players

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How a 1924 Olympic exclusion created field hockey's own governing body

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How a Babylonian tablet restored the rules of the Royal Game of Ur

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How a birthday party game traces to an 1899 catalog entry credited to Kate Hunt

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How a Canadian Eligibility Question Renamed America's Scrabble Championship

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How a Capped Dice Loop Turned Monopoly Go! Into a Mobile Revenue Leader

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How a Centennial Football Tournament Created CONMEBOL

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How a children's board game ended up in two separate lawsuits

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How a conspiracy novel became a card game about taking over the world

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How a crowdfunded board game and a painter's alternate 1920s grew into a series

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How a day and night clock drives a solo fantasy campaign

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How a failing Washington farm became The Farming Game

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How a film licence shaped the game's rise, decline and revival

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How a Finnish trademarked throwing game grew a world championship circuit

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How a flip cup round is played and won

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How a Golden Geek Sweep Led King of Tokyo Into New York

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How a licensed cast of villains became a long-running board game line

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How a Living Room Bluffing Game Became a 2004 Television Show

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How a Los Angeles dojo storm led Rickson Gracie to two fights with Nobuhiko Takada

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How a one-word clue drives Codenames

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How a Party Card Game Became an AI Research Benchmark

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How a party game at the beach became 30 Seconds

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How a pilot's view of Christchurch became Cathedral

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How a Roman Empire prototype became Dune's cult strategy classic

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How a round of Fingers works and where its house rules differ

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How a round of play alternates actions

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How a round of The Chameleon is won, lost and rescued

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How a solved game changed the advice for Guess Who?

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How a Three-Nation European Federation Became the World Body of Gymnastics

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How a Trump Card Became a Nation's Pastime: The Name and Status of Jass

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How a wargame's dark future became a publishing empire

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How Ali's Rope-a-Dope Beat an Unbeaten Foreman

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How alpine skiing joined a federation built for Nordic racing

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How an Alias turn is played and how the game grew into editions

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How an Eight-Category Scoring System and a Players Strike Spread Fantasy Baseball Nationwide

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How an Indoor Rink Set Hockey's First Team Limit

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How an old insult for an unmarried woman became a card game's name

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How an unpatentable poker variant found its patent in Aruba

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How an Unsold Arcade Cabinet Became Donkey Kong

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How Android: Netrunner's Fans Kept Its World Championship Running

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How Arimaa was built to resist computers, and how Sharp won the Challenge

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How Axis & Allies became the best-selling physical wargame

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How Battle Masters lets the cards decide who moves

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How Blood Bowl's tournament scene outgrew its publisher

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How Brass grew from a 2007 Lancashire game into a family of titles

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How bridge displaced whist in the card rooms of the 1890s

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How Carioca's Eight Rounds Escalate From Triplets to Straights

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How Cascadia's Two-Part Puzzle Won Over Judges and Reviewers

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How Chaturanga Split Into Chess, Shogi and Xiangqi

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How compulsory capture and the crowned man shape Russian draughts

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How compulsory capture shapes Turkish draughts

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How Conquian changed between Mexico and Texas

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How Crossfire changed its board across three eras

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How Cyberpunk Makes Combat Deadly and Technology Costly

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How Donald Knuth Proved Mastermind Always Falls in Five Guesses

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How Dress to Impress broke out of Roblox

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How Dungeon World turns dice results into story

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How Eclipse Phase rolls its dice and shares its rules

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How Eight Founding Nations Built World Aquatics

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How Elefun is scored: butterfly tokens and a long publishing lineage

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How Everdell grew beyond the base game

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How Exploding Kittens plays and how the line grew

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How fan demand kept Heroscape alive between Hasbro's exit and its 2024 return

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How Fans Kept Epic Alive After Games Workshop Walked Away

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How FIFA Was Founded, and Nearly Lost, in Its First Decades

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How Flesh and Blood builds its tournament ladder

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How four state-funded houses turned go rivalry into skill

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How Free Games to Field Hospitals Turned a Flop Into Germany's Favorite Board Game

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How Funkenschlag's Crayon Networks Became Power Grid's National Power Markets

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How Gleek balanced its books at 22 points

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How Hive moves, and why its opening rule changed

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How ITF Member Votes Are Weighted, Not Equal

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How Jim Thorpe lost his 1912 Olympic titles and won them back

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How Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy became the source of Terraforming Mars

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How King scores: six contracts played twice

