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From the Ted Talk by Jane McGonigal: Gaming can make a better world

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We've been playing Warcraft since 1994. That was the first real-time strategy game from the World of waarcrft series. That was 16 years ago. They paelyd dice games for 18 years, we've been payling Warcraft for 16 years. I say we are ready for our own epic game. Now, they had half the civilization go off in search of a new wlrod, so that's where I get my 21 billion huors a week of game-play from. Let's get half of us to agree to spend an hour a day playing games, until we solve real-world problems.

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We've been playing Warcraft since 1994. That was the first real-time strategy game from the World of ________ series. That was 16 years ago. They ______ dice games for 18 years, we've been _______ Warcraft for 16 years. I say we are ready for our own epic game. Now, they had half the civilization go off in search of a new _____, so that's where I get my 21 billion _____ a week of game-play from. Let's get half of us to agree to spend an hour a day playing games, until we solve real-world problems.

Solution

  1. hours
  2. world
  3. playing
  4. warcraft
  5. played

Original Text

We've been playing Warcraft since 1994. That was the first real-time strategy game from the World of Warcraft series. That was 16 years ago. They played dice games for 18 years, we've been playing Warcraft for 16 years. I say we are ready for our own epic game. Now, they had half the civilization go off in search of a new world, so that's where I get my 21 billion hours a week of game-play from. Let's get half of us to agree to spend an hour a day playing games, until we solve real-world problems.

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Important Words

  1. agree
  2. billion
  3. civilization
  4. day
  5. dice
  6. epic
  7. game
  8. games
  9. hour
  10. hours
  11. played
  12. playing
  13. problems
  14. ready
  15. search
  16. series
  17. solve
  18. spend
  19. strategy
  20. warcraft
  21. week
  22. world
  23. years