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PC Gamer
Ted Litchfield

Please send help: We can't stop opening packs in Wikigacha, a browser-based card game where you collect Wikipedia articles like 'List of Red Hot Chili Peppers band members' or 'Bariatric Surgery'

Digital playing card created with the Wikipedia page for Bariatric Surgery.

Thanks to reporting from Automata, a new card collecting game has taken PC Gamer by storm, and I'm not talking about Slay the Spire 2 (that has also taken us by storm). I'm talking about Wikigacha, a browser-based game where you open packs to collect little cards corresponding to Wikipedia articles.

The Macombs Dam Bridge, Elizabeth II, the Gouzenko Affair, these are but a few of the crown jewels in my collection so far. Wikipedia's all-encompassing nature means my coworkers and I have unfortunately secured a few collar-tuggers as well: News writer Lincoln Carpenter is the not-exactly-proud owner of a Religious views of Adolf Hitler, while I have stoically accepted the burden of School segregation in the United States.

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