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Don't Quote Me is a brand developed by Wiggles 3D. The company is a games and entertainment publisher. The company has developed a line of Don't Quote Me board games and also has an online quotations database.
The original Don't Quote Me game features quotes from historical figures and current celebrities. It won GAMES Magazine's GAMES 100 award in 2004. Other versions of the game include a TV edition, a children's edition and a sports edition.
A public Facebook app lets users play the original Don't Quote Me game online.
Don't Quote Me has a series of syndicated newspaper puzzles. The puzzles all feature quotations. Don't Quote Me has a series of syndicated newspaper puzzles that appear daily in print and online in USA Today.
A different type of quote puzzle, called a QuoteSlide, appears daily on Shockwave.com and Games.com.
In 2008, the editors at Don't Quote Me produced a quotations book. Called Beltway Bloopers: Hilarious Quotes and Anecdotes from Washington, D.C., it was published by Metro Books. The book is a collection of political quotations.
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Richard Channing Garfield is an American mathematician, inventor, and game designer. Garfield created Magic: The Gathering, which is considered to be the first modern collectible card game (CCG). Magic debuted in 1993 and its success spawned many imitations. Garfield oversaw the successful growth of Magic and followed it with other game designs. Included in these are Keyforge, Netrunner, BattleTech(CCG), Vampire: The Eternal Struggle, Star Wars Trading Card Game, The Great Dalmuti, Artifact, and the board game RoboRally. He also created a variation of the card game Hearts called Complex Hearts. Garfield first became passionate about games when he played the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons, so he designed Magic decks to be customizable like roleplaying characters. Garfield and Magic are both in the Adventure Gaming Hall of Fame.
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