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Which came first: Dungeons & Dragons or Where the Wild Things Are?
Where the Wild Things Are came first, in 1963 (published). Dungeons & Dragons followed 11 years later, in 1974 (published).
- Second1974
Dungeons & Dragons
game · publishedDungeons & Dragons was first published in 1974, in a box of three small booklets.
- First1963
Where the Wild Things Are
book · publishedMaurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are came out in 1963 and won the Caldecott Medal the following year.
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