19 Tips To Level Up Games & Hobbies

You those people who are constantly trying to recruit you into joining their boring hobbies, or playing tedious games? There has to be something they know, that we don't, about arguably uninteresting pastimes.

To test that theory, we asked our readers to show us their super-secret, insider tips for making their favorite stuff loads of interesting fun. And as it turns out, once you change the rules, the equipment, or applied some other relatively obscure tweak, the experience is instantly better.

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19 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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18 Entry by Gareth Klieber

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17 Entry by Cracked Plasticians

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15 Entry by Moses Armstrong

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14 Entry by Erin Willis

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13 Entry by PookieJones

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12 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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11 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

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10 Entry by Carlos Suarez

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9 Entry by Kristina Yong

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8 Entry by Markos Hasiotis

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7 Entry by Megha Sharma

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6 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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5 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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4 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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3 Entry by Anthony Paparo

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2 Entry by Kristina Yong

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