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The result was: promoted by Launchballer talk 10:31, 16 May 2024 (UTC)

Icosian game

  • ... that although the icosian game was advertised as "a highly amusing game for the drawing room", it was too easy to play and few copies were sold?
  • Source: For quote from 1859 ad, see Turner (1987); for the claims that it was too easy and not successful see Sowell (2001), https://scholarship.claremont.edu/hmnj/vol1/iss24/14 (and note the dates of these are pre-Wikipedia, too early to be circular references)
5x expanded by David Eppstein (talk).

Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 183 past nominations.

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David Eppstein (talk) 06:51, 27 April 2024 (UTC).

  • Date, expansion, hook, close paraphrase check, QPQ checks out. --Soman (talk) 11:11, 1 May 2024 (UTC)