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Preference
Preference, or Preferans, is a trick-taking card game played with a 32-card deck formed by removing the twos through sixes from a standard 52-card deck. The name comes from the term used in Boston for the preferred trump suit (determined ...
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- Maypole Dancing
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- Music, Playing
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- Sailing
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- Gambling
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- Playground as Politics
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- Civilization (I, II, III, IV)
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- Minesweeper
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