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(card games, dice games) A single point or spot on a playing card or die normally indicating it as the prime, i.e. first and forefront. (in playing cards, of that series)
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(uncountable) A variant of backgammon.
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A certain game of dominos.
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Alternative form of baccarat (“French card game”) [(card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.]
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A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.
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A dice game similar to Yahtzee
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(backgammon) After being doubled, to immediately double the stakes again, a move that keeps the doubling cube on one’s own side of the board.
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(card games) A card game played using a deck of 1990 MLB all-star playing cards.
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In the game of craps, a prominent space on the table where one can place a bet that the shooter will roll a six before a seven.
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(Britain, games) A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to catch the other players.
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(uncountable) The game of blind man's buff
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(Belize) A form of lottery played in Belize.
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Similar to the card game of bridge.
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(slang) An ace (the playing card).
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The old game of nineholes.
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(uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
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A board game where players have to place tiles and score features.
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(collectible card games) A weak defender used to block an attack it will not survive from a stronger attacker which it will not destroy.
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An old-fashioned parlour game describing the meeting of a lady and gentleman and the ensuing events, each player in turn writing a part of the story, not knowing what the others have written.
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(games) A simple children's game using a rhyme (the counting rhyme) to select a person from a group, more or less at random. The selected person then takes a particular role in another game that follows.
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A gambling game in which players throw coins at the ceiling of a room, aiming to have them fall as near as possible to a certain crack in the floor.
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(uncountable) A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue.
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A variety of the dice game craps, differing in placing the shooter at a disadvantage and in allowing players to bet on rolling a 2, 3, 11 or 12 before a 7 is thrown.
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(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.
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(dice games) A die with twenty sides.
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(dice games) A die with four sides.
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(dominoes) A tile divided into two squares, each having 0 to 6 (or sometimes more) dots or pips (as in dice), used in the game of dominoes.
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A set of domino tiles with 28 tiles.
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(uncountable, obsolete) A game somewhat like backgammon.
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A gambling game played using this top.
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(Jamaica, games) A drawn game of noughts and crosses (in Jamaica tii-taa-tuo).
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A game of chance, in which a ball falls into one of several ditches marked "E" or "O".
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where eight actions must be performed.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where eleven actions must be performed.
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A Chinese gambling game in which coins or other small objects are placed upon a table, usually under a cup, and the players bet as to what remainder will be left when the sum of the counters is divided by four.
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(uncountable) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards in pairs or sets of four (depending on the variation), by asking the other players for cards of a particular rank.
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(historical) A board game, popular in the 16th century, in which players moved pieces around a track based on dice rolls.
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(rare) Backgammon (the game itself).
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(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.
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the black and white stones used in the game of Go
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(board games) Alternative form of gobang (“board for playing go”) [(uncountable) Gomoku, a Japanese strategy game.]
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(games) A strategic board game played with counters on a board of 16×16 squares.
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(games) A Native American guessing game, in which marked "bones" are concealed in the hands of one team while another team guesses their location.
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(backgammon) To take up, or replace by a piece belonging to the opposing player; said of a single unprotected piece on a point.
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(Australia, New Zealand) A gambling game similar to bingo.
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Alternative form of jueteng [(Philippines) An illegal numbers game similar to lotto; illegal lottery using a tambiolo]
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Alternative form of jueteng [(Philippines) An illegal numbers game similar to lotto; illegal lottery using a tambiolo]
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(uncountable, obsolete) A board game of the tables family.
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(informal) A die (object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance).
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A six-pointed playing piece in the game of jacks; a jackstone.
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(games) A children's game involving picking up objects; knucklebones; jackstones.
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A jack; one of the playing pieces in the game of jacks.
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(games) The game of rock paper scissors.
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(printing slang) A dice game played with em quads.
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A metal counter used in card games.
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(combinatorics) A construction that defines an equivalence relation on the set of skew standard Young tableaux.
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(combinatorics) Of tableaux: able to be transformed into each other by a sequence of jeu de taquin slides.
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(combinatorics) A transformation that moves around the numbers in a tableau according to the jeu de taquin construction, used to determine whether tableaux are equivalent.
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(Philippines) An illegal numbers game similar to lotto; illegal lottery using a tambiolo
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A gambling game, a variety of the game of lotto, played with balls or knobs, numbered, and cards also numbered.
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A game or exercise in which the player is presented with a set of objects and challenged to remember them after looking away.
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(uncountable) A children's game in which one player stands on top of a hill or other location atop an incline, and attempts to repel other players whose goal is to capture his position.
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(card games, archaic) The game of lanterloo.
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(whist) The version of the game played until one team makes 10 points, as opposed to the short game, which is played to 5 points.
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A round table designed for playing the card game lanterloo.
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A game in which prizes are covered up and mixed together in a container, so that contestants can dip their hand into the container and randomly draw out a prize.
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A children's board game in which tokens are moved round a board.
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An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables.
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Alternative spelling of mahjong [A game (originally Chinese) for four players, using a collection of tiles divided into five or six suits.]
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(games) A popular card game for two or more players, similar to crazy eights.
