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In just a few days, it will be Christmas. And in houses around the world, there will be thousands

upon thousands of long squat boxes covered in wrapping paper.

Inside will be little plastic figurines,

trains, top hats, empty octagons.

There'll be cards, spinner, tokens, putty, pencils, and dice.

There will be play money.

There will be scorecards.

For this, my friends, is the season of the board game. Board games have always fascinated me. I used

to play double board risk as a kid with 10 players and the games would take minimum 12 hours.

Once one took 16 hours.

My friend Terry and I developed our own brand of monopoly

where we fixed all the problems with the Parker Brothers version,

including introducing the use of derivatives.

The philosopher CT-N says that games are an art form

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