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2017-11-16
I would like to build my own menace. Would you happen to still have a document template with the possible game states in matchbox size? This could save me some work ;)
Stephan Graf
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: I do. I will email them to you
Matthew
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: Cool, thanks! Also thanks for translating the site to German, really useful.
Stephan Graf
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