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Games & Humor Joshua Foer says that one past memory champion developed a technique to remember more than 4,000 binary digits in half an hour.

Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer?

Some people can memorize thousands of numbers, the names of dozens of strangers or the precise order of cards in a shuffled deck. Science writer and U.S. Memory Champion Joshua Foer shows how anyone can become a memory virtuoso, including him.
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Rosie Schaap: What Are You Drinking?

Everyone has a go-to drink, but only the real heavy-hitters get theirs named after them. (Would Tom Collins have thirsted for his eponymous drink, had he existed?) V.I.P. and bartender Rosie Schaap knows a thing or two about a good cocktail--having clocked over 13,000 hours in bars--so we test her mixological know-how against one of her regulars.
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Hahd-Cawr Pun

A game dedicated to the stereotypical Boston dialect, where "r's" are dropped and new puns emerge.
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Name Brand Names

Play a game about "me clothes"--clothing items that carry the name of its inventor or inspiration.
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