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Season's greetings

Before technology became such an integral part of our lives, people would look for mail in their postbox Festivals and special occasions such as birthdays became even more joyful as kids waited patiently for a postcard or greeting card from their loved ones. If you ask adults, they might have saved a few of these cards over the years.

So this holiday season, why not go back in time and send personalised greetings to dear ones?

Pick up all your art supplies and get your hands on an A4 sheet or any other paper. Fold the paper into half and paint anything you like on the outside. On the inside, write a small personalised note or a general season's greetings message. You could refer online for inspiration.

Alternatively, if you are a tech sawy person, there are websites such as Canva that let you personalise your designs for greeting cards. You could do so, take a print out and add your sign or any other small message to it as well.

Once you are done, head to the nearest post office, post your greeting and wait for calls or cards from cheerful dear ones.

Make a new friend

Have you heard of penpals? Also known as pen friends penpals are people who write to each other regularly via postal mail. They are usually strangers whose relationship is based on exchange of letters. Having a penpal has helped people improve their language and communication skills, lean a new language, understand a new culture and form lasting bonds of friendship. As technology progressed the practice of communicating through letters slowly died down. Today, however, some still continue to maintain their traditional exchange of letten, while most have taken it online Most traditional penpals have a post Office box number that helps them maintain anonymity

There are online penpal clubs that let you connect with strangers around the world. They offer you privacy and security settings such as connecting only with minors, anonymity, as well as reporting messages. But there are also websites that help you find someone you can connect with via snail mail.

So, why not go the old school way and exchange letters and make penpals?

However, remember not to share any personal information such as photos and bank account details. Also do not send any money and keep your parents in the loop about your penal.

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Guess the Christmas spoilers

This interesting and fun game can be played on Christmas eve with your friends online. A little prepping is required b start the game.

Prep work

First contact your friends and note down the names and the number of people participating in the game. Once you have the details, decide on their roles. If there are 10 people playing, you c assign four people as naughty kids and six others as ever. Decide on the number of rounds and assign different roles for each person for each round.

Game rules

Once everyone logs in, send them their roles before each round in private chat. The whole group of friends playing will be called the Merry Christmas group. Then, start the round. The Merry Christmas group discusses on the group chat for five minutes to identify the naughty kids. As names come up during the discussion, players can defend themselves and accuse others irrespective of whether they are an elf or a naughty kid to keep the game suspenseful. At the end of five minutes, the group has to unanimously name the naughty kids. If a naughty kid is identified, he or she is eliminated from the round. The Merry Christmas group then proceeds to identify the other naughty kids. You can play as many rounds as you like until all the naughty and modify the game according to the number of players.

Unscramble and draw

This fast-paced game tests your vocabulary as well as drawing skills. A little prep is required to start playing this game.

Prep work

Create chits of the letters of the English alphabet. Remember to feature each letter multiple times. Next, get your hands on some notepads and pencils and a timer. You could use your cell phone timer as well. And you are set.

Game rules

This game can be played by two or more players. The rules are simple. One player from team one picks up six chits. Once he picks up the chits, the time starts. Set the timer to two minutes. After picking the chits, he needs to decide on a word that he will draw and show to his teammate. This word should have been created from a few or all of the letters in the chits. His teammate now tries to guess that word. If she successfully guesses the word within two minutes, team one wins, earns a point and gets to play again. If not, the turn shifts to team two. If team one guesses the word, the opponent team can check the chits picked by player one and see if the word uses some or all of the letters he picked.

You can make this game more interesting by increasing or decreasing the number of chits picked as well as changing the time limit. You could also make it Christmas themed and give teams extra points if they form draw and guess a Christmas-related word.

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The total number of people who have played Call of Duty is larger than the population of some countries in the world. To put that into context, the population of Germany is only 80.4 million!

It also took 25 billion hours of play time to fire them all, which is longer than humans have actually existed!

Warzone’s overwhelming success is no surprise, with over 100 million players in the game. However, it’s only gotten bigger. In an earnings document published by Activision, Warzone is currently sitting at a monthly 111 million players. While most of that playerbase is brought in because of Warzone being free-to-play, Warzone is also one of the biggest battle royale games out there because of its heritage. Holding the Call of Duty brand is one of the key factors in Warzone’s success. Combine that with the engine and gameplay of Modern Warfare 2019, which received critical acclaim for its back-to-basics gameplay, and Warzone is the best-case scenario for Call of Duty. 

Warzone has proven to be one of the biggest titles in the franchise. Combining the numbers between Cold War, Warzone, and Modern Warfare, there are more than 113 million players enjoying what Call of Duty has offered over the past two years. More players are also enjoying the entire library of Call of Duty titles, with each game holding a small yet active playerbase. Not many game franchises can keep that kind of player commitment, which touts Call of Duty as the only first-person shooter franchise to go to.

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