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How long a game of Hi Ho! Cherry-O really lasts

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How Lotto War became Acquire, and how the game outlived its first publisher

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How Love Letter changed across its premium and second editions

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How Luna Rossa's Yacht Club Changed With Every America's Cup Era

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How Machi Koro grew from one box into a family of games

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How Mansions of Madness Traded Its Keeper for an App

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How many goals did Pele really score

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How MASH builds a rigged fortune from two wanted answers and one dreaded one

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How Mau-Mau changes from table to table

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How Ms. Monopoly was pitched and why critics objected

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How Mus is played almost entirely in words and secret signals

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How Netrunner survived two cancellations

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How Olympic Day Grew From a Single Anniversary Into a Worldwide Yearly Custom

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How Operation turned a surgery joke into a game of cash and nerve

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How Pente tried to tame the first move

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How Phase 10 sold its way into the National Toy Hall of Fame

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How Pit turns a shouting match into a corner on the market

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How plot cards shape a round of A Game of Thrones

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How Poohsticks went from a story to a world championship

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How rugby league rebuilt its international board after the Super League war

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How Russian bank is set up and why the Stop call matters

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How Saboteur turns hidden roles into a tunnel race

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How San Guo Sha departs from BANG!

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How solitaire moved from fortune-telling cards to the Windows desktop

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How Spiel des Jahres describes the cards, factions and conflict of Dune: Imperium

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How Spin the Bottle Got Its Reputation for Sex and Teenage Coming-of-Age

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How stacking changes the score in Upwords

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How Stephen Baker Turned Two Rival Toy Companies Into Design Partners

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How the 24 card game is played and stretched

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How the Ashes name faded after 1882 and came back in 1903

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How the Asian Football Confederation grew from a Helsinki idea into a continental body

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How the Azul series stretched one tile-drafting idea

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How the Christmas draw is run, from singing schoolchildren to the wire frames

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How the Clock and climax cards decide a Weiß Schwarz game

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How the combat dial drives HeroClix, and how the game survived 2008

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How the Congress and its two membership tiers govern wrestling

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How the ear reddening game began

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How the Explosion Rule Reshaped Chess Strategy and Won Grandmaster Attention

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How the Harry Potter card game grew through four expansions

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How the ITTF Split Its Sport Governance From Its Business

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How the IWF Nearly Lost Its Olympic Status

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How the postal framing organizes Post office and its variants

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How The Resistance broke from Mafia and Werewolf

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How the scoring of 500 turns every bid into a priced promise

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How the sinking island drives Forbidden Island

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How the Supernatural Role Playing Game came to be, and how it was received

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How the umpire's calls drive Kriegspiel and its variants

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How Three Editions Reshaped Space Hulk's Asymmetric Design

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How trade and calamity cards drive Civilization

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How Trouble Passed From Two Toy Makers to Hasbro

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How university clubs turned tiddlywinks into an organized sport

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How volunteers kept the Star Wars Customizable Card Game alive after Decipher lost its license

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How Wavelength scores a shared sense of meaning

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How Whamageddon Grew From a 2009 Forum Thread to a Stadium Apology

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Hunters and aliens: how Space Crusade divides its players

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In Wizard, a correct bid scores more than any trick won

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Indirect rivalry in Lost Cities, from shared discards to a sixth expedition

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Jotto: how one number carries the whole game

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Kasparov's chess crown became a launching pad for Kremlin opposition

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KeyForge: a card game built on decks that cannot be changed

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Kicking down the door: how Munchkin turns greed into the game

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Kingsbury and Alexandre Bilodeau: a rivalry between Canadian teammates

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Labyrinth: a pun on moving the maze, and the games it started

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Ladder Toss: Scoring Variations, House Rules and a Patented Origin

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Life Cloth, LRIGs and SIGNI: how a WIXOSS match is built

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Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei: Badminton's Defining Rivalry

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Loot cards, a record prize and the end of the circuit

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Maradona's Napoli years

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Martina Navratilova's 1975 defection from Czechoslovakia

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More than five years at number one: how Gloomhaven swept the Golden Geek awards

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Nightmare on videotape: the rise and decline of the Atmosfear series

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Ninety-two solutions to the eight queens puzzle collapse to twelve

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Nominated for design honors and doubted as a game in the same year

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Odds and Evens: From Roman Nuts and Money to Roulette Bets

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Olympic Day: a fixed date for a younger observance

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One action per turn: how Splendor turns gems into an engine

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One Arcade Game, Many Versions: How Wonder Boy Split Across Hardware and a Trademark

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One counter for life and cost: how Battle Spirits plays

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One fellowship at the table: how Lord of the Rings turns a quest into a shared game

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One German crew, then two: how FISA settled the East German question

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One tabletop game, three patents and four names

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Photo cards, caption cards and The Jerry in What Do You Meme?

