By and Bi
Fads and Trends
Board Games
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A tiny unit of digital processing, and what the "B" stands for in GB, KB, MB.

Byte

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On Twitter it's recently become popular to describe something vapid or soulless as "spiritually ____".

Israeli

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The word for the final stages of a game of chess, where most of the pieces are off the board, or the subtitle of the highest grossing Marvel movie.

The endgame

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It's not a biography, but a kind of film dramatizing the life of a person; the movies Bohemian Rhapsody and Oppenheimer are these.

Biopic

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This Emirati dessert filled with pistachio cream went enormously viral on TikTok in 2024.

Dubai chocolate

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The Russian peninsula Kamchatka is of particular strategic importance in this board game.

Risk

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The psychological effect by which people are less likely to help someone in an emergency situation if many other people are present.

The Bystander effect

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Created in 1975, Gary Dahl invented this "pet" that is as low maintenance as possible.

Pet rock

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Nigel Richards memorized an entire dictionary to successfully compete in the French-language version of this board game, despite not speaking a word of the language.

Scrabble

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A legislature divided into two houses or chambers is known as this.

Bicameral

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This fad hosted through the blockchain grew popular in 2021. One user expresses his dissatisfaction; "All my apes gone".

NFTs

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These are the two most expensive properties in Monopoly, they combine for a price of $750.

Boardwalk and Park Place

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A small, quiet road that does not see much use, and in a Frank Sinatra song: "Each careful step, along the ___".

Byway

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Several people have died doing this 2000's Bay Area trend where one exits their moving car and dances alongside it.

Ghost riding the whip

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NFL quarterback Joe Burrow recently professed his love for this board game in an interview. He likes to "hoard some ore and wheat" so he can have powerful cities in the late game.

Settlers of Catan