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You're a cryptid.

For reasons, you must make it through a school day disguised as a student. You'll need both props and wits to blend in... and then get out!

"How was your day?"
"Fine"

"What's Popping, Fellow Kids" is for all the adults wondering: just what goes on at school all day? Take on the role of cringy outsider and let your kid set the scene -- just so you can chew it all up. Savor all the details you never hear about at dinner.

Here's just a few of the things I learned playing this game with my own kids:

• Ms. [Redacted] spends a lot of class time reading at her desk.
• Lunch is a battlefield. (OK, I already knew that -- but now I know the combatants.)
• Yes, kids are still making paper noisemakers. And using them.

A simple game with simple mechanics

This isn't some campaign you grind for nine months -- that's called school. This is a quick, twenty-minute romp through your child's daily dungeon schedule. Resolve an entire scene with just a flip of a coin.

Go undercover. Get the intel. Get out.