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You can keep your Agricolas and your Puerto Ricos with their endless optimization strategies and brainburn. Those are too much like work, and not enough about "game". Me, I want to play a game that is fun. A game that I will enjoy. Not a game that takes minutes-hours just to recover from. I play for the fun and the sheer joy of it; it is not about who is better at game X for me. Presented below are some games that bring joy to me regardless of their "place" in the rankings.

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26. Board Game: Loopin' Louie [Average Rating:7.04 Overall Rank:301]
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This game often comes out to end an evening of gaming, loads of fun!
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Impossible to play without laughing.

Unless you've had a triple sense-of-humour bypass operation...
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Another game that I would've definitely added as well, but cut myself off after adding a couple. Such a fun fun game, and addictive too!
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I work at an Ivy League school. You'd be amazed at how many people have had those.
 
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27. Board Game: Can't Stop [Average Rating:6.86 Overall Rank:390]
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& don't forget this, what a blast to play!
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I meant to add this one. It was one of the first games I had thought of when the idea for this list came up. Somehow, though, in compiling the entries Can't Stop got lost in the shuffle.

A great press-your-luck game in which you can learn quite a bit about people's personalities even as you have a good time. A real blast to play.
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The ultimate filler game, which allows you to build and build and then the excitement (or disappointment) of one roll that lets you win a column or lose all of your progress.
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Trashtalking in this game can almost be considered a form of art.

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This is actually a LOT of fun.

For all ages.

Seriously.
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Great entry! A game untouchable by downtime boredom.

note to self: Never let granny, a.k.a. the grand dame of rolling away just one more time go to Vegas.
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28. Board Game: PitchCar [Average Rating:7.24 Overall Rank:179]
Martin Ralya
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This is one of the most purely fun games I've ever played. Get it out, and everyone turns into an eight year-old.

My highly scientific research to date suggests that it's almost impossible to dislike this game.
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Must. Get. This.
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For your research:

the way this game can turn into Not-Fun is if the seams cause the cars to fly off the tracks randomly about half the time you flick them, so that you're reduced to simply moving your car about 8 inches each turn, in overexaggerated fear of your car jumping off the track.

IF this game allowed for regular movement of over 3 feet, I'd give it a wholehearted approval for this list.
But it is highly dependent on the set up of the track, and will likely require shims to be placed under each track piece to reduce the # of cars popping off the track.
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I've et one person wo disliked the game. She wears fake nails,and is 11yo... and a klutz.
 
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For your research:

the way this game can turn into Not-Fun is if the seams cause the cars to fly off the tracks randomly about half the time you flick them, so that you're reduced to simply moving your car about 8 inches each turn, in overexaggerated fear of your car jumping off the track.

IF this game allowed for regular movement of over 3 feet, I'd give it a wholehearted approval for this list.
But it is highly dependent on the set up of the track, and will likely require shims to be placed under each track piece to reduce the # of cars popping off the track.


The best way to handle this problem (and it can be a fun-killer) is to place business cards beneath the problem joints (run your finger over them while setting up the track, you can feel discrepancies). Business cards make the perfect equalizer for minor hiccups in the track. It is not perfect (it is a wood product...) but it really reduces the amount of wayward and maddening flicks.
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IF this game allowed for regular movement of over 3 feet, I'd give it a wholehearted approval for this list.
But it is highly dependent on the set up of the track, and will likely require shims to be placed under each track piece to reduce the # of cars popping off the track.


That does sound un-fun, but we've never had this problem. We just add the leaf to our dining table, set up the track more of less randomly and go. I've never had this seam issue pop up.
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Ok, finally a seriously fun game!!!
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29. Board Game: Battleball [Average Rating:6.34 Overall Rank:1192]
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I got this for $4 on clearance, mainly for the figures -- it's got great components. A little while back, a friend from out of town was here, and he helped me clear some games off my "owned, never played" list, including this one.

