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Fold a paper plane, throw it, and catch one somebody launched in another country. Nothing else happens, which is the point.
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Paper Planes sits in Crowd Experiments under Weird, filed as a minute.
About this category: Shared spaces where everyone acts at once. Sometimes it becomes art, usually it becomes a mess, and the mess is the interesting part.
Yes. Paper Planes is free to use and needs no account.
No. You can use Paper Planes without signing up for anything.
Yes — Paper Planes is at its best on a phone.
Yes, we file it as safe for work. It also works muted.
We file it as "A minute": One quick round, then you can leave.
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