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Having folks enjoy board games is our glorious purpose. He/Him in the Mid-western United States. Post beautiful boardgames to #ThirstyCardboard. Pro: FLGS, small publishers, great boardgames, rock climbing, disc golf Con: shelving vertically, gatekeeping.

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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 22h
My boardgame group played D&D last weekend. All of us were new except for the DM. It was a ton of fun. I think we'll continue our campaign at some point here. I was curious how our AP-prone member would do & it was what I expected, still AP but at least we could move them along most of the time.
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The Goon Star Wars Stormtrooper Says Move Along
Alt: The Goon Star Wars Stormtrooper Says Move Along
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I add little boardgame backgrounds with quotes on them for my work Zoom backgrounds from time to time. Normally it's just my shelves behind me but I think it's fun to switch it up.
Closeup of chess set with the words "Be a game changer, the world is full of players"
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
D&D Session 0 tonight in lieu of my weekly boardgame night. Excited! Nervous! Unsure what to expect. Glad the DM is experienced and one of my friends. First ever real D&D Session on Saturday.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Things that usually NOPE a #boardgame for me: 🎲 Only great at 3 players 🎲 180+ min playtime 🎲 Kickstartered 🎲 More than $60 🎲 Game that requires an expansion to be any good 🎲 Box size bigger than a standard-sized box 🎲 Sexualized themes or art 🎲 App required to play What's on your NOPE list?
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The Office: Michael Scott Says 'Don't Like That'
Alt: The Office: Michael Scott Says 'Nope, Don't Like That'
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Will be my first real crack at D&D this wknd. My friend, an experienced DM, is running an all day mini-campaign/1 shot. 7 players, all w/ no experience. Session 0 is taking over boardgame night on Thursday to prep for it. Wish us luck! I'm playing a Path of Glory Paladin based on Don Quixote.
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Spinning Windmill
Alt: Spinning Windmill... "Here's to tilting at windmills"
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
As someone who grew up reading hobby magazines, Senet would be right up my alley as a boardgamer. Unfortunately I live in the US so ordering back issues would cost about $15 a piece after shipping. I don't think I can justify that. Maybe one day they'll print in the US.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I like to think that he hands over the CEO reigns and goes "Only one person can save this company and it's me" and he flashes his cape and goes to his boardgame design studio.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
You think Rodney Smith just shows his own how to play video as the teach during his boardgame nights?
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It's weird being an adult sometimes. Like hey I just ordered a turtle sand-timer to decorate my boardgame shelves & I'm chuffed about it. Not that I love turtles (I have nothing else turtle in my house) but I had a pet turtle as a child & also the shell pattern is hexes which has boardgame vibes.
Sand timer balanced in a turtle's shell
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every day I do the NY Times Wordle and Connections. Wordle is okay but my mom and I both do it everyday to send the results and keep in touch. Connections is by far my favorite and feels like a mini version of the boardgame Codenames with a clue giver who is a little loopy.
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Morris's Hilarious WiFi Pickup Line
Alt: Morris's Hilarious WiFi Pickup Line
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Finally boardgame night again. Oof it's been a long week. Can't wait to play!
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
What ever happened to Barenpark? Quite the pedigree with Phil Walker-Harding but I NEVER hear anyone talk about it anymore. Is it still hitting anyone's table? Thought it might be a good one to pick up at some point. Bärenpark | Board Game | BoardGameGeek share.google/TPW3qej3xI5M...
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Bärenpark
Build a bear park on personal boards by carefully placing polyominoes.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Got in a rare 2 player only boardgame night. Can't go wrong with Star Realms, Jaipur and Lost Cities.
BG Stats 2 x 2.
Play count:
2: Dominion;
2: Star Realms;
1: Jaipur;
1: Lost Cities.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Jumping in with my Top 20 boardgames by time and by plays since I've started tracking in late 2023. You can really tell that we often play with 6 players. Good to celebrate what ACTUALLY hits the table. My 6 Nimmt cards definitely show some good wear on them!
Top 20 boardgames by plays. Captain Flip, Star Realms, 6 Nimmt, Bang! The dice game, Scout, Point Salad, No Thanks!, Cascadia, Spots, and Codenames too the listTop 20 boardgames by playtime. Robo Rally, 6 Nimmt, Cascadia, Star Realms, Scout, Quacks, PitchCar, Captain Flip, Cosmic Encounter, Potion Explosion top the list
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Used to run a boardgame event for my direct team. We played every other month & then it got sidelined due to a pressing project. That project is almost done but now our team has grown from 8 to 12 folks...much harder to find an engaging digital game to play. Suggestions? Managed to get them on BGA.
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IT Crowd: Moss Enjoys Popcorn
Alt: IT Crowd: Moss Enjoys Popcorn
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
You know the trouble with tribbles... (Couldn't resist)
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Welp. Turns out it's SUPER fiddly as designed with stacking the tiles on the board. Probably going to have to shift it to a roll and write. Unsure how I feel about that. 🎲✂️
Prototype boardgame on the table. Grids on grids on grids.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Look a MVP boardgame prototype to test. Is it ugly and devoid of theme? Yup. Is it a playable game? IDK⁉️ Will it be fun? IDK⁉️ But it's something at least. 🎲✂️
Boardgame prototype. Grid cards, grid board, dice, VP boards, and a few other various squares of paper.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
When people ask me what the coolest thing is you can do for boardgames, this is my answer. Designing new games is great but getting games to folks (especially kids) is where it's at. +You should be able to Letter in boardgames. There should be school teams & scoring like sports.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Every boardgame design I work on, I always get tied up in the mire of how much to bolt onto the design and then it bogs down to nothing. Gunna strip this one down to the basic mechanisms and playtest then build up from there. Might save me a lot of grief. 🎲✂️
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Some bangers this month for August boardgames:
BG Stats Aug 2026