It turned out to be wild, random and way more fun than we expected. The combination of fairly clever rules, the wild swings that the dice bring to the game, excellent pieces and a silly theme are a surprisingly good mix -- and just plain fun is the perfect description.
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There are some great looking variant rules for this too (that I really need to try).
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30. Board Game: Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot [Average Rating:5.69 Overall Rank:5512]
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Random. Silly. Cartoonishly violent. Very fun.
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Right on! This game is awesome...
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Even more awesome when using all the bunnies from the expansions and scoring 3 points per bunnie nailed and adding the carrot numbers cumulatively from low to high, then the highest total wins. KB as a combat game for victory points? Journey to Jupiter is nearly halfway through publishing and Ultimate Odyssey has been announced... more bunnie to whack! ninja
 
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ugh. Make it stop!
 
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No no no no no....Sorry - LOVE this list. Hated this game. This game takes FOREVER to end - if it was a 30 minute game it might be fun. As it is it takes recovery time to get over the grind of the game and the underwhelming surprise ending.
 
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31. Board Game: Starfight [Average Rating:6.81 Overall Rank:4114]
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Fun and cheap. For a few bucks for the pdf and a fistful of dice you'll have an evening of Star Trek-ian entertainment. This is a light shoot'em up space battle, but you'll need to use some tactics to win. Find Star Trek micro machines on ebay to add to the fun.
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32. Board Game: Wings of War: The Dawn of World War II [Average Rating:6.95 Overall Rank:634]
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We are so hopelessly inept at maneuvering on the small table we play on and rarely if ever manage to bomb or strafe our targets that this game always ends with one or both of us flying off the board.

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33. Board Game: Ice Flow [Average Rating:6.57 Overall Rank:984]
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Plays quick and a good time is had by all. Games are always close.
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Brent Case wrote:
I SO want to get this game.


Me too.
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34. Board Game: Fireball Island [Average Rating:6.41 Overall Rank:1618]
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greatest game ever. marbles dice...3d board!
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A really great imaginative race game! I love the bridgse you have to cross!

Amazing fun for kids of all ages.
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Loved that game. I wish I still had my copy.
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This is one I wanted as a kid. Never got it soblue
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35. Board Game: Drakon (third edition) [Average Rating:6.62 Overall Rank:751]
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This is a fun/completely cutthroat game. My mother in law has record wins over us! Did you read that right? My "mother in law", playing a dwarf running through a dungeon!

I'm really looking fwd to playing this with a group of couples for team play. I think that would really carry this game!
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It IS fun, if you have players who will play cutthroat. If you've got a bunch of "nice" players it becomes pretty boring.
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36. Board Game: Monkey Auto Races [Average Rating:6.24 Overall Rank:5443]
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Gosh, the obvious #1 game fun game of all time!
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37. Board Game: Dancing Eggs [Average Rating:6.61 Overall Rank:962]
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This plus a four year old that's prone to giggling fits is the definition of fun. It also works without the four year old.
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38. Board Game: You Must Be an Idiot! [Average Rating:5.96 Overall Rank:3922]
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I have to thank Joe Gola (user: Gola) and Gil Hova (user: Ingridient X) for introducing to this fun game of trivia, bluff, and deduction. Just remember that the fourth President of the United States was ... Dolly Madison.

A must have party-game for Geeks of all shapes and stripes. It is a joy and a delight.
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39. Board Game: The Big Idea [Average Rating:6.40 Overall Rank:1390]
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I love making up silly fake commercials. If the same is true for you, you must own this game.
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40. Board Game: Wits & Wagers [Average Rating:7.08 Overall Rank:254]
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The betting aspect of this game makes it 100 times more fun than every other trivia game I've played.
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41. Board Game: Jungle Speed [Average Rating:6.76 Overall Rank:536]
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This one is already pure fun when playing it "as is".
But it's so suspiciously easy to turn it into a drinking game!
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Or with the expansion!
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Another one I have NEVER been interested in. But, joined a group of gamers at Gen Con this year and they brought this one out. It's a lot of fun, and now another addition to my wish list.
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When told how to play, the first rule was remove rings and watches.
After playing,and winning ,this is the next game I will buy.
 
