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For questions about Ready Player One, a 2011 science fiction novel by Ernest Cline. Questions about the 2018 film adaptation should instead use [ready-player-one-2018].

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In Ready Player One, How do Wade Owen Watts and the other Gunters have enough time to learn ...

Wade Owen Watts is only 18 when Ready Player One takes place. He also attends school. Yet he somehow has enough time to memorize everything in James Halliday's atlas! Not only is he super-amazing at …
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Why is IOI so scared of the feds in Ready Player One?

The book "Ready Player One" portrays a corporate dystopia where the feds have basically no power and no one respects the government. Yet seemingly, IOI, (the company that runs the sixers) while they …
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Do any current-day tech companies still exist in Ready Player One?

In Ready Player One, two huge multinational conglomerates control the internet: GSS and IOI. But are any current-day tech companies still in existence? Do Google, Apple, Facebook, etc, still exist, o …
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In Ready Player One, Why didn't the Sixers empty the Giant Robot Inventory?

In Ready Player One, users that complete the second gate received a choice of a giant Robot: Then something strange happened—something that had never happened when I’d beaten the original game. On …
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Why did James Halliday hide the first key on a planet that seemingly had no connection to him?

In Ready Player One, James Halliday hid all the clues and gates - and nearly all the keys - in Planets which had an obvious connection to his upbringing and hobbies. But one key did not — the copper k …
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In Ready Player One, how was Wade Owen Watts able to complete a perfect game of Pac-Man in h...

In Ready Player One, Wade Owen Watts completes a perfect Pac-Man game to earn the quarter artifact that turns out to be an extra life. Whats amazing about this is that he completes this in his first a …
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