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Not a Tabloid
Play the game Not A Tabloid, where you are an overwoorked tabloid writer trying to convince someone with "completely legitimate newspaper" interviews that they have no Big Secret. The other player has hidden something in a way so it doesn't give them away and can be made into good content if rolled right at some point during the game or another time when given out randomly within one's career as journalist; roll two 8-sided dice to determine their first question, which they answer on 20th of that same month. They get 24 questions from a random word list chosen by you and have 500 possible Big Secrets for them in case it comes up at any point during the game (they don't know about those secrets). There are two players: one is an overwoorked tabloid writer, while another has something big that they want to keep under wraps. They play on a 20-sided die and write down their answers with pen or paper in hand; roll for each question the first player asks by using dice from the box marked "hot topic words" (total of 4 questions). Once all 24 hot topics have been answered, players can take turns choosing one Big Secret to reveal that has already appeared on 20th day before. If they choose a new
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