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“Grandmapreneur” Carmelyn Calvert of Eldred, Ill., is the force behind Square Shooters (squareshooters.com), “an obvious and overdue invention,” in the words of a press release announcing the product. Calvert put a full deck of playing cards, including jokers, onto the 54 faces of nine dice, then came up with ways to use them for card games like poker. It’s “a new game that’s been centuries in the making.”