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| Tag |
Meaning
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| 1-player |
works with 1 players
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| 2-player |
works with 2 players
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| 3-player |
works with 3 players
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| 4-player |
works with 4 players
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| 5-player |
works with 5 players
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| 6-player |
works with 6 players
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| 7-player |
works with 7 players
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| 8-player |
works with 8 players
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| 18xx |
(?)game has 1800's theme or in 1800's series
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| 2009 |
(?) game was issued in 2009
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| 30min |
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| abstract |
abstract game
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| adventure |
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| ameritrash |
Ameritrash
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| ancients |
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| asl |
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| auction |
game contains an auction mechanism
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| badglare |
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| base |
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| beautiful |
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| board |
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| box |
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| box_scan |
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| boxback |
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| boxed_game |
was commercially sold at some time as a boxed game. May be ip(in print) or oop (out of print)
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| boxfront |
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| boxside |
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| bruno_faidutti_ideal_game_library |
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| bsw |
game can be played online through BrettSpielWelt
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| bakelite |
game has pleasing clacky pieces made from Bakelite
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| cantera |
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| carcassonne |
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| card |
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| card_back |
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| card_front |
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| card_scan |
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| cardgame |
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| cards |
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| catan |
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| ccg |
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| classic |
is considered a classic game
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| close-up |
(?) tag, probably on an image, which is a close-up shot of board or component
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| coffindodger |
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| combinatorial |
combinatorial game
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| comparison |
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| component_picture |
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| component_scan |
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| components |
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| contest |
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| convention |
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| cooperative |
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| cover_picture |
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| creative |
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| cthulhu |
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| customized |
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| cute |
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| deduction |
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| designer |
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| dexterity |
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| dice |
(?) game has dice
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| dicetower |
(?) game uses a dicetower
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| diy |
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| dsp-winner |
Won the Deutscher Spiele Preis
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| dutch |
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| economic |
contains an element of economic simulation
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| essen |
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| essen-2009 |
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| essen-2010 |
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| essen-2011 |
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| estonian_people |
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| excellent |
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| expansion |
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| eyeglasses |
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| family |
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| fantasy |
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| favorite |
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| favorites |
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| filler |
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| fimo |
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| flgs |
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| food |
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| free |
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| free-pnp |
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| front_cover |
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| game |
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| gameplay |
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| gateway |
particularly suitable as an introduction for non-gamers
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| german |
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| girl |
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| girls |
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| glasses |
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| gmt |
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| gotw |
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| gparchive |
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| guys |
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| horror |
horror theme
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| humor |
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| icehouse |
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| identify |
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| image:boxfront |
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| image:components |
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| image:customised |
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| image:painted_miniatures |
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| image:play |
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| interested |
user is interested in the game, may or may not own game
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| interesting |
game is not boring, it is interesting
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| investigate |
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| iron_reviewer |
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| keller |
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| kids |
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| knizia |
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| language-level:X |
how language dependent are the game components (X replaced by system ratings)
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| language-level:0 |
system rating 0 for language level
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| language-level:1 |
system rating 0 for language level
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| lego |
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| light |
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| long |
takes a long time to play (more than say 2 hours)
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| macro |
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| magazine |
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| magazine-game |
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| map |
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| maybe |
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| medieval |
medieval theme
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| miniature |
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| miniatures |
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| minis |
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| miscellaneous |
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| money |
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| napoleonic |
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| naval |
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| needs_pictures |
game which needs more pictures to document it
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| no_boxed_game |
has never been commercially sold as a boxed game. May be web published pnp
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| no_caption |
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| no_draw_or_tie |
game must have a winner. No draws or ties possible.
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| online |
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| outdoors |
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| own |
user presently has this game
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| p500 |
is on the p500 list (a list of popular wargames?)
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| painted |
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| party |
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| pdf |
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| people |
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| photos |
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| play |
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| played |
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| pnp |
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| podcast |
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| polish |
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| portuguese |
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| prev_owned |
user previously owned this game but does not any more
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| print |
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| project_gipf |
part of Project GIPF
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| racing |
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| radar |
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| recap |
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| recommendations |
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| representative_image |
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| resource-management |
contains resource management mechanisms
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| review |
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| rpg |
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| rules |
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| russian |
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| s&t |
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| s_and_t |
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| sci-fi |
game has science fiction theme
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| sdj |
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| sdj-winner |
Won the Spiel des Jahres
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| sf |
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| smile |
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| solitaire |
can be played by 1 player (occasionally used as a criticism of multiplayer games with little interaction)
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| solitaire |
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| solo |
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| spanish |
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| spanish-rules |
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| spellenarsenaal_kris |
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| sports |
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| stats |
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| storage |
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| strategic |
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| strategy |
contains strategy (as opposed to tictacs)
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| tactical |
contains tactics (as opposed to strategy)
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| thrift |
almost all are GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: (xx)
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| tile-placement |
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| traded-sold |
you previously owned this game but do not any more because you sold it or traded it
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| trading |
contains an element of trading between players
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| trains |
game has a train theme
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| traitor |
uses the mechanic of a mostly cooperative game on which one player is secretly working to prevent group victory
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| uncaptioned |
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| unplayed |
user has not played this game, but is interested in game
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| variant |
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| want |
user wants this game, probably on users wantlist
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| war |
war theme
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| wargame |
game is a type of wargame
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| wargames |
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| watch |
the user is keeping an eye on this game, e.g. to read reviews before buying
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| watching |
on user's watch list
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| weekly_thrift |
almost all are GeekList: Your Thrift Store/Bargain Finds: (xx)
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| wishlist |
on user's wish list, user would like to own this game
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| ww1 |
game has world war 1 theme
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| ww2 |
game has world war 2 theme
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| yes |
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| z-tag-ok |
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