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Valentine's Day has snuck up on me like a vampire rogue at midnight. You know the one.   I can only hope that I'm the only one who has been taken by surprise. But if you're also staring at the calendar in a last-minute panic, there's hope. The Warehouse 23...

Long-time readers know that I'm on part 47,813 of my exploration of card shuffling. In the previous installment, I mentioned having two more insights. This is the promised second one. I love playing big "all-expansions"-type games; obviously, Munchkin is a great candidate for such super-deck shenanigans. One problem with this, however,...

Here's a quick recommendation: Get a labeler. I often end up with oddball bits of ephemera that would be handy to label, and I've found (no real surprise) that a labeler works great for that. In particular, the Dymo LetraTag LT-100H Portable Label Maker has been my weapon of choice...

I've been on a bit of a shuffling kick lately here on the Daily Illuminators, and I have at least two more insights to share in this regard. We'll cover one here. Readers of the last installment learned that a 168-card Munchkin set doesn't need more than 11 shuffles to...

In a recent Daily Illuminator, I laid some of the groundwork for how many shuffles it takes to randomize a standard deck of cards (SPOILER: seven), and name-dropping some sources. Today we're taking a deeper dive into how this affects us, and I use some shaky math to generate something...

I know I'm probably late to the party, but have you seen The Beatles: Get Back yet?    I missed out on the original debut of this three-part documentary because we might be the only household in America that hasn't yet subscribed to Disney+. (It's a conscious decision on our...

The dilemma of trying to describe a brand-new adventure for the Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game is that you don't want to give away the secrets contained therein. So, with the release of Dungeon Fantasy: The Devil's Workshop, we don't accidentally want to give would-be heroes an unfair advantage in figuring...

I've flirted with pin collecting on and off throughout my life. My high school and college backpack usually featured quips or witty slogans on basic button pins. I received a small collection of Beatles pins as a birthday gift years ago. (Don't worry – they're displayed in a shadow box,...