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 But careful: it is easy to confuse a real [[eight jet engines]] situation with the much less edifying “[[two Wankel engines]]” scenario — so named for the Mazda RX-3’s curious double rotary configuration, as featured in [[Top Trumps]] Supercars edition.
-The rotary Mazda is basically ''[[sui generis]]'', and in the context of the game, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it.
+In a game designed to rank items by reference to their common attributes, The rotary Mazda is oddly ''sui generis'', and when it crops up in a hand, just confusing, and you wonder what the manufacturers had in mind by including it.
-The player opting for the “[[Wankel gambit]]” quickly discovers what he thought would be a triumphal master stroke was nothing of the kind: his fellow players are momentarily baffled, then irritated, and quickly form a consensus that the 370 bhp V12 Lamborghini wins, and move on.
+The player opting for the “[[Wankel gambit]]” quickly starts to wonder that, too. He discovers what he thought would be a triumphal master stroke was nothing of the kind: instead of yielding to his wizardry, fellow players find it trying. They are momentarily baffled, then sigh, side-eye each other and swiftly form a consensus that since there is no dimension of human endeavour in which an 1800cc motor capable of generating 85 horsepower — however funny its name — would outdo a 370 brake horsepower seven litre V12, the Lamborghini wins, and signal a desire to move on.
-The sensible “Wankeler” accepts his peers’ judgment, surrenders his card and carries on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly he has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the cruelty of the world.
+Faced with this accord, the sensible “Wankeler” accepts his peers’ judgment, nobly surrenders his card and carries on; the foolhardy one stamps his feet, insists hotly that it is ''he'' who has been mistreated, and storms off to stew in righteous dudgeon about the cruelty of the world.
-But enough about me.
+But enough about me, readers.
-{{Sa}}
+{{Toptrumps}}
-*[[Top Trumps]]
-*[[Two Wankel engines]]
-*The [[Opel Kadett|Opel frigging Kadett]]
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