The odd-shaped boxes on down-town buildings that remind you of air-raid sirens are the antennas.

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But three decades later, players have purchased tens of millions of rule books, odd-shaped dice and fantasy character figurines.

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The bustling atmosphere is cheery, especially at Christmas, when people wait in line to get their odd-shaped boxes weighed and posted.

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As the light rays pass through this odd-shaped lens, they are distorted.

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He did just that, leading the final 78 laps on the 312-lap race around PIR's odd-shaped oval in the first non-restrictor-plate race with NASCAR's new Gen-6 car.

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The house was large but odd-shaped bony and tall and narrow, like a cereal box, with the narrow side to the street, the wide side a wall of windows.

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In the Lower Ninth Ward, for instance, construction workers were on the scene Friday at several odd-shaped, energy-efficient homes going up with funding from a group led by actor Brad Pitt.

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