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  1. Interactive fiction - Wikipedia

    Some users of the term distinguish between interactive fiction, known as "Puzzle-free", that focuses on narrative, and "text adventures" that focus on puzzles. Due to their text-only …

  2. Office for Science and Society - Wikipedia

    The Office for Science and Society (OSS) is an organization dedicated to science education, operating from Montreal 's McGill University. Its staff and contributors use courses, mass …

  3. The Easy Way to Stop Smoking - Wikipedia

    The Easy Way to Stop Smoking is a self-help book written by British author and accountant Allen Carr first published in 1985. The book aims to help people quit smoking, offering a range of …

  4. Closet drama - Wikipedia

    Print is the crucial factor behind closet dramas: "a play that is not intended for commercial performance can nevertheless cross between private playreading and the public sphere" …

  5. Verbal arithmetic - Wikipedia

    A good puzzle should have one unique solution, and the letters should make up a phrase (as in the example above). Verbal arithmetic can be useful as a motivation and source of exercises …

  6. Martin Gardner - Wikipedia

    In 1950, he wrote an article in the Antioch Review entitled "The Hermit Scientist". [29] It was one of Gardner's earliest articles about junk science, and in 1952 a much-expanded version …

  7. Palindrome - Wikipedia

    An example of horizontal or linear symmetry in Webern's music is the first phrase in the second movement of the symphony, Op. 21. A striking example of vertical symmetry is the second …

  8. Social deduction game - Wikipedia

    Examples of social deduction games include Mafia, in which only the mafia know who is mafia and what the mafia players' roles are; Bang!, in which only the sheriff's role is known to …