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      <title><![CDATA[7 Wonders Duel]]></title>
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*Because the best way to resolve an argument with your spouse is a brutal Mediterranean arms race.*


The original 7 Wonders was a masterpiece of massive, mult...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[A Feast for Odin]]></title>
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*Because true Vikings prefer extreme logistics puzzles over actual combat.*


When someone invites you to play a game called ‘A Feast for Odin’, you naturally ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Apiary]]></title>
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Ah, Apiary. Stonemaier Games' attempt to make us care about space bees. Because regular terrestrial agriculture simply wasn't producing enough plastic compone...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Ark Nova]]></title>
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*Basically, it's managing a zoo without the unmistakable smell of the monkey enclosure.*


Let me tell you about Ark Nova. It is, without a doubt, the most wil...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Arkham Horror: The Card Game]]></title>
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*An incredibly immersive simulator of a 1920s librarian slowly going insane in a dark basement.*


Look at the beautifully grim box. Arkham Horror: The Card Ga...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Barrage]]></title>
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*Because destroying a friendship over imaginary water flow is arguably the purest form of gaming.*


Right, listen carefully. There are games that are slightly...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brass Birmingham]]></title>
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*The Industrial Revolution shoved into a box. Sooty, sweaty, and entirely majestic.*


Right then. Brass: Birmingham. It is quite simply the most infuriatingly...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Brass Lancashire]]></title>
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*Because building the Birmingham canal network was simply not miserable or ruthless enough.*


Right. We have completely exhausted the sheer brilliance of Bras...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Camel Up]]></title>
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Right. Gather round. What we have here is not a serious simulation of Middle Eastern commerce. It is not an elegant mathematical puzzle about crop rotation. I...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Catan]]></title>
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Now, Catan. Some say it's the grandfather of modern board gaming, the very reason we no longer spend our evenings subjugated by the tyrannical monotony of Mon...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions Incorporated]]></title>
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*Because nothing says 'fantasy adventure' quite like filling out corporate HR paperwork while a dragon tries to eat you.*


Let us be intensely honest for a mo...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Concordia]]></title>
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*Selling cloth in ancient Rome has never been this mathematically graceful.*


Right, look at this box. Be honest. Upon seeing it, you probably thought you wer...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crokinole]]></title>
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*It’s just aggressively flicking wooden discs, but it is inexplicably the greatest pub game ever invented.*


Right. Listen. You can spend $150 on massive boxe...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Daybreak]]></title>
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*Because occasionally you want to panic about global warming cooperatively instead of just screaming at the news.*


Right. Listen. Most cooperative board game...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dune Imperium]]></title>
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*It’s not just about controlling the spice, it’s about sending a terrifying message.*


Dune: Imperium. The undisputed, original masterpiece that somehow manag...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Dune: Imperium - Uprising]]></title>
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*Because the original just didn’t have enough colossal, uncontrollable sandworms.*


Right, if you thought the political maneuvering in the original Dune: Impe...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Eclipse: Second Dawn for the Galaxy]]></title>
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Stop what you are doing. Look at this box. It is not merely a board game, it is a gravitational anomaly that will consume your dining room table and an entire...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Everdell]]></title>
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*A ruthless, highly aggressive engine builder hiding underneath a massive distraction of a 3D cardboard tree.*


Let us address the giant, over-engineered elep...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship]]></title>
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Listen, we have all played the Pandemic system. You cure the blue disease, you cure the red disease, you inevitably lose to an outbreak in Jakarta, and you pa...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Food Chain Magnate]]></title>
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*Because nothing destroys a long-term friendship faster than aggressively undercutting the price of a hamburger.*


Let’s get something perfectly straight. Foo...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Frosthaven]]></title>
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*It’s colder, it’s heavier, and it secretly wants to bury you alive under a mountain of cardboard tokens.*


Right. You looked at Gloomhaven and thought, “Yes,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gaia Project]]></title>
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*Terra Mystica in space, featuring aggressive plastic planets and a tech tree that practically requires an astrophysics degree.*


