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That the country which bestows Nobel Prizes should play this parlor game is no surprise.
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Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Remember playing demented parlor games that Wiig made up?
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Which brings us to, quite frankly, a far more interesting parlor game than Olympic roster debates.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
That parlor game has quietly become consumer software.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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Colton Valentine, New Yorker, 24 Jan. 2026
Remember playing demented parlor games that Wiig made up?
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 16 Jan. 2026
Which brings us to, quite frankly, a far more interesting parlor game than Olympic roster debates.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2026
That parlor game has quietly become consumer software.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 28 Nov. 2025
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“Parlor game.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/parlor%20game. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.
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