Plays: 13
H-index: 2
Games: 8
New: 0
Players: 8
Locations: 1
Hours: 9
Days: 4

Star Realms: 4
Spots: 2
Deep Sea Adventure: 2
Citadels: 1
A Fake Artist Goes to New York: 1
Cascadia: 1
PitchCar: 1
Saboteur: 1

11 designers:
Jun Sasaki: 25%
Alex Hague: 12%
Bruno Faidutti: 12%
Darwin Kastle: 12%
Fréderic Moyersoen: 12%
Goro Sasaki: 12%
Jean du Poël: 12%
Jon Perry: 12%
Justin Vickers: 12%
Randy Flynn: 12%
Robert Dougherty: 12%.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Another shirt for the boardgame geeks:
Shirt that says: Every GATHERING of friends is MAGIC.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
When I look at my winning boardgame night record for playing all the games that I own and choose to play...
Lost Planet comic. 

I have brought strategic conflict simulations
>Controlled revelry
I selected the ones that are most enjoyable
>In what sense?
These are the ones I am best at
>The strategy has already commenced
Perhaps
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
And this is why people bounce off Catan as a boardgame. This is a ROUGH distribution...
Catan dice distribution showing 0 rolls of 10 and the most rolls of 5.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The weird thing about hidden traitor boardgames (and human nature in general) is if you deny deny deny, you can still leave people uneasy about throwing you to the wolves...no matter how overt your actions are.
Guy in hotdog suit saying "we're all trying to find the guy who did this" with the text: us in every hidden traitor game
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This whole thread is enthralling, especially from a boardgame lens.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
What do folks use for paper cutters for their boardgame designs? I'm at it again but don't want to waste time on the trivial tasks like trimming paper by hand. More interested in the game part and getting it to playtest ASAP. 🎲 ✂️
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Dexterity games are boardgames too, right!? Anyway here's PitchCar from last night. Long track with some fast straight aways. Not the type I excel at, which showed as I was in 5th going into the 2nd lap. Managed to catch up on the jumps but lost in the tiebreaker at the end.
PitchCar track with Y split, jump, tight turn, bi-directional loop, and the loopty loop.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
See, we play boardgames because it mirrors the folly of life itself. We think we have some semblance of control but really we don't...but just for a while we gather with friends and roll the dice without consequences.
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Princess Bride: Classic Blunders!
Alt: Princess Bride: Classic Blunders!
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Well it's mid-August and I've only ordered a single boardgame and a single expansion the entire year. With time encroaching on the holidays (only 4 months out!) this will likely be my only purchases this year. I won't even get the games until the expansion releases in the US in like mid-Sept.
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Woman's Weird Face
Alt: Woman laughing then saying weird
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Hey @beziergames.bsky.social! I love the Suburbia app! However, it doesn't calculate the tiebreaker correctly. The rules state it should be first based on highest Reputation, which mine "Tony" (6) was higher than Shelley's (5). Should probably update that.
Screenshot of game where it gave the win to the computer despite tied score, where the highest reputation should have been the winner.Rules from Suburbia stating tie breaker is first the highest REPUTATION.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Here's a series of whacky boardgame takes on classic paintings drawn poorly on post-it notes. Enjoy!
Melting Meeples in Dali styleThe Screameeple - Munch styleGeometric Dice (abstracted) - Miro style
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Pouring caffeine into my body like a waterfall in a flood today. Will I survive through boardgame night later!? Will I be an uncontrollably jittery unbalanced washer? If variety is the spice of life, does that make chaos the cayenne pepper?
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Community Chaos
Alt: Community Chaos fire scene
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
I don't (and will never) paint minis but this transformation amazes me.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
Boardgames! In this economy!?
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Pat A Mat: Empty Pockets & Piggy Bank Smash
Alt: Pat A Mat: Empty Pockets & Piggy Bank Smash
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
New BGG rating system just dropped. It now goes from 1 to blood-vomitingly good.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Love Letter seems like the last game to get a deluxe edition...like Tsuro but here it is. Are there any boardgames that should have a lux edition that don't?
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Why do we keep playing new boardgames? The old ones are so good too. We played Citadels last night & it continues to be 🔥. It's also apparently easy to teach, I did a quick refresher then covered the new set of characters & started w/out realizing that 1 player hadn't ever played b4.
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Beavis and Butthead: You're Old!
Alt: Beavis and Butthead: You're Old!
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
So far the 6 year old has had nightmares for 4 nights within the last week. On top of that the 9 year old decides to wake up at 5 AM. So it's gunna be one hell of a slow processing boardgame night tonight. Wish me luck.
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Sleepy Tired Status
Alt: Sleepy Tired Status
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Gunna go shelf by shelf of my 106 boardgame collection as I get the time to talk about the games. It'll be a long 🧵 for those interested. So here's the whole collection as is. For the most part it's organized with lighter games on the ⬅️ to heavier on ➡️. 2P only games in top ➡️. 🧵 All/#Shelfie
Boardgame collection on Kallax shelves.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
This is such a weird article/view. Let those who want to play games, play. If you don't, then don't. & don't force/coerce anyone into anything for any reason. Why the hell would you want do anything w/ some 1 who doesn't want to? It's a crap experience on both ends.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Gencon? More like play some of the boardgames I have! Am I right? ...right?
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Dr. Evil's Sarcastic 'Riiiiiii' Reaction
Alt: Dr. Evil's Sarcastic 'Riiiiiii' Reaction
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Boardgame plays for July! Got both Imhotep and Flamme Rouge in, which I love and never hear anyone talk about anymore. They're gems!
BG Stats Jul 2026

