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+# Streak Hunting spreadsheet
+
+This is currently not in a state that you could easily run this.
+If you want to, contact me. Anyway:
+
+In order to run, assumes that you
+- Have the PyHanabi sources available as the `hanabi` module, installed and set up PostgreSQL along with it
+- Have the `endgame-analyzer` executable in the local folder
+- Have the `rust-hanabi` executable in the local folder