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XYZZY

Magic word from the original text based computer adventure game, Adventure.

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Xyzzy
Xyzzy is a magic word from the Colossal Cave Adventure computer game. In computing, the word is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable or as a video game cheat code, the canonical "magic word". In mathematics, the word is used as a mnemonic for the cross product.

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