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Undiluted Hocus Pocus - January 2023 Newsletter

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Do you remember Soma?

Soma was a parlor game mass manufactured by Parker Brothers in the late 1960s. Its seven pieces, made up of geometrically shaped unit cubes, could be assembled into one elegant palm-sized cube. The Parker Brothers handbook claimed over a million solutions for the puzzle (there are 240), which arrived in our home the Christmas of 196…

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