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A game played with numbered dominoes, in which each player attempts to to play all of his/her dominoes onto one or more chains, or "trains", emanating from a central hub or "station".
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(card games) A version of baccarat played at smaller tables for lower stakes, and having some differences in the rules.
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(bridge) Either of the suits of diamonds (♦) and clubs (♣), which rank lower than the major suits (spades and hearts).
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An informal dance competition, where contestants in one quarter of the floor are eliminated by a randomly chosen card representing the corner.
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(games) A children's game in which players circle a group of chairs. There is one chair fewer than the number of players. When someone who is not watching stops playing music, everybody sits down, and the player left without a chair is eliminated.
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A fast-paced card game played with multiple decks.
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Alternative form of netdeck [(slang, collectible card games, derogatory) A decklist copied from the Internet.]
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An ancient strategic board game for two players, each having nine pieces, and in which forming a row of three of one's own pieces earns the removal of one of the other player's pieces.
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(obsolete, uncountable) An old card game.
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(obsolete, uncountable) A game of dice, properly called novem quinque, the two principal throws being nine and five.
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A board game played with four pawns on each side of a 4×4 board.
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A call in any childrens game, such as jacks, where one action must be performed.
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(uncountable) The game of Chinese whispers.
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(games) A board game of the mancala family which originated in Africa, and is reputedly the oldest game in the world.
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the game noughts and crosses
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An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.
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Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
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Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
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Alternative form of pachisi [An ancient Indian board game in which players, throwing dice, shells, etc. to determine the distance of each move, attempt to be the first to take all of their counters around the board.]
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Alternative form of patolli (“ancient board game”) [A board game, similar to pachisi, played by the Aztecs.]
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(US, Indiana, gambling) An illicit numbers game or lottery, with the numbers marked on small balls or "peas".
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Alternative form of pinochle [(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.]
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(card games, uncountable) The card game piquet.
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Alternative form of piquet (“card game”) [(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.]
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(card games) A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.
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Alternative form of pinochle [(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.]
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A traditional Mexican board game.
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A pricing game played on the game show The Price Is Right
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(backgammon) Each of the twelve triangular positions in either table of a backgammon board, on which the stones are played.
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(obsolete) A game of chance using four seashells (each called a prop).
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(card games) A Spanish trick-taking card game from the 1700s played with a 40-card deck.
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(card games) In piquet, a bonus of 60 points awarded to a player who scores 30 points during the declaration phase, prior to the opponent scoring anything.
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(games) A popular children's game using three hand signs representing rock, paper and scissors, frequently used as a tiebreaker.
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The game of rubber bridge.
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(obsolete) A game similar to whist and its predecessor.
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(UK, obsolete) A large poker.
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(uncountable) A children's game in which the players hide together, lying side by side.
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Alternative form of senet (“ancient board game”) [An Ancient Egyptian board game, probably played as a strategy game similar to chess or go.]
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An ancestor of modern chess.
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(uncountable) A trick-taking card game.
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A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess which of three small cups (or shells) a pea-sized object is concealed under, after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery.
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A dice game in which players attempt to cover up a series of visible numbers. On each throw, the player can cover any combination of open numbers that add up to the total number of dots showing on the dice.
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A Chinese game of chance involving betting on the outcome of rolling three dice.
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(dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where six actions must be performed.
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(obsolete, card games) The game of lansquenet.
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A children's luck-based board game of Indian origin, played on a numbered grid, the aim of which is to proceed to the end, and in which ladders aid progress and snakes impede it.
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(card games) A multi-player variation of patience in which each player has their own tableau but the foundations are in a common area between all the players.
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A game for one person, played on a board with pegs or balls, in which the object is, beginning with all the places filled except one, to remove all but one of the pieces by "jumping", as in draughts.
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(card games) Obsolete form of spadille. [The ace of spades in ombre and quadrille.]
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(card games) Obsolete form of spadille. [The ace of spades in ombre and quadrille.]
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The tiles used in this game.
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(UK, gambling, slang, archaic) A die, especially one that is loaded.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where ten actions must be performed.
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A mind game where the objective is to avoid thinking about "The Game", and by thinking about it one loses, and subsequently has to announce one's loss to the world in order to make them lose.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where three actions must be performed.
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(New Zealand, Canada, obsolete) the game of crown and anchor
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An old card game for three players.
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Alternative form of tredille (“the card game”) [An old card game for three players.]
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(card games) The game of rouge et noir.
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(backgammon) The third point from the outer edge on each player's home table.
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(archaic) The game of nineholes.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where twelve actions must be performed.
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A call in any children's game, such as jacks, where two actions must be performed.
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A party game in which players conceal a small coin or similar item in one palm as they slap it against a table, while other players attempt to identify which hand conceals the item.
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(historical) A board game related to backgammon.
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(obsolete) The card game whist.
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In the game of Yahtzee, a five-of-a-kind, where all dice show the same value, which is the highest-scoring combination.
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One of a set of twenty-five cards, each featuring one of five symbols (circle, plus sign, square, star, wavy lines), used by researchers to test claims of ESP or remote viewing.
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