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One Paperclip
A tabletop RPG set on MacGuyver's adventures as he fights crime and saves the day using his scientific knowledge of heat-seeking missiles disguised in cardboard tubes wrapped with twine from a rollup bin at Radio Shack for 10 cents each sold by mail order through an advertisement written to look like it was done over breakfast. The game is designed specifically around MacGuyver's adventures, but players can choose their own characters and bring them into the adventure themselves as they fight crime in 1980s America using science-savvy tricks such as disguising a cardboard tube with twine from Radio Shack for $0.10 each sold by mail order through an advertisement written to look like it was done over breakfast on paper that is folded twice, then unfolded and stapled together at the corners before being put into envelopes along with their own typewritten script of what they want MacGuyver to say as he fights crime in 1980s America. The game also features cardboard tubes filled with heat-seeking missiles disguised inside other objects such as soda bottles or plastic wrap that are then placed onto a hot stove for cooking, and finally the players use flash powder (which is illegal but used throughout history by chemists) mixed into coffee to create an explosive chemical reaction on paper using their
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