During the summer of 1883, while he was writing Huckleberry Finn, Twain #procrastinated by developing a game to teach his children the English monarchs. It worked by mapping out the lengths of their reigns using pegs along a road near his home. Twain was essentially turning his backyard into a memory palace.
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