The premise of most escape games is simple: a team of players is “locked” inside a themed room, and must solve an interlinking series of puzzles in order to escape.
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Sedera Ranaivoarinosy: One Game at a time
Gatherings with my family are synonymous with food and, mostly, noise.
Loud voices. The clatter of forks and knives on plates. Resonant belly laughs. Screaming matches and impassioned debates.
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Orla Foster: The Science
When football finally staggered back onto our TV sets this June, it looked and felt entirely different from the game we were used to. Suddenly, the mixed metaphors were sombre and the jargon had taken on a distinctly more medical bent. This poem was written to reflect the new reality of the beautiful game, with snatched fragments of commentary reshaped into verse.
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Joy Frank-Collins: Covid-19 Dims Friday Night Lights
At the end of the 2019 high school football season, Grandview Heights Bobcats Head Coach Jason Peters knew 2020 would be a tough one on the gridiron. Eleven of his total 39 players were graduating, leaving a giant hole in team leadership and multiple vacancies in key roles on both sides of the ball.
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