Sundays are for boarding up the windows, counting the canned goods and panic buying videogames. Also, for doing things for the first time.

• Every year the Interactive Fiction competition attracts inventive entries in the words-you-play genre. Every year, Emily Short writes smart-words-you-read about the entries she likes, and it’s worth spending a day diving through the round-up of her favourites, before playing the games for yourself.

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