Right. If you read the revie...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gloomhaven]]></title>
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*Not so much a board game as a structural integrity test for your dining table.*


Look at the sheer, terrifying mass of this box. Gloomhaven isn't something y...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Gloomhaven: Jaws of the Lion]]></title>
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*Finally, a version of Gloomhaven that doesn't require structurally reinforcing your coffee table.*


Okay, let us address the very heavy elephant in the room....]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Great Western Trail]]></title>
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*Delivering cows via train has absolutely no right to be this unbelievably stressful or fun.*


Listen to me. If you tried to pitch this game to a normal, func...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Heat: Pedal to the Metal]]></title>
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*Because nothing says ‘casual racing’ quite like aggressively ruining your engine block.*


Right, racing games have a notoriously terrible track record in the...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Hegemony: Lead Your Class to Victory]]></title>
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*Finally, a board game that lets you legally simulate a devastating national economic strike.*


There are heavily asymmetrical board games, and then there is ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Kanban EV]]></title>
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*Because playing a board game specifically to be yelled at by an angry factory manager is apparently fun.*


Look, there are heavy Euro-games, and then there a...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Lost Ruins of Arnak]]></title>
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*Indiana Jones the Board Game, if Indiana Jones spent most of his time carefully managing his fear of large birds.*


Right, pop on your fedora and grab a mach...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Mage Knight: Board Game]]></title>
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*A fantasy adventure game that mathematically punishes you for casually strolling through a forest.*


Listen. Board games about wizards and swords are usually...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Marvel Champions: The Card Game]]></title>
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*Finally, a card game that accurately simulates the administrative burden of paying for Avengers-level property damage.*


Right, listen carefully. Living Card...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Nemesis]]></title>
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*Because exploring a damaged spaceship in deep sleep shouldn't end with getting ripped in half by an alien.*


Look, there comes a time in every board gamer's ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Orléans]]></title>
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*Because apparently deck-building isn't stressful enough unless you do it completely blind in a velvet bag.*


Right then. We all know deck-builders. Dominion,...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pandemic Legacy: Season 1]]></title>
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*It’s Pandemic, but with the terrifying realization that your mistakes are permanent.*


Right then. We all know Pandemic. Blue cubes, red cubes, someone screa...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Root]]></title>
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*Aggressive, brutal woodland warfare painted over with aggressively cute Disney-style animals.*


Right, if you glance at the box for Root, you will see a coll...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Scythe]]></title>
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*It looks like massive, brutal combat, but it's actually an extremely tense potato-farming simulator.*


Scythe. Look at the artwork. You see massive, terrifyi...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence]]></title>
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*Because scanning deep cosmic static for three hours is actually more exciting than most Euro-games.*


Right. Listen very carefully. In 2024, the heavy Euro-g...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sky Team]]></title>
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*Finally, a two-player game that actively simulates the sheer terror of aggressively failing to land a commercial aircraft.*


Cooperative board games are rema...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Slay the Spire: The Board Game]]></title>
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*Because playing it for three thousand hours on a computer simply wasn't ruining your productivity enough.*


It is incredibly rare for a massively successful ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Spirit Island]]></title>
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*Because sometimes you just want to violently throw an entire colonial expedition straight into the sea.*


Right, listen carefully. In almost every euro-game ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Star Wars: Rebellion]]></title>
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*Because sometimes, negotiating trade routes is boring and you just want to blow up a planet.*


Right. You love Star Wars. I love Star Wars. We all love the o...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Supremacy: The Game of the Superpowers]]></title>
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*Finally, a completely authentic simulation of destroying the global economy right before aggressively plunging the planet into a nuclear winter.*


Listen, mo...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terra Mystica]]></title>
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*You are a fantasy race trying to forcefully alter the physical landscape purely to spite your neighbors.*


Terra Mystica. To the uninitiated, it looks like s...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Terraforming Mars]]></title>
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*Turning a cold, dead rock into a slightly less cold, slightly damp rock.*


