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Sounds. I spent last weekend not reading a book.

It's the same book I've not been reading for over a year now,

but whenever I'm on a train journey, I pack the book into my bag,

where it stays because I've also got my phone,

which has this game where I need to move different coloured blocks around a grid to get them out within a time limit.

And somehow, given the choice between book or game, I choose game.

I have given hours, possibly days of my life, to this game, and somehow I can't help but feel that I've chosen the fast food option over the wholesomely ad-free and intellectually satisfying option of the book.

But the game tells me I'm awesome every time I complete a level, and it turns out I am shallow enough to crave that.

I'm Marnie Chesterton from the BBC World Service. This is Unexpected Elements.

Unexpected Elements is a team effort and joining me at the controls today are some leaderboard level players from the world of science journalism.

Say hello, Kai Kip Schmidt in Washington, D.C.

Hello, Mani, good morning.

And Ready Player 2, roving reporter in South Africa, we have Leonie Jubair.

Hello. Hello, Saubona and Molwani. Right. So having just confessed that I have a little game that steals my life,

please tell me that one of you two does the same. Do you remember Snake? Yes. I don't think I've

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