Plays: 14
H-index: 2
Games: 11
New: 0
Players: 6
Locations: 1
Hours: 10
Days: 4

Spots: 2
Flip 7: 2
No Thanks!: 2
Dune: Imperium: 1
Potion Explosion: 1
Can't Stop: 1
Imhotep: 1
Carcassonne: 1
Flamme Rouge: 1

15 designers:
Alex Hague: 9%
Andrea Crespi: 9%
Asger Harding Granerud: 9%
Eric Olsen: 9%
Jon Perry: 9%.
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Boardgames are just like a night out drinking. 🎲/🍺 bringing obscure things to enjoy 🎲/🍺 Buying for the table 🎲/🍺 What's on tap tonight? 🎲/🍺 Often measured in rounds 🎲/🍺 Everyone has a specific flavor they prefer 🎲/🍺 Hoping your friend does something stupid 🎲/🍺 Enjoying a night with friends
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
It feels like it's a Cosmic Encounter kind of boardgame night this week. Or PitchCar if we end up with 8. Really need to play something beyond light party games.
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Rick: I Got Friends In Cosmic Places
Alt: Rick: I Got Friends In Cosmic Places
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
I have a lot of boardgames that I know I would personally love but simply don't have the group to play. The ones I've bought of these sit on my shelf & come out when the planets align every few years. The scores of others, I just refuse to buy. I'd rather have something that hits the table more.
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Demi Moore Says 'Too Much' on Red Table Talk
Alt: Demi Moore Says 'Too Much' on Red Table Talk
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Played Monopoly the other day. My 9 y/o had been dying to play. At 3 players if you don't spend all day calculating trades, it wasn't that bad. Still shows its age...takes forever to ramp up but it wasn't the slog I remember it being yrs ago. Still wouldn't pick it over other games in my collection.
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Monopoly Man Celebrates Cheezus Server
Alt: Monopoly Man from Monopoly boardgame Celebrates Cheezus Server
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
There is very little more infuriating in boardgames than having the player b4 u take the move u need to do then have them go 'I actually didn't want to go there' (but it's too late to "fix"). So that was a fun 2+ hrs of desperately trying to scrape anything together in Dune Imperium after that move.
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Stilgar in Dune Part 2
Alt: Stilgar in Dune Part 2
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
I only managed to purge one boardgame from my collection. Sorry!
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Misha Collins Reveals Sorry! Board Game
Alt: Misha Collins Reveals Sorry! Board Game
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Perpetual Ploy (42% cardboard) @perpetualploy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Every time I take the first player token for the next round in a boardgame.
Look at me meme. "I am the first player now"
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