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Game night is no joking matter. When your friends arrive ready to hand over their cash you don’t want to bust out just any box of cards. You want premium stock (these are also cambric [...]

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You can lie all you want to justify the reasons you "needed" your iPhone 4s or the latest Android device. You can tell yourself it will help out at the office or it will streamline your [...]

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There was a time not all that long ago when men wore hats, women wore stockings in public, the appletini didn't exist and you could actually smoke inside. Finding a place like that now is [...]

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Normally we wouldn't shell out more than a couple of bucks on a deck of cards. Ours are usually the $2 packs that will quickly be ruined by spilled beer and nacho cheese stains on poker [...]

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There's something magical about a boat full of aces over eights. Something extraordinary about a hand full of sequentially numbered red or black cards. Whether your game is hold em or stud or draw, or [...]

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Chess has always been a game we could get behind. It's the type of sophisticated, sporting endeavor that exudes wood paneling, the smell of cigars and the taste of a few fingers of quality scotch. [...]

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Your arsenal of card tricks may only include duping a drunken buddy into a game of 52-Card Pickup, but the second your deck of Fantastique Playing Cards arrives you'll automatically have something impressive to show [...]

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Ever since Batman first appeared on the tv when we were kids we wanted to be him. Then George Clooney and that whole fake nipples thing happened and we weren't so sure anymore. Thanks to [...]

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Office warfare is serious business around these parts. If you're not paying attention and ready to retaliate, the likelihood of you ending up with rubber band welts on your face or hot coffee in your [...]

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Long before we were boosting cars and buying hookers in Grand Theft Auto, and way before any Madden version made others question what game we were watching, we were busy entertaining ourselves with pixelated bad [...]

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You probably remember Buckyballs as the hot holiday toy for grown men this past year. They were the Tickle Me Elmo for dudes out of diapers. Now that you've spent almost a year additively playing with [...]

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You might have missed out on your shot at this year's WSOP—in fact you may be far from that level losing tons of cash, your car and perhaps your wife (tough bet to explain to [...]

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It's sad that smokey old pool halls are disappearing at a rate faster than even a magic 8 ball could predict.  Where former bars of bottom shelf whiskey, lurking sharks and nights of debaucherous  fun [...]

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We found the board game version of Hipster Bingo a while back and it immediately transformed our road trips into hunting expeditions for ironic mustaches and black framed glasses.  The only issue we had was [...]

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Most of us probably played a version of I Spy as a kid on long family road trips.  You’d score points for finding a certain state’s license plate, a police car flying by or a [...]

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