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Minecraft, which innocently started out as a vast open-world block-based game, is probably the closest thing to crack cocaine for kids. Its popularity with the grade school set is likely what helped it become one of the best-selling games of all time, turned the game’s developers, Mojang, into a prime acquisition for Microsoft, and  made its creator a reluctant billionaire. But part of the reason why Minecraft is so great and powerful is that it encourages kids and adults to think beyond play and into construction — developing machines and creating pretty much anything your imagination can dream up. That…

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