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The unbeatable card[1] in Top Trumps. There's no way anyone can beat the Boeing B-52 Stratocruiser, because there is not an aircraft designer in history who would be foolish enough to try to fit nine engines on a plane - these days, four is considered profligate - and unlike with the top Trumps supercars edition there is no magnificent flying machine equipped with one wankel engine to “queer the pitch”.

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  1. Known in poker as “the nuts” - when you know based on the cards on the table that your hand can’t be beaten.