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A popular Netflix miniseries has helped game merchants in central Illinois. The Queen s Gambit is about a chess prodigy who comes of age in the Cold War era of the 1950s and 60s. The protagonist, Beth Harmon, overcomes loss, addiction, and a sexist environment to beat the best players in the world.
Jamie Mathy owns Red Raccoon Games in downtown Bloomington. Mathy said he had not heard of the show when the chess set boom began. I didn t even know what was happening. All of a sudden, chess sets, which we hadn t sold in months, just started disappearing off the shelf. All the chess sets were actually picked up and we can t even get those starter sets in, said Mathy.
a-twitter. before noon, the country s national zoo tweets out. we are looking for a missing red panda. wanted the less than-year-old red panda who arrived from a nebraska zoo and only one on display, three weeks ago. officials aren t sure if he was kidnapped or escaped. their inclination is to go up high into a tree. reporter: zoo officials thought rusty was still on zoo grounds. they re looking for him in the trees. good place to look. he is missing. is that what happened last night? yeah. reporter: with the search on. rusty becomes a social media darling. #rusty, #findrusty. do they look like pandas to you? no. they look like a red raccoon. reporter: smart kid. red began red pandas only share a name with giant pandas which are bears. red panda is related to raccoon, skunks and weasels. less than two hours after the first tweet, look who is spotted in someone s yard with the tweet, red panda in our neighborhood. zoo workers rush to the scene and high fives as rusty