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Poker's Bid to Be Recognized as a Mind Sport

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Pots, a widow hand and a race to empty your hand: how a round of Rummoli works

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Primero's Royal Following and Its Echo in Poker

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Puerto Rico: acclaim and the debate over its colonial theme

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Pushing the opponent into the manhole: how Urban Champion works

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Quarto Has Been Solved: Perfect Play Ends in a Draw

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Quoridor's walls trace back to a 1975 game called Blockade

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Racing to fifteen points by facing Problems in the My Little Pony card game

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Rejected for Her Height, Deng Yaping Became a Champion, Then a Cambridge Doctor

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Rook, the card game for people who would not play cards

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Root's asymmetric factions and how they were received

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Running a secret society in Illuminati: New World Order

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Savings, loans and the monthly squeeze in Pay Day

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Scattergories, from a photocopied word game to a top ten toy and a game show

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Second-hand games and the making of Oath campaign

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Secret orders and the influence tracks in Westeros

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Seve Ballesteros and the Ryder Cup: Building a European Team

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Seven Masks, One Name Each: Naomi Osaka's 2020 Protest

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Seventy-six lines and a solved cube

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Several authors and engine bases: how GNU Chess was built up

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Shuffle chess before Fischer: the long road to Chess960

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Six gates and the trance mechanic in Luck & Logic

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Six named tops, a luck-heavy arena and a Star Wars rename

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Skating to open ice: how Gretzky played without the puck

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Special cards and slap rules in Taco Cat Goat Cheese Pizza

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Spirit Island, a cooperative game built against the colonizer story

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Steffi Graf's 1988 Golden Slam

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Story over rules: how critics received Werewolf

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Surviving the count: how Ninety-nine is played and varied

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The 1888 Forfeit Rhyme Behind Hot Potato

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The 1984 Ban That Cost Skiing's Slalom King an Olympics

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The 1985 final and the making of an image: Steve Davis beyond the titles

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The 2001 Verification Scandal That Suspended Paralympic Intellectual Disability Sport

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The 2007 sale that brought Apples to Apples into the Mattel catalog

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The 2012 Arrest That Interrupted a Record-Setting Career

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The American Road Game Behind Mille Bornes

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The Backlash Behind Ninja Gaiden 3's Redesign

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The Backlash to Red Grange Turning Professional

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The black ring and the licensing trail of Pretty Pretty Princess

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The Caitlin Clark Effect: Attendance and Viewership Records

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The card-driven design behind Twilight Struggle's long run at the top

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The challenge nobody could beat, and the computer that finally solved it

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The Decade RoboRally Spent Unwanted Before Its 1994 Release

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The Desert Storm Innings at Sharjah

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The dice puzzle that took thirteen years to reach five players

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The Dice Ranking That Decides Who Wins Bo Bing's Mooncakes

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The Disputed 2002 Ban That Followed Martin Johnson's Sin Bin

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The Dodecahedron Behind Hunt the Wumpus

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The Doubleday Myth and Baseball's Real Origin

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The fair play behind Yamashita's 1984 gold

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The finite projective plane inside a Dobble deck

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The five-design Persian pack behind As-Nas

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The Great Dalmuti Turned an Old Climbing Game Into a Mensa Award Winner

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The Halfback No Club Would Sign

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The Haunt That Turns One Player Into the Enemy

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The Hotel Meeting That Gave Swimming Its First World Governing Body

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The Kickstarter Campaign That Built the Zombicide Franchise

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The ladder of bids in Nap: from Napoleon to Wellington and Blücher

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The Language Debate That Named Skiing's Governing Body

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The lawsuit over the talking tower

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The Long Afterlife of a Kennerspiel Winner

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The long count that decided Jack Dempsey's last title fight

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The long jump story Jesse Owens later corrected

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The Long Road Back: Wilkinson's Second Career in France

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The mathematics hiding in the Set deck

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The Mechanics Clause That Split British Amateur Athletics

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The Melbourne Defection That Made Pocket Hercules a Turk

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