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Local History Research
Dig up the forgotten stories of the streets you live on.
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Cryptozoology
Chase the evidence behind creatures science hasn't confirmed.
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Paleography
Learn to read handwriting that's been illegible for centuries.
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Personality Typology
Map how people tick through the frameworks that try to explain us.
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66% matchScience & Curiosity
Epigraphy
Read what was carved in stone thousands of years ago.
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Genealogy
Trace your family back through records, names, and dead ends.
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Speculative Biology
Invent alien life that evolves by real biological rules.
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59% matchGames & Strategy
Chess Composition
Compose elegant chess problems, not to win a game, but to craft a puzzle with a single beautiful solution.
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Go (Game)
Surround territory on a simple grid that hides bottomless depth.
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55% matchGames & Strategy
Cryptic Crosswords
Crack the wordplay behind the clue, and eventually flip to setting fiendish puzzles of your own.
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54% matchScience & Curiosity
Conlanging (Language Creation)
Invent a language from scratch: its sounds, grammar, and script.
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53% matchScience & Curiosity
Citizen Science
Help real research by counting, measuring, and logging what you observe.
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53% matchGames & Strategy
Deckbuilding
The brewer's craft behind trading card games: engineering a deck or cube that wins on purpose.
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Chess
Outthink one opponent across sixty-four squares with no luck involved.
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Ethnomusicology
Understand cultures through the music they make and why.
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Oral History Collection
Record the stories people carry before they're lost.
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Shogi
Japanese chess where captured pieces switch sides and return to the board, chess with the brakes off.
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51% matchScience & Curiosity
Mycology
Learn the hidden kingdom of fungi from the forest floor up.
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People Watching
Sit, watch, and read the quiet stories strangers tell without words.
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Vexillology
The study and design of flags: why they look the way they do, and how to design a great one.
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Video Gaming
Play across genres, from quick sessions to deep competitive ladders.
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49% matchScience & Curiosity
Meteorology
Read the sky and the data well enough to call tomorrow's weather.
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47% matchMaker & Engineering
Ethical Hacking
Break into systems on purpose to find the holes before attackers do.
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47% matchScience & Curiosity
Language Learning
Get to where you can actually hold a conversation in another tongue.
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