Terraforming Mars. The undisputed heavyweight champion of the engine-building worl...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Castles of Burgundy]]></title>
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*The most visually washed-out game about incredibly exciting dice manipulation.*


Stefan Feld’s absolute masterpiece. The Castles of Burgundy is the quintesse...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Crew: Mission Deep Sea]]></title>
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*Because nothing breeds silent, seething hatred quite like someone playing the wrong color card.*


We all know standard trick-taking games. Hearts, Spades, Br...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Lord of the Rings: Duel for Middle-earth]]></title>
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*It’s 7 Wonders Duel, but with aggressively more aggressive Hobbits and actual physical murder.*


Let us address the immediate and perfectly obvious reality h...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Through the Ages: A New Story of Civilization]]></title>
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*A spreadsheet so mathematically flawless it practically builds pyramids inside your brain.*


Right, if you have ever played Sid Meier’s Civilization on a com...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Too Many Bones]]></title>
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*An incredibly heavy, premium box of high-stakes poker chips masquerading as a fantasy adventure.*


Let’s immediately address the most aggressively bizarre el...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Twilight Imperium: 4th Ed]]></title>
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*It is not an afternoon activity. It is a legally binding contract.*


Stop whatever you are doing. Look at the size of this box. Twilight Imperium is not a bo...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Twilight Struggle]]></title>
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*Three hours of deeply paranoid, sweat-inducing political tension masquerading as an area control game.*


Look at the board. It is an incredibly dry, muted ma...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Underwater Cities]]></title>
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*Terraforming Mars but severely damp, considerably tighter, and infinitely more stressful.*


Right, if you absolutely adore Terraforming Mars—pushing cubes, b...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Viticulture Essential Edition]]></title>
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*Because pretending to drink wine while crushing tiny wooden grapes is deeply, beautifully relaxing.*


Sometimes you absolutely do not want to blow apart a sp...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[War of the Ring: 2nd Ed]]></title>
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*Because sometimes you just need to drop a massive army of Nazgul onto a poor, unsuspecting Hobbit.*


Right. Throw away your dusty old copy of Risk. Set it on...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Wingspan]]></title>
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Right, so we're talking about a game about birds. BIRDS. Not invading Russia in winter, not managing an intergalactic empire, but collecting small, feathered ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:25:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Top 5 Board Games to Play at a BBQ]]></title>
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      <title><![CDATA[Drunk Elephant D-Bronzi Sunshine Drops]]></title>
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Welcome to the pinnacle of modern absurdity. We live in a world where you can pay thirty-four pounds for a thirty-millilitre bottle of brown liquid that is des...]]></description>
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      <title><![CDATA[Huda Beauty Easy Bake Loose Baking & Setting Powder]]></title>
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Let’s be absolutely clear. The concept of "baking" your face is utter madness. You pack a quarter-inch thick layer of highly milled powder under your eyes, sit...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Medicube Collagen Night Wrapping Mask]]></title>
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Let’s be honest. For most of human history, going to sleep involved lying in the dark and trying not to be eaten by a bear. Now? Medicube expects you to paint ...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Victoria Beckham Beauty Foundation]]></title>
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Let’s manage our expectations immediately. This isn’t a mask. If you are looking to plaster over the poor life choices of your late twenties with a thick, impe...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[The Ordinary Niacinamide 10% + Zinc 1%]]></title>
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It’s a glass bottle with a rubber dropper. It looks like it was stolen from a 1950s Soviet laboratory. There is no gold leaf. There is no perfume. There is jus...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Beauty</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Rhode Peptide Lip Treatment]]></title>
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It’s a tube. A small, grey, minimalist tube that looks like it belongs in the hands of a futuristic architect. But inside... it’s the gloss of the gods. Specif...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
      <category>Beauty</category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Forest Shuffle]]></title>
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It’s a forest. You plant trees. You invite squirrels. And if you’re not careful, you’ll spend your entire Tuesday night agonising over whether a mushroom belon...]]></description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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