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42. Board Game: RoboRally [Average Rating:7.24 Overall Rank:162]
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Kind of strange RoboRally didn't pop up earlier in this list, so 'll just squeeze it in there.
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Try using 4 boards and the flags to mark an oval course and complete a few laps!
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This would have been my addition. If people aren't too caught up in winning, the chaos just becomes hilarious. Everytime I play this with my brothers, the phrases "uh oh" and "oh no" never get old. Too much opportunity for hyperbolous misfortune to not be fun, really.
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thumbsupOne of my favorites! Watch your opponents do the "robot dance" as they try and work out their programmed moves.
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Try using 4 boards and the flags to mark an oval course and complete a few laps!


Big board? No! Play 4+ players on ONE board with the flags in a diagonally criss-crossing pattern so you're CONSTANTLY running into each other and causing robots to go off the board! (Play without limited "lives" or else players are gonna die off real quick.)
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no surpirise at all.

Many do not enjoy it.

It's long, causes brain burn, has profound snowball effect, has excessive randomness, and can be incredible frustrating.


Snowball Effect
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I do not like this game at all.
The brainburn was just brainburn, the randomness wasn't fun but just random, and the game becomes tedious after but a few turns. I sold it.
 
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43. Board Game: Hands Down [Average Rating:4.64 Overall Rank:7592]
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ALWAYS fun. There's nothing like the joy of a successful fake-slap.
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Oh, man. My brother and I used to play this and laugh and laugh. What a crazy game.
 
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44. Board Game: Through the Desert [Average Rating:7.15 Overall Rank:198]
Michael B.
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The only way to play this is to dump all the camels into a bag and draw them out on your turn blind. No analysis paralysis, just fun!
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Interesting variant. How do you know when the game is over?
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45. Board Game: Liar's Dice [Average Rating:6.98 Overall Rank:298]
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We play this regularely as an opener or closer on game nights.
It's always great fun to see an outragous bid go through, or a too safe one going around the table and biting the first player in the ###.gulp
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I'd forgotten about this game, but it's 20 minutes of bluffing and pure zaniness. Last game I played we had 2 pretty much impossible bids (like 90% of the dice with more than 10 dice) that both were challenged and the bidder won. It's moments like that, where even though you lost the challenge, that the zaniness of the moment makes it where you can't help to laugh.

I just used Zaniness twice in that paragraph. I wonder if I'll be sent the English Class Hell for that.
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46. Board Game: Hang in There! [Average Rating:5.85 Overall Rank:4858]
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I just got this game from a thrift store. I have to say for a 3 minute game, it's just plain fun. As a dexterity game, it can be pretty tough, especially when your opponent keeps knocking your animals off the trees.
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47. Board Game: Power Grid [Average Rating:8.09 Overall Rank:5]
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Yes that's right Power Grid. How could a game this with this much math make it on the list? When playing with my family the deals and the curses fly. "Ya know I think I will buy some extra oil barrels so you can afford to power your plant." "We should really block off my Dad he is getting pretty close to winning." "HOAR-DER!" Always a lot of fun devil
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This geeklist has officially jumped the shark.
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Watching less skilfull players bid ridiculous amounts for the "50 Fusion" plant can be fun.
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reapersaurus wrote:
This geeklist has officially jumped the shark.
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Get with the times...


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Delta2468 wrote:
Yes that's right Power Grid. How could a game this with this much math make it on the list? When playing with my family the deals and the curses fly. "Ya know I think I will buy some extra oil barrels so you can afford to power your plant." "We should really block off my Dad he is getting pretty close to winning." "HOAR-DER!" Always a lot of fun devil


Every time I start to think about seeking out Power Grid, someone posts something like this, and I again return to no interest. in PG, nor gaming with the poster.
 
