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How did this article manage to reach the front page of Hacker News?

Although the game is good, it is not new.

Like Toddward said, I saw it in the Matt Cutts article earlier. Sorry for cluttering up the front page, I had just never heard of it before.

Matt Cutts mentioned it in a blog post earlier - must have piqued the interest of people who had never heard of it.

That's pretty much right on. My apologies to the geek gods for not knowing about this game earlier!