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Between Lincoln and Einstein, who would win in an Eternal Duel of Wits?
Lincoln had an austere and rigorous way with words. The Gettysburg Address is memorable not only for the message but for its gritty elocution. Still, there was a smidgen of down-home earthiness to Lincoln’s speeches, as you can hear in a line like “a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.” That’s why in Eternal Duel of Wits, a strategical card game on PC featuring history’s greatest public speakers and persuasive minds, Lincoln has a Charisma stat of 5 and a Guile stat of 8. His adversary Einstein has an Intelligence stat of 9, but far…