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aramis wrote:
Delta2468 wrote:
Yes that's right Power Grid. How could a game this with this much math make it on the list? When playing with my family the deals and the curses fly. "Ya know I think I will buy some extra oil barrels so you can afford to power your plant." "We should really block off my Dad he is getting pretty close to winning." "HOAR-DER!" Always a lot of fun devil


Every time I start to think about seeking out Power Grid, someone posts something like this, and I again return to no interest. in PG, nor gaming with the poster.


I notice that your only comments on this list have been ones disagreeing with people's opinions on fun games in a semi-rude manner, and in this case, also with a mild verbal backhand at the poster. Maybe you should let people have their own opinions on what games they enjoy?
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48. Board Game: Monopoly Express [Average Rating:5.75 Overall Rank:3807]
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This game, like Can't Stop, may be 95% luck, but it's very fun, because sometimes it comes down to one big roll.
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49. Board Game: Chopstick Dexterity MegaChallenge 3000 [Average Rating:6.77 Overall Rank:2021]
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I am not sure how hard this is to get-- but this was the most wild, laugh-per-minute, mega-fun 3000 game I've ever played.
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Not hard to get over the Net!

http://www.pair-of-dice.com/games/chopstick.html

or funagaingames. Fairplaygames used to sell it - don't know why it isn't on their list at the moment.

By the way, I'm ordering their new edition. The colors look much brighter and easy to distinguish from one another!
 
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50. Board Game: Survive: Escape from Atlantis! [Average Rating:7.36 Overall Rank:155]
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Nothing spells fun better than a shark eating 3 of your opponent's people.
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It took 51 entries before someone put this game on this list!? This is a top 10 fun game, easy! Tip...play with more people. Takes from 2 to 4, and the scale is with 2, you can easily get all your people to safety. 4 players means your lucky to get anyone safe.
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My first boardgame.
Also, is this still in print? I want to buy a new(er) box.
 
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The pictured version is WAY out of print. Keep an eye out on Ebay, and one of these days a really nice copy might come up for sale- but expect to pay "the price".
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I love this game....nuff said.
 
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They sell for about $40 on eBay, plus about $10-12 shipping and I'm always on the lookout for a copy. Played mine into oblivion as a kid. This is one that needs a reprint
 
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OK - that's it - your going into my GeekBuddy list. Kicking and screaming, if need be.

I don't always agree with what you say, but in this all-important category of games, you have nailed my first, second, third, fourth choices and more. thumbsup
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Great List.

For me those fun games are essentially light-mid Euro's that light a spark in me after reading the rules.

Typically they are easy to learn and play in 40-80 minutes. Most importantly their rules are not hard to remember from one play to the next - important when you are the rules guy in your group and have over 300 games to consider bringing to club each week.

For me the following titles instantly spring to mind -

Kingsburg
Stone Age
Yspahan
Alhambra
The Hanging Gardens
Saint Petersburg
Race for the Galaxy
Last Night on Earth

Manilla is almost there but a few ambiguous rules don't help it stick in the memory for that next play.

Titles I hope to add to my collection soon -

Galaxy Trucker
The Downfall of Pompeii
Crokinole
Tumblin' Dice
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Another game in this category would be 'I'm the Boss'. We cannot play a game of that without someone laughing out loud at least once or twice.


I played my first game of this the other night. When someone pulled it out, I was a bit hesitant -- I'm not normally a fan of financial-themed games. But we had a blast playing it, and you're right -- lots of laughing out loud!
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I wanted to add Yspahan, but I cannot see myself justifying that. Yes, it is fun. But, I am not sure that it has enough of that element for me to place it on this list. And I have played it a lot.
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Fun list, i got to tell. So much games here I actually want and now start looking for! Thanks...
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