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Archie McPhee, the company known for creating silly and unconventional amusements, has just created a new item for the holiday season - the inflatable fruitcake. Yes, for $9.50 you can send your family, friends or even yourself a life-size inflatable fruitcake. My favorite part is the Frequently Asked Questions sections of the site, which tells you why fruitcakes are so terrible and how you possibly lived before the inflatable fruitcake was invented.

Now, you may be wondering what exactly a fruitcake has to do with gaming. Good question! First - I’m sure there are some desperate gamers out there who, after receiving that game they’ve wanted for weeks for Christmas decided to pull an all-nighter playing it. After hour 23 of their gaming marathon, their sense of judgment have been impaired and they might have accidentally ingested some of the ornamental family fruitcake. Now, with the inflatable fruitcake, there is no more temptation to actually eat a real one.

Second, the act of giving a fruitcake is a bit of a game in and of itself. Its like playing hot-potato, only with something that could be edible. I for one know that my family has received, and then regifted a fruitcake quite a few times. So with an inflatable fruitcake, you can pass the cake around guilt-free. Never again will you have to worry about someone actually eating it. You could have younger kids play a game of holiday hot-potato with the inflatable fruitcake and some festive music. Or, you could deflate the fruitcake and stick it in an envelope, then have a bunch of extra, empty envelopes. You could work out a variation of Old Maid with it, trying to see who gets stuck with the actual toy cake.

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