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Rich Stanton

I'm enraptured by this Zelda maniac who worked out there are 1 quadrillion 83 trillion 414 billion and 90 million possible permutations for a dog race in Majora's Mask

The cover art for Majora's Mask showing Link and various other characters from the game.

Yes it's a Zelda game, but bear with me because this is a story only possible on PC. The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask was first released on the Nintendo 64 in 2000, and since then has been the mainline entry that all the cool kids say is best. There are plenty of reasons for this, from the grim and unsettling atmosphere to the brilliant Groundhog Day structure, but one of the enduring appeals is all of the game's mysteries.

Most of these are intentional and authored by Nintendo, but some are not. And one of the biggest unresolved questions about Majora's Mask is about a dog racing minigame where, to put it mildly, the odds are heavily stacked against one blue dog in particular.

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